Community Attitude
- BaB is an open community for the exchange of knowledge, ideas, suggestions and information to help and support others.
- Please display a friendly attitude towards all members.
- Be respectful of the ideas, suggestions, and opinions of others' and allow them to express them WITHOUT BEING CENSORED.
- DO NOT intentionally start argument. Lively debates are terrific as long as they do not become personal and insulting.
- Please try and "give" back to your community. Every time you find assistance, ideas, or answers on BaB, try and help someone else do the same.
- Allow people some time to respond to your questions or requests. Patience is a virtue. There's always a whole lot going on.
- Relax. Take it easy on newer members. You might consider yourself to be an "expert" now but at some point we all were novices and eager to learn.
- DO NOT make threats or implied threats towards anyone.
- DO NOT make inappropriate or offensive posts towards anyone.
- DO NOT make posts that are slanderous, libelous, insulting or name calling, about BaB, its' principals, administrators, moderators, or members regardless of whether or not it is just your personal opinion.
- If you have a suggestion or comment concerning the forum rules or moderation, please PM your concerns or question to a Moderator or Site Administrator.
Inappropriate Forum Behavior
- Do NOT drag another forum members' website into a discussion unless that discussion revolves around that particular website or that forum member brings their website into the discussion first. Why ruin a perfectly good discussion or debate by insulting another member with a personal comment.
- Do NOT insult, defame, or otherwise discredit another forum, discussion group, message board, website, their administrators, moderators, members or posters. BaB believes in honesty and integrity and respects the views and opinions that other websites and forums have to offer.
- DO NOT POST PORN OR ADULT CONTENT. This includes any site promoting, endorsing or selling pornography, drugs, medications, gambling or links to any such sites.
- Non-pornographic sites such as those selling "lingerie" are permitted provided you post as warning indicating such, for example...
Warning: Adult content that may not be appropriate for all readers.
BaB Spam Policies
- Please make sure you are posting for the good of the community, its' members and readers.
- Posts considered to be strictly self promotion, or promotional, will be deleted and may lead to further action including loss of membership. This includes but is not limited to other forums, message boards and websites. BaB has directories and advertising opportunities for companies, websites, forums or organizations for this purpose.
- DO NOT post press releases in the forum. There is an appropriate place for their submission for consideration..
- Surveying the membership is not permitted without prior written consent from BaB administrators.
- DO NOT use BaB for "spam" or excessive advertisements or endorsements. This includes forum posts, PM's or emails to BaB members. Please report any suspected abuses to BaB administrators.
- DO NOT recommend, endorse or otherwise suggest or promote a product, service, vendor, or website without having DEALT WITH THEM PERSONALLY. Posts recommending, endorsing, or promoting, a product, company, service or website simply because a third party or another "BaB member has" will be subject to deletion. You are welcome, and encouraged to point members to BaB threads where particular products, services, companies, or websites are being or have been discussed.
- If Bab finds or otherwise determines you have been spamming the community you will be warned by a Moderator or Site Administrator. This may lead to your post(s) being deleted and/or the termination of your BaB membership.
Forum Abuse Policies
- First Offense - A polite private message (PM) from a Moderator or Site Administrator pointing out and reinforcing BaB forum rules. Your post(s) may be edited or deleted.
- Second Offense - A public warning on the forum and deletion of your post(s).
- Third Offense - Moderators and Site Administrators will discuss the possible termination of the offending users membership,
Private Mail (PM) and Email Abuse Policies
- DO NOT use BaB as a basis for spamming, scamming, or otherwise soliciting or surveying the BaB membership.
- BaB does not tolerates PM or Email abuse and will terminate the membership and ban the IP address of offenders without warning.
Identity Theft
- Identity theft is illegal and BaB will not tolerate it. DO NOT impersonate any person or organization whom you are not even in jest, regardless of whom the other person or organization is.
Multiple Posts
- DO NOT post the same question or topic in multiple forums. Multiple threads are unnecessary and will be deleted. If nobody responds to your question or topic simply post a reply to it yourself to "bump" it back to the top of the board so other members will notice it.
Signature Restrictions
- Please keep your signature to a maximum of 2 lines.
- You may post a single text link to your website but no links to affiliate, drug, gambling, pornographic or any site deemed inappropriate by BaB Administrators.
- BaB will request that signatures deemed excessive be edited.
- BaB will edit or delete signatures that violate BaB policies.
- Images or cookie requests are not allowed in your signature.
By joining the BaB community you agree to abide by these forum rules and understand that violating these rules will not be tolerated. If you have any questions or comments concerning these rules, or are unclear about them, PM a Site Administrator for clarification.
Please report anyone who you feel is in violation of these rules to a Moderator or Site Administrator immediately.
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