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As
a user of the EdwardsvilleOnline.com Bulletin Boards,
please follow the rules and guidelines below.
Responsibilities
and rights
Please understand that what you read on our bulletin boards
and other community areas is other users' opinions. We
hope that you'll find information that is helpful and
informative; however, EdwardsvilleOnline.com is not responsible
for the accuracy of any posts and is not liable for any
damage or loss that may result from your reliance on what
other users have said.
You
acknowledge that all EdwardsvilleOnline.com communications,
including bulletin board posts, are public and not private
communications. You grant EdwardsvilleOnline.com the right
to modify and publish, both on our site and in other media,
any information you post in our community areas.
You
agree that EdwardsvilleOnline.com has the right to delete
any post and terminate any account (that is, ban a user)
with or without notice, at any time and for any reason,
including, without limitation, our judgment that you've
violated our Rules & Guidelines. You also acknowledge
that we have no obligation to delete content that you
find personally objectionable or offensive.
Privacy
Never provide your password, telephone numbers, or home
address to anyone online. Be very careful about responding
to solicitations for interviews or research. Give out
your e-mail address only if you want to receive e-mail.
If you post your e-mail address on the bulletin boards,
you've made it public and given other users tacit permission
to contact you.
Never
divulge private information about another user online.
That includes the user's real name, e-mail address, and
any other personal information that the user has not made
public. Don't forward or post private messages that someone
has sent you unless you have his or her permission. Only
send e-mail to another EdwardsvilleOnline.com member if
they have given you permission. Please don't solicit other
people's personal information.
Copyrights
Please don't post anything you don't have the right to
publish or violate any copyright or other proprietary
rights in your posts. That includes excerpting published
articles without the author's permission. We'll delete
posts that contain any such violations.
Screen
names
Choose a screen name that's in good taste. If you select
a screen name we deem vulgar or obscene or misrepresents
you to other users, we'll reject your choice. Anyone who
tries to impersonate an EdwardsvilleOnline.com staff member,
writer, expert, host, or another user will be banned immediately
and without notice.
Basic
etiquette
Please don't do any of the following:
- Use
all capital letters in your bulletin board postings.
It's considered "shouting" online, makes other
members uncomfortable, and is difficult to read.
- Post
the same message more than once on a bulletin board
or on multiple boards.
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Transfer issues or posts from one bulletin board to
another. Don't quote someone else's post from another
board without that person's permission. A lot of misunderstanding
and hurt can ensue when a post from one place is taken
out of context and shared with others. Please don't
direct people to controversial or problematic threads
on other boards.
Unacceptable
language
Please don't post anything obscene, vulgar, illegal (including
viruses), harmful, insulting, threatening, abusive, harassing,
defamatory, libelous, or invasive of someone else's privacy.
We won't tolerate hateful communications — especially
those targeting race, gender, age, sexual orientation,
religion, national origin, weight, or disability. Using
asterisks or other symbols instead of the actual letters
in an offensive word is not okay if most people can still
tell what you're saying. If you're not sure which words
are forbidden, send an e-mail to us at comments@EdwardsvilleOnline.com
with your question.
Personal
attacks
Harassing another community member is never acceptable,
even on the most lively debate boards. A personal attack
includes name-calling, mocking a user or a user's name
or family members, using threatening or insulting language,
or violating another user's privacy. Exercise some common
sense here. If you wouldn't have the nerve to say it in
person, don't post it. If you can't draw the line, we'll
draw it for you, but we'd rather not have to.
Advertising
and solicitations
Don't use any community areas to advertise or sell products
or services to others without explicit permission from
EdwardsvilleOnline.com.
- Please
don't post any advertising, promotional materials, junkmail,
"spam," chain letters, pyramid schemes, or
any other form of solicitation. You may post about legal
financial opportunities and job leads on our "Classifieds"
bulletin board.
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Please don't sell, give away, or ask for prescription
drugs on our bulletin boards — it's illegal.
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Please don't solicit subjects for interviews or participants
for studies without the express permission of EdwardsvilleOnline.com.
Mentioning
other Web sites
It's perfectly okay to mention or discuss other websites
that are of interest to our users, as long as they don't
violate our other guidelines; however, we'll delete posts
that, in our judgment, mention or link to our competitors
for the sole purpose of encouraging our users to participate
elsewhere.
Contacting
us
We are only an e-mail away if you have any concerns you'd
like us to address. comments@EdwardsvilleOnline.com
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