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You must acknowledge the following rules before you can post. The rules may be amended from time to time and will require you to acknowledge them again if they are. Breaking rules result in punishments. There are several types of punishments: Warning - This is where a public announcement is made that mentions your user name and that you have broken a rule. We will determine whether you knew what you were doing was wrong or whether a warning is necessary to explain it to you. If we do not give a warning, we will skip ahead to the next step in the penalty list. Warnings may or may not be in the form of a public comment by the admins, but will also include an infraction in you profile. Infractions in your profile are viewable by the other members of the board. Muting - This is where you are not able to talk on the board. You may still view it. We will have various levels of muting that may limit access to other features of the board as well. Temporary Ban - This is where you are not able to view or participate on the board for a certain period of time. Permanent Ban - You can never again view the board. The following rules list the most serious violations: No Hacking - This should go without saying, but you are not permitted to hack the board. Guessing someone else's password and succeeding counts as hacking. Members who hack will instantly be permanently banned without any warnings. No Discrimination, - You may not insult members based on their religion, race, sex, political beliefs, or whether they are gay or straight. This is worse than flaming, because it also hurts other members of the board who fall into the category you insult. FOL is a place where everyone is equal, and discrimination will NOT be tolerated! No Bullying - Do not pick on other members. The worst kind of bullying is where new members are picked on. This hurts the member as well as the board. No Flaming - Flaming harms the atmosphere of FOL. It also causes thread's to go off topic, and most importantly, it hurts the person being flamed. The victim may defend themselves against any accusations made to them, but may not make any additional accusations to the flamer (which also counts as flaming). Note: Some of the forums can become very heated. We will continue to allow these heated discussions as we have in the past. Whether someone is bullying or flaming is the sole discretion and judgment of the administrators and moderators. No Profanity or Obscene Content - Such content does not belong on FOL. A censor system is in place as a backup. If you see words in your post being replaced with ****, you have done something wrong. Please edit your post and tone it down before your timer runs out. To edit a post, click the "Edit" button right below it. Cheating the censor system is against the rules. No Multiple IDs. You may have only one ID. If you create multiple IDs they will be disable and you will given a warning. If you continue to create Multiple IDs you will be permanently banned. The following rules are also important: When using Frisco-Online's services, you agree to the terms and conditions listed on this page and the Terms of Service page. The Terms of Service apply to Frisco-Online, its parent and subsidiary sites, third-level domains, parked domains, partnerships and affiliates. We will add your registration email address to the Frisco-OnLine.com Newsletter as well as its affiliates which include The Cheney Group and ChooseCheney.com. Frisco-Online does not sell nor share email addresses with third parties. Users have the right to opt out of any newsletter at anytime. No Advertising - FOL has an advertising policy. Read it and abide by it. Unless you are a paid sponsor you are restricted in what can and cannot be included in your signature line, user name and avatar. You are not allowed to use the member list to obtain Instant Messaging screen names to harass people to purchase a product from you. If you are not a paid sponsor you may not contact other members via PM soliciting services. No Illegal Activity - You are not allowed to break the law using FOL. This can get FOL into legal trouble. Violation of this rule will result in immediate and permanent banning. No Double Posting or Spamming - You may not post more than once in a row in the same thread. Posting lots of times in a row reduces the quality of the board, is a waste of the board's memory, and provides the culprit with ill earned post count points. Double posts will be merged into regular posts, and you will lose 10 post count for each of the posts excluding the first one. Your post count can be changed to a negative number if necessary. The only exception to this rule is if your edit timer (24 hours) for the post has run out, in which case you may double post if you have something important to add. Spamming is also not allowed, and is defined as a post that has no meaning, digging up multiple old threads and posting the same response, or creating multiple threads in different forums with the same question. No Topic Bumping - If a topic you created has no replies, you may not post again in it (although you may edit the post if the timer has not run out). If you made the thread because you need help with something, you may post again as long as you include additional information about your problem (the fact that you really really want it fixed does not count as additional information). You must post this in the same thread, and you are not allowed to create more than one thread per topic. No Posting Personal Info - You may not post other people's personal information. This is because this information then becomes accessible to anyone. There are some exceptions. An example of an exception would be discussion regarding public figures and mentioning them by name. We do however take a VERY narrow view of what information is considered public; if in doubt don't post it. No Posting of PMs - They are called "private" for a reason. If you have a problem with a PM that is sent to you, report it to the administrators. We will deal with it. Posting it in the forums is not acceptable. No Threatening to Leave the Board - Due to past experiences on the board, we added this rule. You may not make posts threatening to leave the board. This causes flaming to occur. Because of what a problem this is, we cannot issue a warning for violations. Anyone responding poorly to these threads will also be muted. External Links - Posting of external links is allowed on a case-by-case basis upon approval. Frisco-Online reserves the right to remove any external link at any time, for any reason, at their sole discretion, including, but not limited to, external links previously approved. If you break one of these rules, the following penalties will apply (first time, second time, third time...) with the exception of breaking the rule "No Hacking" which immediately results in a permanent ban: Warning - Depending on how serious a violation is, you may be issued a warning first Muting - Muting lasts for 10 days. Temporary ban - People who cause more problems after being muted for 10 days will be banned. Temporary Bans can last for a few days, or a few weeks. If you are given a temporary ban you will be notified of the length of time. If we have to give you a second temporary ban for the same infraction it will be longer than the first. Permanent ban - At this point, it is obvious that will never learn your lesson, thus, a permanent ban is necessary to be rid of the problems you cause. Muting, Temporary Bans and Permanent Bans are viewable by the community as a whole due to a change in your User title. The following are a set of amendments to clarify the rules for those people who wish to nitpick: Amendment 1 - There are no excuses for breaking the rules. It doesn't matter if you were angry at the time and weren't thinking straight. It doesn't matter if you were only kidding around. If you break a rule, it does the same damage, regardless of your reasons for breaking it, and you will be punished all the same. Amendment 2 - Staff abusing their powers will not be tolerated. Administrators and Moderators jobs are to help people, not harm them, and to run the board fairly. They may only use their powers for the purposes given to them by the owners. There is no limit on how much a Mod or Admin may be punished for this severe offense as this must be stopped at all costs to protect the board. This means that if staff abuses their powers, there is a good chance they will be permanently banned. Amendment 3 - Harassing the administration about punishments is not allowed. The admins/mods are only trying to do their job, and many times they have to make difficult decisions. You may post your opinion in the thread that announces the punishment (if there is one), as long as you do not flame anyone. If this thread gets out of hand, it will be closed, and you may not complain elsewhere on the board, or by other means including, but not limited to: private messages, instant messaging programs, email. You also may not make threats against administrators (or other members for that matter...). Punishments for harassment range from a 5 day mute for minor harassments to a permanent ban if serious threats are involved. Amendment 4 - If you break more than one rule, the punishments will stack up to a maximum of 2 months, or a permanent ban if necessary. If a sentencing length is 10 days or less, it is a mute, otherwise, it can either be a temporary or permanent ban.
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