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Forum Rules and Regulations; How to keep the forum running smoothe
Topic Started: Apr 19 2007, 02:18 PM (87 Views)
Cindy
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All members should read and obey the following rules and guidelines of this forum.

The aim of The Write Zone Forum is everything writing, and we want everything to run
as smoothly as possible. That means getting along with each other. Please remember that some writing rules are writ in stone, but others depend on instructor, agent, and editor opinion. There will be arguments from time to time about these points, and that is fine, as long as it does not get nasty and otherwise out of control.

UPDATE: Beginning June 27, 2007, all new members will have their topics and replies put on moderation queue. This means that if you are new to The Zone, all your topics and posts will have to be approved by the moderator or an administrator before it goes live on the forum. This is to weed out spammers. The length of mod queue is at the administrators discretion. It may also be waived under certain circumstances.


Attitudes Towards Fellow Members

*Please Do...

*Be respectful

*Be polite.

*Offer and provide help to other members


Please Do Not...

*Insult or provoke, in any way, shape, or fashion, other members.

*Share another member's secrets or otherwise gossip.

*Racial, gay, sexist, religious et al slurs will not be tolerated.


General Posting Regulations

Please Do

*Set up an avatar and signature with whatever appropriate image you wish.

*Post your opinions with polite candor.

*Use correct grammar and punctuation

*Submit new topics in the correct forum platform.

*Be interactive; your brain is appreciated here.

*If you need help, just PM an administrator

*If you see a nasty topic, image, reply, click on the Report button; that's what it's there for.

*Do not use that Report button loosely. In other words, don't report someone because you don't agree with their opinion. Use it to Report nasty topics or replies.

*Do use the Private Message application to speak privately with any member.


Please Do Not

*No post hogging. If you don't have anything constructive to add, don't add anything. In other words, don't post just to increase your post number.

*Use the emotions, but do not use them without a text comment unless an emotion says it all.

*Do not post your own file images in the education forums, but feel free to do so in The Speak Easy and Forum Buzz.

*Don't steer off topic.

*No SPAM. You may use your signature to display your web site banner, even if it's not about writing.

*No hooking up. No sex talk. No porn pics or links to them. This is not a lonely hearts forum.

*Do not disrespect any published author. It's ok to voice your opinion of their work, but do so constructively and respectively.

*Do not open closed topics.

*Do not hack into other member accounts.

*Do not create more than one account.


Anyone who breaks these rules, depending on the severity, will be warned or instantly banned from this forum. Any warning or banning for any broken rule is at the administrator’s discretion.

*First warning is informal. You will receive a PM notification.

*Next time, you will get an official light warning.

*Three official light warnings equal a hard warning.

*Three hard warnings and you are banned for a month.

*A ban and a fourth discrepancy and you are banned forever.
*An administrator may ban instantly, without a rack of hard warning, and without notice.


Submitting Your Work to the Poison Pen

The submission area is by password only. The password will will be given to to members at my discretion or to Advanced Members only--those who reach 100 posts, provided you have no warnings against you. One reason for this policy is that many people will join up, make a few posts, and disappear.


Don't let these rules discourage you! They are included to keep trolls from causing trouble.
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