Forum Rules

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Forum rules

In general, posts will be removed which:

Are racist, sexist, homophobic, sexually explicit, abusive or otherwise objectionable, or,

Contain swear words or other language likely to offend, or,

Break the law, condone or encourage unlawful activity. This includes breach of copyright, defamation and contempt of court, or,

Advertise products and services for profit, or,

Are seen to impersonate someone else, or,

Are being repeatedly posted (known as "spam")

Keep your contributions civil, tasteful and relevant. Please:

• No defamatory comments. A defamatory comment is one that is capable of damaging the reputation of a person or organisation. If successfully sued you could be held liable for considerable damages and costs.

• Avoid contempt of court which means not posting anything that risks prejudicing on-going or forthcoming court proceedings.

• Do not incite people to commit any crime, including incitement of racial hatred.

• Avoid breaking a court injunction (for example, naming an individual or speculating as to their current whereabouts after a court has issued an injunction against doing so).

• Do not post content which you've copied from someone else and don't own the copyright.

• Do not post messages that are unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, homophobic or racially offensive.

• Do not make multiple postings. So that we can publish comments from as many different people as possible, participants should keep their number of contributions per debate to a reasonable level. Multiple posts discourages many others who might otherwise wish to take part.

• Although breaking one of the house rules below is less likely to land you in court, the rules are still important for your own safety, the safety of others and to avoid causing offence. Violation of these rules may result in suspension of your membership.

• No swearing. People of all ages read and contribute to BCW Forums. Please don't use profanities or other words which might offend them. Asterisks (****) is swearing.

• No spamming or flooding. Don't repost the same message, or very similar messages, more than once.

• No personal information. If you post your own personal contact details be aware of the risks involved. It is not acceptable to publicise anyone else's contact details including address, place of employment, name of educational establishment, telephone or mobile number, email address, etc, and such posts will be removed.

• Keep your posts relevant. Each Topic debate is about a particular story or issue. Posts which aren't relevant lower the value of the debate for everyone may be removed.

• No advertising, promotion of products or services.

• Post in English only except in foreign language topics. Posts containing languages other than English may be removed. Common greetings and salutations in languages other than English may be acceptable.

• No capital letters. This is internet shorthand for raising your voice. You can make your point perfectly well in lower case so please take the caps lock off.

• No impersonating. Impersonating someone (including other members) is unacceptable.

• No inappropriate usernames (vulgar, offensive, etc).

Complaints system: If you want to complain about a posting you should email the Moderator explaining the grounds of your complaint. The Moderator will form a judgement based on the principles above and may delete, alter postings or take any other action she/he thinks appropriate.

Copyright: You must own the copyright to material quoted, used or displayed in your postings and, by submitting it, grant licence to BCW Forum to use this material for any purposes in perpetuity.

Liability: BCW Forum does not endorse, support or necessarily agree with statements, expressions and opinions of forum users which remain those of the Forum user who, by using BCW Forums, agrees to these rules and agrees to indemnify BCW Forums from association with the content of user’s posting. You also agree to your details being stored in a BCW Forum database the safety of which we guarantee except where hacking results in the database being compromised.