Forum Rules and Etiquette
We ask you to keep the conversation civil, and in good taste. Please refrain from using vulgar language, personal attacks, racial, ethnic, or ***ual innuendos. We have different age groups that visit this site, so keep this in mind when posting.
You are free to disagree with others, but if you stoop to personal abuse or attacks, your post(s) will be deleted. If you are insulted by a post, please report the post, but PLEASE DO NOT retaliate.
Advertising or promoting any product or service on any of our bulletin boards is prohibited, unless you have permission by @Chatmaster. We want to be fair to those who sponsor this site through advertising.
Illegal suggestions/material - Respect the copyrights of other people, websites, software and printed media. Please no pointers, how-to's, advocating any illegal activity.
Inappropriate language - This forums is a 13+ forum. Anything of sexual nature should not be discussed in the open forum. They will be removed and warned. There are certain forum sections that is adult only, appropriate conversation should be done there.
Questionable content - Some content issues are left to the discretion of the individual moderators, but may include any material that is knowingly false and/or defamatory, misleading, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, ***ually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, that otherwise violates any law, or that encourages conduct constituting a criminal offense.
Personal Info - Do not post personal information such as email addresses or telephone numbers.
User photos - You may not post photos of any other person without their permission. If someone is using your picture, please private message a Universal forum moderator or @Chatmaster
Impersonating/accessing another user's account - You may not impersonate another board member or create an account specifically for the purpose of provoking other users. Also, accessing or using someone else's account or attempting to access another poster's account is strictly prohibited. This will not be tolerated and you will be banned.
Post in the appropriate forum - Please read each forum description before posting to ensure you are posting in the correct forum. Off topic posts will be moved to the correct forum.
No duplicate or repeat posts - If no-one answers your question or responds to your post. Posting the same question over and over or in every forum will just annoy people and will not get answers.
Profanity - Keep offensive language to a minimum. While we might let you get away with anything you might hear on network television or radio, don't go overboard.
Obscene material - No posting of ****ographic material or links to it.
Flaming, Bashing, and Trolling - Hate posts and personal attacks will not be tolerated on the Forums, as is posting topics specifically to provoke a negative response from someone (AKA trolling).
Spam - Purposely spamming a message board with senseless, vacuous, or empty messages is highly frowned upon, unless posting in Everything else forums where spam is allowed .
Links to other websites - Links are not allowed in threads. Personal links to your website or websites you are affiliated with are NOT allowed. It will be deleted.
Signatures - No posting of ****ographic material or links. No links allowed in signatures including images that are clickable links.
Links that promote chat avenues chat rooms or forum are allowed. Sites being promoted are not allowed unless given permission from Chatmaster . Those continually breaking the rules will be banned for 7 days. Repeat offenders will be banned permanently. Bottom line no websites allowed.
Moderator Requests - Do not post any requests to become a chat moderator. Please PM or email the appropriate chat room admins. A list can be found on here Want to be a mod?
Flashing GIFs are not, under no cir***stances, to be used in signatures or posts. This can be dangerous to some users with Photo Sensitive Epilepsy and can cause serious harm.
User Accounts - You may only have one account on these forums. All users discovered to have multiple accounts will have at least one of their accounts deleted or banned.
Posting is a privilege That can and will be revoked for anyone violating the rules of common sense and decorum.
Failure to comply with the above rules repeatedly will result in the immediate banning of that individual user.
While it is virtually impossible for us to review messages or confirm the validity of information posted, we try to monitor the contents of messages that are posted. We are not responsible for any false information or inappropriate comments and we do not vouch for the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message. The messages express the views of the author of the message and that author alone, not necessarily the views of #1 Chat Avenue or anyone else associated with us. Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact an administrator or moderator immediately by email or private message or by reporting the post. We have the ability to remove questionable or inappropriate messages and we reserve the right to delete any message for any reason whatsoever. If we determine that removal of a message is necessary, we will make every effort to remove that message as soon as possible. However, please realize that we may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately.
Anyone that asks for your username and password is not to be trusted. Chatmaster will not ask for that info.. nor will the forum admin so please do not give out your info
Visitor Messages - Please take note that ALL visitor messages will possibly be deleted at certain intervals. If there are important messages to be sent, please send them via Private Message.
The Most Important Rule of All is to have fun!
We ask you to keep the conversation civil, and in good taste. Please refrain from using vulgar language, personal attacks, racial, ethnic, or ***ual innuendos. We have different age groups that visit this site, so keep this in mind when posting.
You are free to disagree with others, but if you stoop to personal abuse or attacks, your post(s) will be deleted. If you are insulted by a post, please report the post, but PLEASE DO NOT retaliate.
Advertising or promoting any product or service on any of our bulletin boards is prohibited, unless you have permission by @Chatmaster. We want to be fair to those who sponsor this site through advertising.
Illegal suggestions/material - Respect the copyrights of other people, websites, software and printed media. Please no pointers, how-to's, advocating any illegal activity.
Inappropriate language - This forums is a 13+ forum. Anything of sexual nature should not be discussed in the open forum. They will be removed and warned. There are certain forum sections that is adult only, appropriate conversation should be done there.
Questionable content - Some content issues are left to the discretion of the individual moderators, but may include any material that is knowingly false and/or defamatory, misleading, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, ***ually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, that otherwise violates any law, or that encourages conduct constituting a criminal offense.
Personal Info - Do not post personal information such as email addresses or telephone numbers.
User photos - You may not post photos of any other person without their permission. If someone is using your picture, please private message a Universal forum moderator or @Chatmaster
Impersonating/accessing another user's account - You may not impersonate another board member or create an account specifically for the purpose of provoking other users. Also, accessing or using someone else's account or attempting to access another poster's account is strictly prohibited. This will not be tolerated and you will be banned.
Post in the appropriate forum - Please read each forum description before posting to ensure you are posting in the correct forum. Off topic posts will be moved to the correct forum.
No duplicate or repeat posts - If no-one answers your question or responds to your post. Posting the same question over and over or in every forum will just annoy people and will not get answers.
Profanity - Keep offensive language to a minimum. While we might let you get away with anything you might hear on network television or radio, don't go overboard.
Obscene material - No posting of ****ographic material or links to it.
Flaming, Bashing, and Trolling - Hate posts and personal attacks will not be tolerated on the Forums, as is posting topics specifically to provoke a negative response from someone (AKA trolling).
Spam - Purposely spamming a message board with senseless, vacuous, or empty messages is highly frowned upon, unless posting in Everything else forums where spam is allowed .
Links to other websites - Links are not allowed in threads. Personal links to your website or websites you are affiliated with are NOT allowed. It will be deleted.
Signatures - No posting of ****ographic material or links. No links allowed in signatures including images that are clickable links.
Links that promote chat avenues chat rooms or forum are allowed. Sites being promoted are not allowed unless given permission from Chatmaster . Those continually breaking the rules will be banned for 7 days. Repeat offenders will be banned permanently. Bottom line no websites allowed.
Moderator Requests - Do not post any requests to become a chat moderator. Please PM or email the appropriate chat room admins. A list can be found on here Want to be a mod?
Flashing GIFs are not, under no cir***stances, to be used in signatures or posts. This can be dangerous to some users with Photo Sensitive Epilepsy and can cause serious harm.
User Accounts - You may only have one account on these forums. All users discovered to have multiple accounts will have at least one of their accounts deleted or banned.
Posting is a privilege That can and will be revoked for anyone violating the rules of common sense and decorum.
Failure to comply with the above rules repeatedly will result in the immediate banning of that individual user.
While it is virtually impossible for us to review messages or confirm the validity of information posted, we try to monitor the contents of messages that are posted. We are not responsible for any false information or inappropriate comments and we do not vouch for the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message. The messages express the views of the author of the message and that author alone, not necessarily the views of #1 Chat Avenue or anyone else associated with us. Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact an administrator or moderator immediately by email or private message or by reporting the post. We have the ability to remove questionable or inappropriate messages and we reserve the right to delete any message for any reason whatsoever. If we determine that removal of a message is necessary, we will make every effort to remove that message as soon as possible. However, please realize that we may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately.
Anyone that asks for your username and password is not to be trusted. Chatmaster will not ask for that info.. nor will the forum admin so please do not give out your info
Visitor Messages - Please take note that ALL visitor messages will possibly be deleted at certain intervals. If there are important messages to be sent, please send them via Private Message.
The Most Important Rule of All is to have fun!
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