Forum Rules

[admin]

CitrusNorth has grown tremendously over the last 6 months and we thank all of you for being a part of this growing community.

In order to keep the forums 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.
• 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 [Only Registered Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] 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 CitrusNorth community standards. The CitrusNorth 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 products, 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 wilfully violates the forum rules, as access to our support forums are a privilege and not a right. A banned customer is still entitled to support from the support system.

Any threads/posts of these types will be deleted.

Advertising Services and Solicitation

We do not allow people to post threads or to send private messages or emails to users here that advertise or solicit any products, services, funds or donations. Explicit advertising and solicitating in signatures 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 a product or service offered by CitrusNorth and it is not an affiliate program link for CitrusNorth or any other affiliate program.
• 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 CitrusNorths community standards. The CitrusNorth 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 signature are not allowed.

Avatars

Animated avatars are not allowed. Sorry.

Avatars that may be confused with official staff avatars are not allowed.

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. Font sizes above 2 are not allowed. (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
• Animated images in a signature are not allowed

We also have some rules that apply for certain forums:


Chit Chat forum

The Chit Chat forum is where CitrusNorth members and fans can gather to chat about almost anything, technical or non-technical in nature. If you have a question that doesn't fit into any other forum, or just want to chat, this is the place.



Thanks!

[Citrus Joe]

The rules and guidlines that you've posted seem reasonable to me. I suppose that with the incredible growth that CN has enjoyed...some problems would come with that. It appears that CN is healty and growing, thanks to the input, knowledge and willinginess of members to share with one another and with the help, patience and support of adminstration.

[Terry]

I am not up on a lot of things. Especially on-line things.
So, what is Spamming and Avatars that I'm not supposed to do.
Terry

[gardner_dragon]

Spamming is using the forum for personal gain. If you have a business website and you post links to said site, asking members to come visit is spamming. Advertising is spamming.

Asking members to visit your albums on photobucket or other imaging sites is NOT spamming.

Click throughs are spam.

Avatars are the pictures by your member name and/or in your signature.
HTH
Andi

[admin]

Terry.... Spamming is what mostly all forum sites deal with on a day to day basis.

This is mostly do from people and Bots that sign up on a forum and start advertising a product such as "Win a free trip" or " Earn $1000.00 Today"

We don't get many of these spammers from members do to the fact they are closely watch by our team. and are removed by banning or removing them.

CN has a list of approx. 175 emails that is to be considered spam on our site. At times not offen we will get a guest wishing to sign up only to find the email has been blocked and we will make a correction.

Another type of spam is when a member signs up only to promote his or hers web site.

We do promote web sites as long as they are not in direct competition with CN. In some cases a link is established between sites. This is done by the owners.


Avatars..


Avatars are fine.. we would like to see more members using them. The only ones we disapprove of is the animated avatars these take up to much valued web space.

I hope this helps a bit. Dale