1. Harassment - Members can be reported for harassment if they continue communicating to an individual who has requested another party to cease any and all lines of communication. We take user harassment reports very seriously, strict punishment may be dealt to accounts engaging in harassment.
2. Discrimination - If you feel you have been discriminated against, please report the incident to the The Lower World staff and we will investigate the matter quickly. We take complaints of discrimination seriously.
3. Forum courtesy - Please treat staff, volunteers, fellow community members, and guests on these boards with courtesy and respect. Whether a community member has one post or 5,000 posts, they should be treated fairly.
4. Personal attacks and inflammatory behavior will not be tolerated. If you want to praise or criticize, give examples as to why it is good or bad. General attacks on a person or idea will not be tolerated.
5. Keep on topic - Responses to a particular thread should be on-topic and pertain to the discussion. Users should use the New Topic button to start a new discussion which would otherwise be off-topic in the current thread. Threads that veer off topic may be closed by a moderator.
6. Private discussions - Sometimes, a discussion thread strays off into a friendly dialogue or a heated debate among a very small number of users. For these exchanges, we ask that you please use the Private Message feature that is provided through the forums. Public forum posts should be reserved for matters of interest to the general community.
7. Spam - Posting the same message, or an unsolicited commercial message, to one or many topics or boards is considered spam. Duplicate messages may be deleted or consolidated by our moderators. Please do your best to post new topics to the appropriate forum board. Moderators can take action when a thread should be moved to a more appropriate section.
8. Any messages you post in these discussion forums will remain available to the public for as long as this forum is online. Once you have posted your message, it will stay online. Please post carefully and with due consideration to the content of your post. We will not edit the content you wrote unless it does not conform to the forum guidelines.
9. If someone has posted copyrighted material or otherwise illegal material, please notify the Administrator or Staff Member so that we may take appropriate action.
10. Abuse of this forum will be not be tolerated. Staff reserves the right to suspend or delete any account which it believes is detrimental to the board or it's users in any way, and you may or may not receive prior warning.
11. The Chat box is for friendly chat only, inflammatory discussions such as political or controversial topics should be taken elsewhere.
12. Cyber stalking is not and will not be permitted in any form. If we have reason to suspect you we will ban your account immediately and permanently, no questions asked. No one has the right to post here it is a privilege granted by us and your continued use of this board is at our sole discretion.
2. Discrimination - If you feel you have been discriminated against, please report the incident to the The Lower World staff and we will investigate the matter quickly. We take complaints of discrimination seriously.
3. Forum courtesy - Please treat staff, volunteers, fellow community members, and guests on these boards with courtesy and respect. Whether a community member has one post or 5,000 posts, they should be treated fairly.
4. Personal attacks and inflammatory behavior will not be tolerated. If you want to praise or criticize, give examples as to why it is good or bad. General attacks on a person or idea will not be tolerated.
5. Keep on topic - Responses to a particular thread should be on-topic and pertain to the discussion. Users should use the New Topic button to start a new discussion which would otherwise be off-topic in the current thread. Threads that veer off topic may be closed by a moderator.
6. Private discussions - Sometimes, a discussion thread strays off into a friendly dialogue or a heated debate among a very small number of users. For these exchanges, we ask that you please use the Private Message feature that is provided through the forums. Public forum posts should be reserved for matters of interest to the general community.
7. Spam - Posting the same message, or an unsolicited commercial message, to one or many topics or boards is considered spam. Duplicate messages may be deleted or consolidated by our moderators. Please do your best to post new topics to the appropriate forum board. Moderators can take action when a thread should be moved to a more appropriate section.
8. Any messages you post in these discussion forums will remain available to the public for as long as this forum is online. Once you have posted your message, it will stay online. Please post carefully and with due consideration to the content of your post. We will not edit the content you wrote unless it does not conform to the forum guidelines.
9. If someone has posted copyrighted material or otherwise illegal material, please notify the Administrator or Staff Member so that we may take appropriate action.
10. Abuse of this forum will be not be tolerated. Staff reserves the right to suspend or delete any account which it believes is detrimental to the board or it's users in any way, and you may or may not receive prior warning.
11. The Chat box is for friendly chat only, inflammatory discussions such as political or controversial topics should be taken elsewhere.
12. Cyber stalking is not and will not be permitted in any form. If we have reason to suspect you we will ban your account immediately and permanently, no questions asked. No one has the right to post here it is a privilege granted by us and your continued use of this board is at our sole discretion.