Act Against Allergy

Please read the "Board-wide Policies" below and become familiar with it, it's terms are retroactive and agreed by team and group members.

This document is designed to clarify various responsibilities of community members.

Forum rules

Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting. Users consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning.

Members should use an appropriate, descriptive title when posting a new topic. Examples of good titles include: "Vomiting after breastfeed", "Persistent crying", etc.

Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusing users in will not be tolerated and will be issued a warning.

Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". That is, users should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or coloured text, etc. Similarly users should not SHOUT or use excessive punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts. Users consistently abusing this will be warned.

Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.

Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Users linking to or asking for information on brands and products or re-printing material without permission will receive a warning and their post will be removed.
Members should respect the bandwidth of other users and sites. The use of inline ([IMG][/IMG]) image tags pointing to data stored on third party systems for which the user has not received permission to link to may be removed.

Spam is not tolerated under any circumstance. This includes offering services, products, etc. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed.

The moderating and support teams reserve the right to edit or remove any post at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these points is up to Team Members and not users.

Signature

Signatures may contain up to five lines (one line being that displayed on a browser opened to 800px width) of text (of small or normal size) and/or one image, valid combinations include; a single image of no more than 60px high, 468px wide and 6kB (6000 Bytes) in size. Signatures containing an image this large may also include one line of small size text. Signatures containing an image of 30px high may include up to three lines of small size text or two lines of normal size text. Images of 15px height or less may allow up to three lines of normal size text or four lines of small size text. Animated images are not allowed.

Text sizes should be between 9 and 12 (small and normal). Text in signatures is subject to the same conditions as posts.

Links in signatures are permitted to a maximum of four unique pages or sites. You cannot link to warez, porn , political, racist or other similar sites. This also refers to product, brand or commercial sites. Links are included in signature size limits.

Users abusing these rules will be warned.

Avatars

User defined avatars are to be no larger than 90 pixels square, contain no animation, contain no image which attempts to portray the user as having an official status here (e.g. mimiking ranks or copying avatars of team members), may not exceed 6kB (6000 Bytes).
Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts. Users abusing these rules will be warned and/or may lose their avatar privileges

Policing

Administrators operate a three strike policy. Users will be warned a maximum of three times for any and all offences in a three month period. If the need arises for a fourth warning a temporary ban will be put in place between 1 to 7 days in duration.

Arguing with team members after having received a warning will lead to an immediate additional warning. Should this exceed three strikes a temporary ban will be put in place as described above.

Users who feel they have been unfairly warned are welcome to contact the moderator, e.g. if warned by a moderator you should contact the Moderator team leader. If they feel you were treated badly they remove a warning. If you feel their decision is also unfair you may contact the administrators. Their decision is final.

Any attempt to circumvent a temporary ban will lead to that ban being made permanent. Circumvention includes re-registering under a non-banned username, changing IP addresses to evade an IP ban, registering a new email account of evade an email ban. Circumvention includes posting as an anonymous user.

An exception to the three strike rule applies when users contact team members personally (via any method) and post insulting, indecent or vulgar material. Such users may be subject to an immediate permanent ban.

Permanent bans are a last resort and careful consideration is given before implementing them.

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