The Boards Chat Room Rules of Conduct

CHAT RULES

Please note that advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are grounds for banning and I.S.P. notification in these Chat Rooms.

Important Note:
From time to time these rules may be changed and or updated without warning. It is your duty as a chatter to know these rules and heed them. Ignorance of the rules does not excuse your behavior and you can and will be banned if the need arises. Bypassing these rules through a bookmark will not give you any legal reason to not follow these rules or any rules, which may get updated at any time. You have been duly warned.

Chat Room conduct should be guided by common sense & basic etiquette. You will be considered in violation of the Chat Room Rules of Conduct if you (or others using your web access) do any of the following:

1. Post, promote, or distribute content that is illegal.

2. Harass, threaten, embarrass, or do anything else to another chatter that is unwanted. This means: don’t say bad things about them; don’t attack their character, race, heritage, etc. If you disagree with someone, respond to the subject, not the person.

3. Transmit or facilitate distribution of content that is harmful, abusive, racially or ethnically offensive, vulgar, sexually explicit, or in a reasonable person’s view, objectionable. Community standards may vary, but there is no place in these rooms where hate speech is tolerated.

4. Disrupt the flow of chat in chat rooms with vulgar language, abusiveness, hitting the return key repeatedly or inputting large streams of text so the screen goes by too fast to read, etc. This is online vandalism, and it ruins the experience for others.

5. Pretend to be anyone whom you are not. You may not impersonate another chatter, an After The League® moderator, or an After The League® employee.

6. The discussion of illegal activities.

Foul language, will not be tolerated unless all letters of the word are replaced by substitute characters. Example ($#!^ is acceptable. Sh!t is not. In no way should there EVER be letters or numbers used.) Also prolific foul language use, such as #*()$% ^!*()# *^() it all to #@**, will not be tolerated either, regardless of covering up the entire word.

8. Anyone caught posting links about or otherwise sharing files of copywritten works belonging to Walt Fredericks Enterprises or any other company, that are not freely offered by that company, will be immediately banned from our chat rooms! This includes discussing file sharing programs where such materials may be obtained. No Questions Asked! This is an illegal activity and will not be tolerated!

9. No part of Walter Fredericks Enterprise books may be reproduced in part or whole, in any form or by any means, without permission from the publisher, except for brief quotes for use in reviews. This means you may not ask to have rules posted or stats posted just because you don’t own the book. If you want that info buy the book. You can post the rule from a book in answer to a question, but please be brief or paraphrase the rule. Do not post entire books or book pages. If someone is asking where a rule can be found it is preferred that you post the book title, page number, and where on that page the information can be found, rather than quoting it out of the book.

How breaking the rules will be handled.

1st Offense: You will be spoken to in public and asked to stop your actions.

2nd Offense: You will be kicked from the server. The chat will inform you of this as well as why. Breaking the rules again will result in a ban for length to be determined by After The League Productions® and/or the Moderator.

3rd Offense: You will be kicked and banned from the server. Not allowed back in until your ban is lifted.

The 3rd Offense violations will be reported to After The League executive board. You will then be banned from the chat rooms for a time defined by the Moderator. You may also be banned from the Forums to keep you from spamming them with complaints about getting banned. After sufficient time you will be allowed back on to the forums. But not the Chat Rooms. Allowance back into the chat rooms is left to the sole discretion of After The League® and/or the Moderator.

Although the above guidelines are generally followed, Chat Room Moderators reserve the right to ban chatters at their discretion.

Attention! This is to inform you that all chat rooms and the conversations held there in are logged. They are stored for follow-up on problem chatters. The logs are written to 7 days a week 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

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