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BlackWebPortal.com Forum Rules of Engagement

Updated: February 14, 2007

DO NOT MAKE USERNAMES ALL NUMBERS: Please put a personality to your login. Do not use all numbers as a username. It will simply be deleted and you can enter again. It is our policy and we will not change it.
DO NOT MAKE TOPICS ALL CAPITALS: Do not make your topics and responses all capitals as they will be editted if time permits or deleted if there is not enough time. All caps is considered a SHOUT.
NO SPECIAL CHARACTERS: Note, only alphanumberic characters are allowed, such as [a-z][A-Z][0-9] and if necessary a single underscore. All else ~!@$%^&*()_-=+ and more are absolutely not allowed. If those characters are entered you will have to rejoin the forums. No spaces
IMPROPER E-MAIL: If a user submits an improper username, a welcome statement containing their temporary password will not be received.
NEWSLETTER REQUIREMENT: You will be periodically forwarded e-mail so that we can keep you abreast of changes in our forum application. Your proper e-mail registration in part 1 will make this possible. If your e-mail is found unreachable 3x we will disable the account.
FOUL LANGUAGE: We allow a little foul language, after all we do expect adults to use this forum, but try to keep it tasteful and in context of the topic of discussion.
NO SALES PROMOTION: If you have products to sell, you cannot sell them in our forums. When detected {which is most times since users tattle} we will eliminate the post and suspend the account.
NO SPAMMING OR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENTS: We urge all of our participants to exercise good netiquette by annotating all borrowed material. i.e., tell us what newspaper or magazine a particular article came from and include the entire link. {via our privacy policy we are not responsible for user submitted data.}
NO DUPLICATE USERNAMES: Once a username is taken it cannot be duplicated. Thus we only disable users, thus preventing new users from taking a previous user's identity.
NO NUDE PHOTOS: You may get the feeling to post a picture that enhances the discussion, that is ok, but please be sure that the people in the pictures are clothed.
NO MARKETING OF OTHER DISCUSSION BOARDS: We work hard at keeping this board up to date, we expect other board owners to do the same. If you really want to market your board in our board, a payment arrangement can be worked out.