www.wcfireems.com/forums

The forums have 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 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

• The forum will be maintained to a minimum rating of PG-13.  Any material that is believed to violate this will be removed and other appropriate action will be taken.
• 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 trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum, email, visitor messages, blog comments, picture comments and private message systems 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 or links to sites that are sexual in nature or violate community standards. The management 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 edit, alter, or remove offensive posts without notice.
• English is the only language allowed on this board, anything posted in any other language with out a translation will be deleted and or moderated.
• 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 not related to the subject matter of the board.
• Support tickets should be considered to be confidential information. Support tickets posted in the forums will be deleted.
• We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully 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.

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 solicitation in signatures is also prohibited.

You should never disclose server logins and/or passwords to anyone, administrators do not need them to work on your account. We can not take responsibility if you disclose this information to anyone.

Links in signatures must follow these guidelines

• Linking to a commercial product/service is fine, provided it is not a product or service that is not in agreement to the purpose of the board.
• 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 community standards. The management 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.

Items for Sale

We allow people to post that are looking to sell or buy items related to the purpose of the board. This is at the sole risk of the parties offering and purchasing the items, any advertisement for items not related to the purpose of the board will be removed.

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 we 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.

Moderation:

Although the administrators and moderators 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 board or their licensees, administrators, moderators or associated staff 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 volatile of any laws.

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

Administrators

Administrators have the power to not only moderate the forums, but they have control over the accounts that members have.  Administrators have the access to make changes to members accounts and groups.

Moderators

Moderators have the responsibility of being the main control over the flow of information within the forums.  The can control the posts and make changes to them, and remove them if needed.  They can also lock and move posts as needed to perform their duties.

Staff Disputes

The following jobs on the forum are considered to be staff members:

• Administrators
• Moderators

Any disputes with the staff of the forums will be handled in private through email.  If you wish to escalate any issue with the staff then please contact: webmaster@wcfireems.com

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 community.