Forum rules!

[gaz]

The Fishing4u forum has grown tremendously over the past years and we thank all of you for being a part of this growing community. In order to keep the forum running well and to prevent problems, please follow these simple rules for the forum. 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 of no point to anyone.
Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum, email, visitor messages, blog comments, picture comments and private message systems to spam other members.
We also do not allow posts or links to sites that are sexual in nature or violate Fishing4u community standards. The Fishing4u 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 fishing 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.
Posts arguing about company policies are not allowed. You can email or pm ADMIN if you have issue with company policies.
Posts discussing moderator actions are also not allowed.
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.
We also reserve the right to ban anyone who wilfully violates the forum rules, as access to our forum are a privilege and not a right.

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 related products, services that our sponsors Menai Angling are already involved in. Explicit advertising and solicitating in signatures is also prohibited if it effects our sponsor.

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 Menai Angling.
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 Fishing4u community standards. The Fishing4u 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.




General Chat forum

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



Please do not post suspected abuse of any of the above on these forums. If you suspect abuse of any of the above, then please email the full details abuseof@fishing4u.co.uk

All information sent to this address will be checked through our database and will be investigated. The name of the person submitting the report will always remain confidential.

We will be unable to respond to you with an outcome, or our actions, for privacy reasons.

Third-Party Disputes

We will not mediate third-party disputes Any such threads will be closed and moved to the trash can.

Moderation

Although the administrators and moderators of the Fishing4u Forum will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this forum, it is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages express the views of the author, and neither the owners of the Fishing4u Forum, FISHING4U Ltd. (The sponsor of this forum) will be held responsible for the content of any message.

By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violate any laws.

The owners of the Fishing4u Forum reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.

Staff Disputes

Any disputes with the staff of the Fishing4u Forum will be handled in private through the Private Message System. If you wish to escalate any issue with staff then please email: Admin@fishing4u.co.uk.

Addendum

We reserve the right to update and modify these rules as the needs of the community dictate to ensure the smooth operation of this fishing community.