In order to keep Talking-Soccer running well and to prevent problems, please follow these simple rules for the forums here. If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to contact one of the Staff Members.
General Rules:
- While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters.
- We will NOT tolerate the use of personal names at any time unless the statements is a fact, published from a legitimate source that can be verified. Our decision is final in these matters as well.
- Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.
- Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.
- Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum email and Private message system to spam other members.
- Please wait a reasonable amount of time before bumping posts. For style changes and general 'how-to' questions this should be 24 hours. For specific troubleshooting issues, use 12 hours as a guideline.
- We also do not allow posts that are sexual in nature or violate Talking-Soccer community standards. The Talking-Soccer team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.
- Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed.
- Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
- While we are quite happy to have constructive comparative conversations about competitor's forums, we will not tolerate blatant adverts or the sort of 'ooh look, yet another bulletin board' threads. Also, we would appreciate it if you refrain from blatant bashing of other boards.
- We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
- If you are going to post non-English on these forums, please also post an English Translation of your post.
- Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.
- You cannot post any affiliate or referral links, or post anything asking for a referral. Such posts will be subject to removal.
- You cannot post advertisements or notices for contests.
- We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules, as access to our forums are a privilege and not a right.
Any threads/posts of these types will be deleted.
Advertising Services
We do not allow people to post threads or to send private messages or emails to users here that advertise or solicit any products or services. Explicit advertising and solicitating in sigs is also prohibited.
Links in Sigs
Links in signatures must follow these guidelines:
- Linking to a commercial product/service is fine, provided it is not a product or service that competes with Talking-Soccer and it doesn't violate any of the other rules.
- Promotional text for a commercial product or service is ok, provided there are no price(s) of product(s) or service(s) listed.
- A link and promotional text for a site that is not commercial and does not contain product(s) and/or service(s) is allowed, provided the site is not sexual or does not violate Talking-Soccer community standards. The Talking-Soccer team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards. (Examples include sites about drugs and/or sex.)
- Duplicate links to the same URL in a sig are not allowed.
Avatars
Avatars are allowed provided they meet all the rules and guidelines.
- Avatars are allowed for registered users. Once you register, you will have access to several pre-loaded avatars to choose from.
- As a registered user, you also have the ability to use off site avatars.
Signature Size Limits
All signatures should not exceed the following size limits, and you can't have both text and images
- For text signatures: 4 lines normal size, 8 lines small size and up to 90 chars per line. (Blank lines count as lines.)
- Do not use images with large text to bypass the previous item
- For images in signatures: 1 image up to 300 pixels wide, 125 pixels tall and 20k in size.
Reporting Violations
We have a very limited volunteer staff to police Talking-Soccer. If you notice a violation of any rules, please feel free to notify the staff by sending a (PM) Private Message or Email. Email and PM buttons are underneath each staff/Admin member's post.
- When reporting a violation or removal request, please submit the link from your browser to the exact post.
- Please include a copy of text from the offending post/request that you feel violates the rules and give an exact description on where it's located.
Technical Problems
If you are experiencing technical problems with the site, please repor them to: TalkingSoccerAdmin@gmail.com and include the following:
- Detailed Description of the error
- Location of the error if possible and a re-creation of the steps you took to generate the error
- List your Operating Version (ie: Windows XP, Mac, Linux), the browser you use (ie: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape) your Internet Service Provider (ie: AOL, Verizon, Bright House, Comcast)
You were BANNED!
Before we issue a Ban, we usually give warnings. However, if it's a blatent disregard and/or malacious violation of the rules, we reserve the right to ban at any time without warning.
- Initial BAN's are for 48 hours from the time of the Ban and will increase for each violation all the way to a permanent ban.
- If it says you were Banned and you didn't do anything, then please go to http://www.ipchicken.com and copy all the information that shows up and send it to TalkingSoccerAdmin@gmail.com
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