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Forum Guidelines
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Our General Principles
We expect that all members of The Sportbikes Website will behave in a way that’s
conducive to the diversity, intelligence and respectfulness of the community.
Each of these three general principles is fundamental to the quality of our
site.
Diversity... We’re a community of sportbike
eenthusiast, from
different backgrounds and with different perspectives on life. At all times, we
expect our members to understand that. This forum consists of many members from
around the globe and for whom English may not be their first language; Please
take this into consideration when reading, posting or replying to posts as
misunderstandings can often occur. Similarly, please use your discretion and be
sensitive to the feelings of other members who may be from a diverse range of
cultures and socio-economic groups......what may be appropriate or acceptable
terminology or behavior in one culture or society, may have an entirely
different meaning or sensitivity to another. The forum Administrators or
Moderators may delete or edit any posts which they consider as being
insensitive, unsuitable or inappropriate. At all times, their decision is final.
Intelligence... We’re a community with quality standards and expect our
members will make a sincere effort to contribute their thoughts on interesting
subjects in a meaningful and respectful manner. Posting messages and otherwise
interacting on The Sportbikes Website is completely optional; many members often
prefer to just read what others have to say. But if you do post, we expect that
you’ll post meaningfully.
Respectfulness... We expect our member to show respect for others.
Respecting their person, their views, their time and their opinions ... even if
you disagree with them.
Basic Guidelines
The following seven categories of online conduct are unacceptable on The Sportbikes Website and constitute a violation of our Community Standards which may
result in warning, suspension or loss of membership:
Harrassment... Harassment occurs when a member insults, attacks,
threatens, and/or denigrates another member at any time. We have zero tolerance
for taking an argument about a any topic to a personal level. For instance, the
use of terms such as "idiot, moron, stupid" and other derogatory terms
constitutes harassment. Repeated critical and sharply negative posts toward a
forum member can also constitute harassment. In other words, no flaming other
members (this means no slander of any kind will be tolerated).
Disruption...Posts which intend to disrupt the topic of conversation or
steer the topic away from the focus of the forum and related news. Disruption
can include harassment, multiple posting of the same post and posting completely
off topic messages.
Vulgarity and Sexual Explicitness...As a community with a diverse variety
of members and readers, we ask that our members post without using vulgarity.
Vulgarity not only includes vulgar language and
pictures but also sexist, racist, anti-religious and homophobic language which
may offend other members. In addition, the "masking" of vulgarity by
inserting * or another keystroke in place of one or more letters in a vulgar
term is unacceptable. We realize that there's a "grey area" of
judgement with vulgarity but we ask that you'll respect others by avoiding
vulgarity.
Solicitation... Refrain from using The Sportbikes Website to advertise your
site, items for sale, commercial services or website.
Spamming...Spamming is the multiple posting of an identical or similar
post on one or more of our forums.
Copyrighted Material...You may post links to appropriate articles but
posting articles from other sources in their entirety is a violation of our
Community Standards. Use your best judgement, since you agree in the "Terms of
Use" to be held legally responsible for your own posts on this system, but if
you must repost quotes or sentences, please credit the source.
Specific Forum Rules
Violations of the following can result in immediate warning, suspension or
loss of membership (ie. Banning):
1. Do not post links to or URLs for sites offering sportbike
discussion.
2. Always use the same username and do not
impersonate others. Use of more than one username is grounds for banning.
3. This site is not for your own commercial exploitation or
self-promotion of your own business or other commercial activities, unless
specifically approved by the site administrators. Dealer posts within the "Buy &
Sell" section are not permitted. Any posts that have a link, or similar, to the
users own business or commercial activities are also not allowed and will be
deleted.
WARNING-WARNING- Commercial exploitation or
self promotion of your business / or that of one you are associated with is
strictly prohibited. By agreeing to registration below, you agree that
commercial exploitation or self promotion of your business / or that of one you
are associated by means of employment or ownership is subject to a civil penalty
equal to $1000 US dollars, court costs and associated lawyer fees. All court
action will be in the State of Florida. All such exploitation will be deleted at
the forum owners discretion. You agree and understand that this civil penalty is
warranted and is a means for the forum owner to recover for damages caused by
commercial exploitation or self promotion of your business / or that of one you
are associated with. WARNING-WARNING
Please bear in mind that these are only guidelines; there is always a
"grey area" and we understand that. Use your best judgment.
Although the administrators and moderators of The Sportbikes Website 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 Sportbikes Website, nor Jelsoft
Enterprises Ltd. (developers of vBulletin) 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-orientated, hateful, threatening, or
otherwise violative of any laws.
The owner of The Sportbikes Website reserve the right to remove, edit,
move or close any thread / Ban a member for any reason.
Messages posted on The Sportbikes Website sometimes include links
to other Internet sites. We do not endorse any such sites or their content. By
posting on The Sportbikes Website, you grant The Sportbikes Website a royalty-free,
nonexclusive license to display, modify, and preserve your content on our
server. This provision does not apply to content for which The Sportbikes Website
has entered into a separate license or purchase agreement.
The opinions posted on The Sportbikes Website are solely those of
the author. The Sportbikes Website does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of
any message, and The Sportbikes Website is not responsible for the contents of any
message. By providing you with the ability to distribute your content, The Sportbikes Website is acting as a passive conduit for such distribution. The Sportbikes Website does not select the material to be posted, or selectively
determine who will receive the material. The Sportbikes Website reserves the right
to monitor some, all, or no areas of this site for adherence to these rules or
applicable law. The Sportbikes Website reserves the right to remove or edit any
post and to suspend or revoke the posting privileges of any person, and all such
decisions fall solely within The Sportbikes Website discretion.
