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Billiards Forum Rules and Terms of Use

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Billiard Classifieds Forum

Never Plug or Discuss Your Own Company or Product

Members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain, may only discuss details about or solicit feedback on, their own products and/or services, the products and/or services of friends, clients, partners, and/or employers, or any product and/or services that you or a friend, client, partner, and/or employee were, are, or will at some point be associated with, if the thread-starter has made direct references to your products and/or services, the products and/or services of friends, clients, partners, and/or employers, or any product and/or services that you or a friend, client, partner, and/or employee were, are, or will at some point be associated with, that are misleading, untrue, or that lacks clarity. The response must be in direct reference to the point discussed only and contain no added promotional information. It is advisable when in the above scenario to contact the moderators first.

CONSEQUENCE: Any members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain that are found to be promoting, advertising, discussing details about, soliciting feedback on, or marketing any product regardless of association with said product(s) will have their post, reply, comment, signature, and/or other message removed permanently either via deletion or via other technological features of the Billiards Forum. In addition to this, the offending user's account is subject to permanent deletion without notice.

No Commercial Advertising

Advertising and commercial posting of any kind is strictly prohibited. Members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain, shall not advertise or promote any product or products via new posts, replies, private messages, signatures, or through Billiards Forum email. For advertising inquiries, please contact us privately. The term "advertising" and "commercial posting" also refers to suggestions of your own products and/or services, the products and/or services of friends, clients, partners, and/or employers, or any product and/or services that you or a friend, client, partner, and/or employee were, are, or will at some point be associated with.

CONSEQUENCE: Any members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain that are found to be promoting, advertising, or marketing any product regardless of association with said product(s) will have their post, reply, comment, signature, and/or other message removed permanently either via deletion or via other technological features of the Billiards Forum. In addition to this, the offending user's account is subject to permanent deletion without notice.

Posting Classifieds

Posting in the free Billiards Classifieds section for Billiards Forum must be done in accordance with each of the applicable regulations in the list below.


  • Members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain may not criticize, trash, or troll any classified posting made by another member, non-member, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain. Criticisms that are not allowed include, but are not limited to, phrases such as "you can find a better price elsewhere..." and "I think your product is poor..."
  • Members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain must limit their classified posts to one billiard classified advertisement per seven day period.
  • Members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain that wish to post a billiard classified notice must read and understand and follow the rules before posting.
  • Members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain may not post any topic, reply, comments, and/or other message in attempt to defraud or deceive our members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain, with bogus advertisement or products.


CONSEQUENCE: Any members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain that are found to violate any of the free "Billiards Classifieds" posting rules listed above will have their post, reply, comment, signature, and/or other message removed permanently either via deletion or via other technological features of the Billiards Forum. In addition to this, the offending user's account is subject to permanent deletion without notice.

Transactions

Any transactions facilitated through the forums, classifieds, advertisements, content pages, affiliates pages, or through any other part of Billiards Forum, including payment and delivery of goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such organizations and/or individuals. You agree that billiardsforum.info, and its owners, administrators, moderators, webmasters, and/or employees shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings. If there is a dispute between participants on this site, or between users and any third party, you understand and agree that billiardsforum.info is under no obligation to, and will not, become involved.

Billiard Forum Posting Rules

English Only

All new threads, replies, comments, articles, and posts must be made in English.

CONSEQUENCE: Any threads, replies, comments, articles, and/or posts that are not made in English are subject to either a translation and re-posting or a full and permanent deletion. Once content is deleted, it can not be recovered.

Keep Language Appropriate

Expletives, foul language, and abusive language is not permitted. Although some words will be automatically filtered and censored, it is recommended that you participate in the billiard discussion in a civilized and polite manner.

Spelling, Grammar, and Logical Titles

The Billiards Forum is meant to be an informative cue sport resource, and to accomplish this, its content must be searchable. Although we have taken the appropriate technological steps to bring this goal to fruition, all content must have relevant titles or subject lines, and must be spelled correctly and have appropriate punctuation and grammar. When starting a topic, think about what you would likely search for if you were searching for an answer to your question. This should be your title or subject line. Likewise, the body of your content should be free of spelling and grammatical errors and use proper English.

CONSEQUENCE: Any titles, subject lines, posts, or any other submitted content that is not specific to the content of the thread, or that contain spelling and/or grammar errors will be adjusted appropriately by a Billiards Forum employee, administrator, moderator, or other appointed persons or robots.

Content Filtering Expectations

Monitoring and Moderation Expectations

The owner, administrator, webmaster, moderator, employee(s), agents, and/or billiardsforum.info robots may elect to monitor all, some, or none of the areas of the Billiards Forum for compliance with the rules and regulations. Billiards Forum owners, administrators, moderators, webmasters, employees, and/or robots make no guarantees that all content posted will be moderated, and thus, all members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain are advised to do so at their own risk. As noted in the terms and conditions of use of the Billiards Forum website, all information appearing on the pages of http//www.billiardsforum.info/ should be used for informational purposes only. Members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain should always seek the advice of a professional and should never rely solely or partially on any of the information found on the site without the verification of such information through a professional.

Right to Alter Content

The owner, administrator, webmaster, moderator, employee(s), agents, and/or billiardsforum.info robots reserve the right to edit, delete, modify, split, combine, lock, or otherwise alter any post, reply, comment, and/or other message which has been deemed in any way to violate any of the rules, either as stated, or implied.

General Billiard Forum Rules

Billiard Forum Accounts and Activation

The Billiards Forum member database is routinely cleaned by the owner, administrator, webmaster, moderator, employee(s), agents, and/or billiardsforum.info robots in order to maintain a current and active community. When registering for the Billiards Forum, you will have 50 days to activate your account. If the account is not activated within the 50 days after the initial registration, the account subject to deletion without notice. Although there is no set interval between which users must log in and post, we prefer regular members. Billiards Forum administrators, moderators, employees, agents, and/or robots may, in their sole discretion, edit, delete, lock, or otherwise modify inactive user accounts.

If any user is found to be in violation of the billiards forum rules and regulations, their account, should one exist, is subject to deletion, editorial adjustments, or a freeze of activity (lock) at any time. All accounts, and the information contained within such accounts are the property of Billiards Forum.

Billiards Forum Avatars

When uploading avatars, you must ensure that you are not uploading any copyrighted content. Additionally, please keep the avatars clean and age appropriate. Any offending avatars will be deleted without notice. You can report any copyrighted or distasteful avatars by contacting the billiards forum administrator.

Choosing The Correct Forums

Each individual Billiards Forum category, and its associated forums, are designed to address certain specific topics. New billiard threads must be initiated in the most appropriate forum under the applicable category, and must remain on-topic at all times.

CONSEQUENCE: Threads that are started under an improper category and/or forum will be moved to the most appropriate category and forum. There may or may not be notification of the movement of incorrectly categorized threads.

Content Ownership

All content, posts, replies, comments, signatures, private messages, and other messages are property of Billiards Forum.

Duplicate Posting of Messages

Members may not post the same billiard message on multiple forums. This is considered a form of spamming and will not be tolerated my moderators and administrators of the Billiards Forum. The Billiards Forum has been divided into several specific categories that members can choose from, and thus, members must choose the most appropriate forum and sub-category for their question. The administrators and moderators will move any topic that is not posted in the correct forum or sub-category. Postings of the same messages to multiple forums will be deleted, and the posting member's account will be reviewed by administrators.

Harassment of Members

Harassment of members, non-members, other visitors, vendors, partners, advertisers, and/or staff of Billiards Forum will not be tolerated. Billiards Forum considers harassment to be any situation that "troubles or annoys continually; to make repeated attacks on someone without foundation or proof." Use and participation in the Billiards Forum requires the exhibition of proper etiquette.

CONSEQUENCE: Any members, non-members, or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain found to be harassing any other members, non-members, or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain for any reason will receive one warning. Should the harassment continue, the account will be removed permanently via either deletion or other technological features of the Billiards Forum.

Illegal Content Prohibited

Members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain, shall not post any content that perpetuates, aides, or encourages illegal behavior. This includes the use of email and private messaging features of the Billiards Forum.

CONSEQUENCE: Any members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain that are found to be acting in any way that perpetuates, aides, or encourages illegal behavior will have their account removed permanently either via deletion or via other technological features of the Billiards Forum.

No Posts for Banned Members

Members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain, shall not post any content on behalf of any banned member, non-member, or other visitor banned from any part of the Billiards Forum. This includes the use of email and private messaging features of the Billiards Forum.

CONSEQUENCE: Any members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain that are found to be acting in any way on the behalf of any banned member, non-member, or other visitor banned from any part of the Billiards Forum will have their account removed permanently either via deletion or via other technological features of the Billiards Forum.

Posting About Products and Services

Members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain, shall not recommend, praise, or criticize other products or services, or any company without first hand experience of those products, services, and/or companies.

CONSEQUENCE: Any members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain that are found to recommend, praise, or criticize other products or services, or any company without first hand experience of those products, services, and/or companies will have their post, reply, comment, signature, and/or other message removed permanently either via deletion or via other technological features of the Billiards Forum.

Signature Regulations

Advertising is generally not allowed in signatures, however, members may publish signatures which include links to web sites that they own or control, or that feature them in some way. Please note that all Billiards Forum signature links contain the "NOFOLLOW" attribute.

CONSEQUENCE: The Billiards Forum administration reserves the right to adjust user's signatures at any time if they violate Billiard Forum Rules, offend any members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain in any way, or conflict with any Billiards Forum partner or advertiser.

Termination of Use

The owners, administrators, moderators, employees, agents, and/or robots consider these rules when reviewing all content, posts, replies, comments, and other messages. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to terminate without notice, any account or other user if they are, or appear to be, in violation of any of the rules of the Billiards Forum.

Once an account is deleted, it can not be recovered. The owners, administrators, moderators, employees, agents, and/or robots of the Billiards Forum may or may not, at their sole discretion, remove some, none, or all of your posts, replies, comments, or other messages, regardless of the deleted user's approval.

Use of Technology for Negative Activity

Members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain, shall not post words or URLs that are censored or otherwise prohibited, by adding spaces, dots, or substituting characters; or by any other means, in an attempt to defeat any censors or other moderation technology put in place by billiardsforum.info.

CONSEQUENCE: Any members, non-members, and/or any other visitor accessing any page on the billiardsforum.info domain that are found to post words or URLs that are censored or otherwise prohibited, by adding spaces, dots, or substituting characters; or by any other means, in an attempt to defeat any censors or other moderation technology put in place by billiardsforum.info will have their account removed permanently either via deletion or via other technological features of the Billiards Forum.


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Billiards Forum Rules and Terms of Use

Billiards Forum Rules and Terms of Use