Notebook Review Forum Rules

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Rules (DON'Ts):
1. No discussion of any illegal activity or threats of violence.

2. No use of explicit, obscene or vulgar language or images and/or messages.

3. No threats, racist remarks, or other type of posts that attack, insult, "flame", or abuse members or guests.

4. No advertising or links to advertising or "Spam" is permited (including signatures).
- Advertising or Spam is defined as posting a link for the purpose of selling, soliciting or promoting by someone that has ownership or other "vested interest" to the web site involved, including efforts to promote other online forums or web sites by web site owners.
- Only links to personal home pages are allowed in signatures and member profiles. No Porno pics or links. Links must be appropriate and abide by rules #1-4 or they will be removed.
- Links to helpful web sites (commercial or otherwise) are allowed when they are posted by someone without any "vested interest" AND whose purpose is NOT to solicit, advertise, promote, fundraise, etc.

5. No links to any web site or use of any username that fits into rules # 1-4 above.

6. No use of multiple usernames. Please register and use only one username for the forums. Posting under multiple user accounts will result in administrative action (ie. banning).

7. No posts of copyrighted material.

8. No posts of lengthy articles. Sharing information is allowed, but the forums are not to be used to publish articles. It is an improper use of critical forum resources.

9. No Flaming. Respect other members of the community.

10. Do not disrespect moderators.

11. No SHOUTING. Remember, using ALL CAPITAL LETTERS in posts is considered yelling and rude, plus it is difficult to read.

12. Do not post offline personal contact information (ie. your home address, phone numbers etc.) and do not ask for personal information from others.

13. No duplicate posts.

14. No irrelevant or off-topic posts. Posts which are not relevant to the forum topic may be deleted at the moderator's discretion.

15. No lengthy signatures. Limit signatures to 10 lines or less. Moderators will edit and/or remove signatures that are too long.