Post by Scriv on Mar 14, 2013 21:40:35 GMT -6
The White Light Community Forum is designed to for constructive debate of issues relating to your scroll and pages.
By maintaining a user account and by posting to these forums, you hereby agree to abide by these rules.
CForum members, please note that these rules exist for your own protection and to ensure that the White Light Community Forum remains a friendly, safe and supportive environment for all.
CForum members are asked to report any breaches of our CForum Rules to a Moderator.
Be Safe Online
When using the CForum, the safety of our members is our number one priority. Protect your privacy and stay safe online by following these simple guidelines:
1. Don't give out detailed information about yourself, such as your age, your telephone or mobile number or your home address. If someone asks just say, No!
2. If someone asks where you're from, only say a region or a town. Never give anyone your home address.
3. The only name you should give in the CForum is your registered username.
4. Never send a picture of yourself, your family or your friends to anyone you don't already know and trust.
5. Don't post your email address in the CForum. The last thing you want is people spamming your email or adding your address to a spam list!
6. Be careful who you trust online and don't believe everything people tell you. If all you can see is the words they are typing, you can't be 100% sure that they're who they say they are.
7. Meeting someone you have only been in touch with online can be dangerous.
Finally, if the behavior of another CForum member or the content of a message you receive via the CForum makes you feel uncomfortable or worried, please contact Shinin Star, Scriv or a Mod in the CForum immediately.
Helpful Forums Tools
The CForum provides a range of tools to help you protect your privacy and manage your user profile. Click on My Controls on the top right hand corner of the page to do the following:
Block Users from sending you Private Messages
In the left hand menu bar, under the Messenger section, click on the link that says PM Buddies/Block List. On the next page, you can then specify which users you want to block future private messages from.
Ignore Postings made by other users
In the left hand menu bar, under Options, click on the link that says Manage Ignored Users. On the next page, you can then specify which users you want to ignore. Future postings that these members make to the forums will not be displayed on your computer.
Prevent forums members contacting you by email
In the left hand menu bar, under Options, click on the link that says Email Settings. Then tick the box that says Hide My Email Address from Other Members.
Member Behavior
The following rules apply to post contents, thread titles, quoting of postings, usernames, private messages and images used.
Swearing
The White Light CForum is open to users of all ages, backgrounds and cultures. As such, CForum members are asked to refrain from swearing when posting on the CForum.
To prevent casual swearing, the CForum is incorporated with filtering software. Intentionally trying to bypass the swear filter will result in thread deletion, whether or not the remainder of the post or thread is valid. Similarly, swearing in another language is also unacceptable and will be removed without warning.
Hidden Swearing
Swearing that is contextually understandable, even if spelled incorrectly, e.g. removing a letter, will be moderated and a warning sent to the CForum member.
Trolling
Trolling constitutes one or a series of posts from a user with the deliberate intention of inciting controversy or to cause annoyance or offence to other users. The content of a “troll posting” usually consist of:
1. A personal attack on other CForum users
2. An apparently foolish contradiction of common knowledge
3. A deliberately offensive insult to readers of CForum or a discussion thread
4. A broad request for trivial follow-up postings
5. Any member who ignores the decision of the moderators, whether in relation to themselves or other members, and deliberately attempts to cause trouble
Such postings and the responses that they generate undermine the friendly atmosphere of the CForum and will not be tolerated. The CForum Team reserves the right to delete without warning any material that we deem to be offensive. Decisions as to what constitutes offensive postings will be made at the discretion of the CForum Team and no correspondence will be entered into.
Members who persistently post offensive messages risk having future postings pre-moderated or their user profile suspended.
CForum members are asked not to respond to postings of this nature but to report any material that they find offensive to a member of the CForum administration team.
Racism, Sexism, Ageism and Religious Intolerance
The CForum is open-access, is read and used by many thousands of visitors of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds. As such, intolerance of other people beliefs, culture, IQ, gender, physical or sensory impairments or age is unacceptable. Breaching this rule will result in the entire thread being deleted and an immediate ban from the CForum.
CForum members are asked to remember that other users may not have English as their first language and to extend the same courtesy and patience to others that they would wish to receive themselves.
Out of respect for other CForum users, please refrain from using abbreviations, slang or jargon for many CForum users find this difficult to understand.
Flaming
Flame posts that are excessively abusive, attacking, threatening, or aggressive in nature are unacceptable and will be deleted without warning.
Whilst debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks, troublemaking or purposeless inflammatory posts.
We reserve the right to remove or moderate without warning, any messages that use insulting, threatening, troublemaking, provoking or otherwise aggressive language, or any member who consistently behaves inappropriately. Our decision is final in these matters.
Inappropriate Material
Illegal
The discussion of illegal activities, such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations, are not allowed.
Offensive Material
Any sexually oriented imagery or links to such content are unacceptable and will be removed without warning. Members who post such material will be banned.
Confidential information
CForum members must not post confidential or other information that may infringe upon the privacy, proprietary or personal rights of others. This includes, but is not restricted to, personal telephone numbers, email and postal addresses.
Similarly, Private Messages or emails received via the CForum are to be considered private and are not to be posted publicly unless the sender of the message agrees. By posting material, the posting party warrants and represents that she or he owns the copyright with respect to such material, has received permission from the copyright owner, or that the material is in the public domain.
Abusive or offensive private messages
The moderators do not read emails or private messages sent via the CForum. If you receive a message via the CForum that you find inappropriate or offensive, place the sender on your block list (find out how to do this here) Then contact a moderator with details of the message contents and the sender.
The CForum Team will take what we deem to be appropriate action and if required, can verify details of alleged abuse by referring to the CForum database or by checking the content of messages previously sent via the CForum.
Abusive or offensive usernames
Usernames that are offensive or which attack other CForum users are not allowed. Failure to change your username when requested to by a moderator may result in your account being suspended or deleted.
Defamation and Libel
Please be aware that posts made to the White Light CForum or private messages exchanged via the CForum may be considered libelous, if the goals of these postings or messages are to damage the reputation of an individual or company.
Except for comments by moderators, the views expressed either on or via the CForum are those of the author alone and are not necessarily endorsed or shared by White Light and or the CForum.
Advertising
Business Advertising
The White Light CForum is not a tool for users to advertise their business activities.
The advertising of products or services that are for profit or that detract from general CForum life, are not permitted.
Unacceptable business advertising:
- creating threads or posts that serve solely to promote your business, whatever that may be
- the posting of prices, business names, phone numbers, URLs for your business
- the explicit advertising of your business in your signature
- emailing or private messaging of unsolicited material to CForum users
Unsolicited Use of Personal Information
The collection and/or use of any CForum users personal information (email addresses, ISP usernames, identities, website URLs) for unsolicited marketing purposes (via private messaging, instant messaging, email, etc) is unacceptable.
Any user found to be involved in such activities will be banned immediately. Such behavior may also be deemed to constitute a breach in the US Data Protection Act and may result in civil or criminal prosecution.
SPAM
Spamming exists in many forms. For our purposes we define spam as any post that does not add any worth to the CForum. This includes, but is not restricted to, obnoxious posts, smilies only, replies that have little intellectual worth, or even large quantities of Off-Topic postings.
Cross posting Posts
Members must not post the same comments in more than one thread. Please choose the most relevant thread and post your response in that thread only.
Cross posting Threads
Posting the same thread in more than one topic is considered to be SPAM and is not permitted. To save cluttering the CForum, please choose the topic you feel most appropriate and post there. If you are not getting the response that you would wish, send a Private Message to a CForum moderator.
Please note that posting new threads in multiple topics that refer users to a question posted elsewhere are not permitted and will be removed.
Irrelevant Postings/postings without purpose
The posting of smilies or irrelevant comments simply to increase post count is not appreciated either by forums members trying to follow a thread topic or by the CForum Team.
First instances of this behavior will result in a warning from a moderator. Further instances may result in pre-moderation of postings.
Bumping
Bumping topics is replying to a topic to get said topic to the top of the listing. Replies may include words such as "bump" or "?" or smilies or contain generally irrelevant information. If you are not getting the response that you would wish, please Private Message a CForum moderator who will, if appropriate, move the topic to another forum for you.
First instances of this behavior will result in a warning from a moderator. Further instances may result in the topic being closed or deleted at the moderators discretion, regardless of the validity of the remainder of the thread.
Off-topic Posts
All posts within a thread should have some relevance to the topic of the thread. However, we do appreciate that threads have a natural discussion flow to them, which may move the topic in another direction whilst still maintaining a relationship to the topic.
Out of courtesy to other users, members should avoid posting off-topic comments in a discussion thread. This may result in your post being removed, particularly if post stands out as being off-topic compared to other posts within the thread, or if the post interferes with a line of otherwise on-topic conversation. These decisions are made at the moderators discretion.
Off-topic Threads
Some threads can be considered off-topic for the topic which the thread is posted. In such cases, a moderator will normally move the thread to a more appropriate topic. If no appropriate alternative is not available, the thread may be deleted. Such decisions are made at the moderators discretion.
CForum Cafe
The Forums Cafe is where forums users can gather to chat about (almost) anything site related or non-site related in nature. If you have a question or comment that doesn't fit into any other topic, or just want to chat, this is the place.
Member Profiles
Email address
To prevent CForum abuse, members who sign up to use the CForum are asked to validate their subscription via email. All users are required to have a valid email in their profile, so that the CForum Team is able to contact you if required. Having an invalid or non-working email address will result in the suspension of your account.
Multiple accounts
CForum members are asked to register only one user account. Registering multiple accounts is not allowed. Sharing accounts is not allowed. CForum members registering more than one user profile risk having all their accounts suspended.
Signatures
CForum users are asked to keep their signatures to a reasonable size and our suggested guidelines are:
For text signatures
- 4 lines normal size text, 8 lines small sized text and up to 90 characters per line
- Font sizes above size 14 are not allowed. Please note that blank lines count.
- If you would like to share further information about yourself with other CForum users, please include the info in the My Interests section of your user profile (visit My Controls for more information)
Images
- Only one image per signature please
- Images can be up to 300 pixels wide, 125 pixels tall and 20k in size.
- Animated images in signatures are not allowed.
Links in Signatures
- a link and promotional text for sites that are non-commercial are allowed, providing the site content does not violate any of the above CForum Rules
- Duplicate links to the same URL in a signature are not allowed
- If you wish to display a link to a commercial website, please include the link as part of your user profile (visit My Controls for more information)
- Links to commercial websites must not be commission based or linked to an affiliate program
- linking to competitor websites other or any other organization deemed to be a direct competitor of White Light is not allowed.
Moderation Policies
To ensure that the discussions on our White Light CForum provides a safe and friendly user environment, the CForum moderators have the ability to relocate and remove posts and threads from the discussion forums.
Whilst these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently, we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure that our CForum and CForum members are not disrupted, abused or compromised in any way.
Post Deletion
Posts that breach any of the rules outlined in sections 1 to 6 will be deleted.
Thread Deletion
Typically, threads are deleted if they fall into any of the following categories:
- Pointless: the thread contributes no value to the CForum
- Crosspost: the thread was posted to more than one topic
- Flame baiting: the aim of the thread is to flame or start a fight
- Duplicate: there is already a thread on the same or a very similar topic
- Off-topic: such threads will either be relocated to the CForum Café or deleted altogether
- SPAM: the thread was advertising or thinly disguised market research
Threads that do not fall exactly into one of the above categories, but which are deemed inappropriate due to their content or nature will also be deleted.
Thread Closure
Threads will be closed under any of the following circumstances:
- Off topic - the thread is going off topic, but mostly contains useful information
- Flame war - the thread is turning into a flame war
- Purpose fulfilled - the purpose of the thread has been fulfilled - the author's question was answered, the topic has become irrelevant, etc.
Threads that do not fall exactly into one of the above categories, but are deemed to have reached the end of their useful life, may also be closed. In cases where the reason for closure is not immediately obvious, a moderator will normally post a final message explaining the closure.
Links
Members may post links to external sites, providing they are not offensive, inappropriate or illegal. Any link which is found to be unsuitable for the White Light CForum will be deleted without warning. If a member continues to post unsuitable links which have been removed by the moderators, they will be warned and put under pre-moderation.
Warnings and Pre-moderation
The White Light CForum incorporated a warnings system. Members who break the CForum rules will be issued with a formal warning by the moderation team and this will be recorded in the "Warning panel" underneath your user profile.
CForum members are only able to view their own warning status. (0% means that you have no recorded warnings. This figure will increase if warnings are issued.) If you have received a warning from the CForum Team you can click on the warnings panel to find out why.
Members who receive more than five formal warnings will undergo a period of pre-moderation for at least one month.
Members who persistently breach CForum Rules thereafter may be banned either temporarily or permanently from the White Light CForum.
Zero Tolerance
White Light has a policy of Zero Tolerance for certain user behavior. This includes but is not restricted to
- the unsolicited use of CForum members personal information
- abuse of the CForum private messaging and email systems
or
- postings that display intolerance of other peoples beliefs, culture, IQ, gender, physical or sensory impairments or age.
In cases where such breaches occur, the following action will be taken:
- the post or thread will be deleted, regardless of whether or not the rest of the post or thread is valid
- at the moderator's discretion, the user's account may be suspended for a period of time, ranging from 24 hours to a permanent ban.
Moderation Explanations
Please do not start a new thread asking why your last thread was moved, deleted or closed. If you want to know why, contact a moderator, but please do not ask the community.
By maintaining a user account and by posting to these forums, you hereby agree to abide by these rules.
CForum members, please note that these rules exist for your own protection and to ensure that the White Light Community Forum remains a friendly, safe and supportive environment for all.
CForum members are asked to report any breaches of our CForum Rules to a Moderator.
Be Safe Online
When using the CForum, the safety of our members is our number one priority. Protect your privacy and stay safe online by following these simple guidelines:
1. Don't give out detailed information about yourself, such as your age, your telephone or mobile number or your home address. If someone asks just say, No!
2. If someone asks where you're from, only say a region or a town. Never give anyone your home address.
3. The only name you should give in the CForum is your registered username.
4. Never send a picture of yourself, your family or your friends to anyone you don't already know and trust.
5. Don't post your email address in the CForum. The last thing you want is people spamming your email or adding your address to a spam list!
6. Be careful who you trust online and don't believe everything people tell you. If all you can see is the words they are typing, you can't be 100% sure that they're who they say they are.
7. Meeting someone you have only been in touch with online can be dangerous.
Finally, if the behavior of another CForum member or the content of a message you receive via the CForum makes you feel uncomfortable or worried, please contact Shinin Star, Scriv or a Mod in the CForum immediately.
Helpful Forums Tools
The CForum provides a range of tools to help you protect your privacy and manage your user profile. Click on My Controls on the top right hand corner of the page to do the following:
Block Users from sending you Private Messages
In the left hand menu bar, under the Messenger section, click on the link that says PM Buddies/Block List. On the next page, you can then specify which users you want to block future private messages from.
Ignore Postings made by other users
In the left hand menu bar, under Options, click on the link that says Manage Ignored Users. On the next page, you can then specify which users you want to ignore. Future postings that these members make to the forums will not be displayed on your computer.
Prevent forums members contacting you by email
In the left hand menu bar, under Options, click on the link that says Email Settings. Then tick the box that says Hide My Email Address from Other Members.
Member Behavior
The following rules apply to post contents, thread titles, quoting of postings, usernames, private messages and images used.
Swearing
The White Light CForum is open to users of all ages, backgrounds and cultures. As such, CForum members are asked to refrain from swearing when posting on the CForum.
To prevent casual swearing, the CForum is incorporated with filtering software. Intentionally trying to bypass the swear filter will result in thread deletion, whether or not the remainder of the post or thread is valid. Similarly, swearing in another language is also unacceptable and will be removed without warning.
Hidden Swearing
Swearing that is contextually understandable, even if spelled incorrectly, e.g. removing a letter, will be moderated and a warning sent to the CForum member.
Trolling
Trolling constitutes one or a series of posts from a user with the deliberate intention of inciting controversy or to cause annoyance or offence to other users. The content of a “troll posting” usually consist of:
1. A personal attack on other CForum users
2. An apparently foolish contradiction of common knowledge
3. A deliberately offensive insult to readers of CForum or a discussion thread
4. A broad request for trivial follow-up postings
5. Any member who ignores the decision of the moderators, whether in relation to themselves or other members, and deliberately attempts to cause trouble
Such postings and the responses that they generate undermine the friendly atmosphere of the CForum and will not be tolerated. The CForum Team reserves the right to delete without warning any material that we deem to be offensive. Decisions as to what constitutes offensive postings will be made at the discretion of the CForum Team and no correspondence will be entered into.
Members who persistently post offensive messages risk having future postings pre-moderated or their user profile suspended.
CForum members are asked not to respond to postings of this nature but to report any material that they find offensive to a member of the CForum administration team.
Racism, Sexism, Ageism and Religious Intolerance
The CForum is open-access, is read and used by many thousands of visitors of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds. As such, intolerance of other people beliefs, culture, IQ, gender, physical or sensory impairments or age is unacceptable. Breaching this rule will result in the entire thread being deleted and an immediate ban from the CForum.
CForum members are asked to remember that other users may not have English as their first language and to extend the same courtesy and patience to others that they would wish to receive themselves.
Out of respect for other CForum users, please refrain from using abbreviations, slang or jargon for many CForum users find this difficult to understand.
Flaming
Flame posts that are excessively abusive, attacking, threatening, or aggressive in nature are unacceptable and will be deleted without warning.
Whilst debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks, troublemaking or purposeless inflammatory posts.
We reserve the right to remove or moderate without warning, any messages that use insulting, threatening, troublemaking, provoking or otherwise aggressive language, or any member who consistently behaves inappropriately. Our decision is final in these matters.
Inappropriate Material
Illegal
The discussion of illegal activities, such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations, are not allowed.
Offensive Material
Any sexually oriented imagery or links to such content are unacceptable and will be removed without warning. Members who post such material will be banned.
Confidential information
CForum members must not post confidential or other information that may infringe upon the privacy, proprietary or personal rights of others. This includes, but is not restricted to, personal telephone numbers, email and postal addresses.
Similarly, Private Messages or emails received via the CForum are to be considered private and are not to be posted publicly unless the sender of the message agrees. By posting material, the posting party warrants and represents that she or he owns the copyright with respect to such material, has received permission from the copyright owner, or that the material is in the public domain.
Abusive or offensive private messages
The moderators do not read emails or private messages sent via the CForum. If you receive a message via the CForum that you find inappropriate or offensive, place the sender on your block list (find out how to do this here) Then contact a moderator with details of the message contents and the sender.
The CForum Team will take what we deem to be appropriate action and if required, can verify details of alleged abuse by referring to the CForum database or by checking the content of messages previously sent via the CForum.
Abusive or offensive usernames
Usernames that are offensive or which attack other CForum users are not allowed. Failure to change your username when requested to by a moderator may result in your account being suspended or deleted.
Defamation and Libel
Please be aware that posts made to the White Light CForum or private messages exchanged via the CForum may be considered libelous, if the goals of these postings or messages are to damage the reputation of an individual or company.
Except for comments by moderators, the views expressed either on or via the CForum are those of the author alone and are not necessarily endorsed or shared by White Light and or the CForum.
Advertising
Business Advertising
The White Light CForum is not a tool for users to advertise their business activities.
The advertising of products or services that are for profit or that detract from general CForum life, are not permitted.
Unacceptable business advertising:
- creating threads or posts that serve solely to promote your business, whatever that may be
- the posting of prices, business names, phone numbers, URLs for your business
- the explicit advertising of your business in your signature
- emailing or private messaging of unsolicited material to CForum users
Unsolicited Use of Personal Information
The collection and/or use of any CForum users personal information (email addresses, ISP usernames, identities, website URLs) for unsolicited marketing purposes (via private messaging, instant messaging, email, etc) is unacceptable.
Any user found to be involved in such activities will be banned immediately. Such behavior may also be deemed to constitute a breach in the US Data Protection Act and may result in civil or criminal prosecution.
SPAM
Spamming exists in many forms. For our purposes we define spam as any post that does not add any worth to the CForum. This includes, but is not restricted to, obnoxious posts, smilies only, replies that have little intellectual worth, or even large quantities of Off-Topic postings.
Cross posting Posts
Members must not post the same comments in more than one thread. Please choose the most relevant thread and post your response in that thread only.
Cross posting Threads
Posting the same thread in more than one topic is considered to be SPAM and is not permitted. To save cluttering the CForum, please choose the topic you feel most appropriate and post there. If you are not getting the response that you would wish, send a Private Message to a CForum moderator.
Please note that posting new threads in multiple topics that refer users to a question posted elsewhere are not permitted and will be removed.
Irrelevant Postings/postings without purpose
The posting of smilies or irrelevant comments simply to increase post count is not appreciated either by forums members trying to follow a thread topic or by the CForum Team.
First instances of this behavior will result in a warning from a moderator. Further instances may result in pre-moderation of postings.
Bumping
Bumping topics is replying to a topic to get said topic to the top of the listing. Replies may include words such as "bump" or "?" or smilies or contain generally irrelevant information. If you are not getting the response that you would wish, please Private Message a CForum moderator who will, if appropriate, move the topic to another forum for you.
First instances of this behavior will result in a warning from a moderator. Further instances may result in the topic being closed or deleted at the moderators discretion, regardless of the validity of the remainder of the thread.
Off-topic Posts
All posts within a thread should have some relevance to the topic of the thread. However, we do appreciate that threads have a natural discussion flow to them, which may move the topic in another direction whilst still maintaining a relationship to the topic.
Out of courtesy to other users, members should avoid posting off-topic comments in a discussion thread. This may result in your post being removed, particularly if post stands out as being off-topic compared to other posts within the thread, or if the post interferes with a line of otherwise on-topic conversation. These decisions are made at the moderators discretion.
Off-topic Threads
Some threads can be considered off-topic for the topic which the thread is posted. In such cases, a moderator will normally move the thread to a more appropriate topic. If no appropriate alternative is not available, the thread may be deleted. Such decisions are made at the moderators discretion.
CForum Cafe
The Forums Cafe is where forums users can gather to chat about (almost) anything site related or non-site related in nature. If you have a question or comment that doesn't fit into any other topic, or just want to chat, this is the place.
Member Profiles
Email address
To prevent CForum abuse, members who sign up to use the CForum are asked to validate their subscription via email. All users are required to have a valid email in their profile, so that the CForum Team is able to contact you if required. Having an invalid or non-working email address will result in the suspension of your account.
Multiple accounts
CForum members are asked to register only one user account. Registering multiple accounts is not allowed. Sharing accounts is not allowed. CForum members registering more than one user profile risk having all their accounts suspended.
Signatures
CForum users are asked to keep their signatures to a reasonable size and our suggested guidelines are:
For text signatures
- 4 lines normal size text, 8 lines small sized text and up to 90 characters per line
- Font sizes above size 14 are not allowed. Please note that blank lines count.
- If you would like to share further information about yourself with other CForum users, please include the info in the My Interests section of your user profile (visit My Controls for more information)
Images
- Only one image per signature please
- Images can be up to 300 pixels wide, 125 pixels tall and 20k in size.
- Animated images in signatures are not allowed.
Links in Signatures
- a link and promotional text for sites that are non-commercial are allowed, providing the site content does not violate any of the above CForum Rules
- Duplicate links to the same URL in a signature are not allowed
- If you wish to display a link to a commercial website, please include the link as part of your user profile (visit My Controls for more information)
- Links to commercial websites must not be commission based or linked to an affiliate program
- linking to competitor websites other or any other organization deemed to be a direct competitor of White Light is not allowed.
Moderation Policies
To ensure that the discussions on our White Light CForum provides a safe and friendly user environment, the CForum moderators have the ability to relocate and remove posts and threads from the discussion forums.
Whilst these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently, we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure that our CForum and CForum members are not disrupted, abused or compromised in any way.
Post Deletion
Posts that breach any of the rules outlined in sections 1 to 6 will be deleted.
Thread Deletion
Typically, threads are deleted if they fall into any of the following categories:
- Pointless: the thread contributes no value to the CForum
- Crosspost: the thread was posted to more than one topic
- Flame baiting: the aim of the thread is to flame or start a fight
- Duplicate: there is already a thread on the same or a very similar topic
- Off-topic: such threads will either be relocated to the CForum Café or deleted altogether
- SPAM: the thread was advertising or thinly disguised market research
Threads that do not fall exactly into one of the above categories, but which are deemed inappropriate due to their content or nature will also be deleted.
Thread Closure
Threads will be closed under any of the following circumstances:
- Off topic - the thread is going off topic, but mostly contains useful information
- Flame war - the thread is turning into a flame war
- Purpose fulfilled - the purpose of the thread has been fulfilled - the author's question was answered, the topic has become irrelevant, etc.
Threads that do not fall exactly into one of the above categories, but are deemed to have reached the end of their useful life, may also be closed. In cases where the reason for closure is not immediately obvious, a moderator will normally post a final message explaining the closure.
Links
Members may post links to external sites, providing they are not offensive, inappropriate or illegal. Any link which is found to be unsuitable for the White Light CForum will be deleted without warning. If a member continues to post unsuitable links which have been removed by the moderators, they will be warned and put under pre-moderation.
Warnings and Pre-moderation
The White Light CForum incorporated a warnings system. Members who break the CForum rules will be issued with a formal warning by the moderation team and this will be recorded in the "Warning panel" underneath your user profile.
CForum members are only able to view their own warning status. (0% means that you have no recorded warnings. This figure will increase if warnings are issued.) If you have received a warning from the CForum Team you can click on the warnings panel to find out why.
Members who receive more than five formal warnings will undergo a period of pre-moderation for at least one month.
Members who persistently breach CForum Rules thereafter may be banned either temporarily or permanently from the White Light CForum.
Zero Tolerance
White Light has a policy of Zero Tolerance for certain user behavior. This includes but is not restricted to
- the unsolicited use of CForum members personal information
- abuse of the CForum private messaging and email systems
or
- postings that display intolerance of other peoples beliefs, culture, IQ, gender, physical or sensory impairments or age.
In cases where such breaches occur, the following action will be taken:
- the post or thread will be deleted, regardless of whether or not the rest of the post or thread is valid
- at the moderator's discretion, the user's account may be suspended for a period of time, ranging from 24 hours to a permanent ban.
Moderation Explanations
Please do not start a new thread asking why your last thread was moved, deleted or closed. If you want to know why, contact a moderator, but please do not ask the community.