Post by Fatman on Jan 7, 2018 12:21:55 GMT 10
Vaping in Australia is a completely non-commercial forum and we do not carry advertising or charge anyone for the use of this forum (this includes any commercial members such as Vendors and Mod Makers). We reserve the right to implement charges for Vendors to participate at a further date in time.
VERY IMPORTANT
You will be unable to post on Vaping in Australia or access your user control panel to set things like your signature, etc, until your account has been activated. This does NOT happen automatically and must be done by an administrator.
It can take up to 24 hours for one of the admin team to activate your account (although it's normally much quicker), so please be patient!
We know, nobody likes rules and regulations, However experience tells us that some guidelines are a necessity in order to run a community smoothly. With that in mind, it's important that you read the following:
By becoming a member and posting on the forums at Vaping in Australia you agree to adhere to the following rules.
1. Adults Only: To be a member here you must be aged 18 or over. By registering for an account you are confirming that you are at least 18 years of age.
2. Forum Moderation: Vaping in Australia is moderated by a team of volunteers, please respect them and their decisions. You only really need to understand the Moderator is ALWAYS right . Click here for more details
3. Be civil: try to treat others the way you'd like to be treated yourself. Click here for expansion on this.
4. One Account Only: You are permitted to hold one account only. Duplicate accounts if found will be deleted and sanctions applied. See more here.
5. Illegal Activities: The discussion of illegal activities is not permitted. This includes, but is not limited to, the use of illegal drugs.
6. Termination of account: Though a last resort, we reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules. This is a private forum and we also reserve the right to close anyone's account at our discretion . We are not obliged to provide reasons for account closure under these circumstances.
7. Language: Please post using the English language only. The owner of Vaping in Australia is not multilingual and hence it would be impossible to monitor forum activity in any language other than English.
8. Affiliate Links: Affiliate links (including in signatures) are not permitted and will be removed.
9. Ownership of Posts: You acknowledge that all posts you make are yours and yours alone and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of Vaping in Australia staff.
10. Spamming: Spamming users via PM is absolutely not permitted under any circumstances and offenders will receive a 1 week ban for a first offence. Subsequent abuse of the PM facility will result in a permanent ban.
11. Post counts: Spamming meaningless posts to increase your post count and gain access to classifieds sales is not permitted and action will be taken against anyone doing this, including (but not limited to) temporary suspension of posting rights and deletion of spam posts.
12. Signatures: Please keep signatures neat and concise. Avoid the use of Large images or graphics. Links in Signatures are NOT permissible without Moderator/Admin approval. See more here.
13. Editing / Removing your posts: For guidelines see here.
14. Social networks: Vaping in Australia should not be used to drive traffic to other forms of social media, if deemed inappropriate any such links may be removed with no redress.
15. Copyrighted Material: Please be mindful of posting others commercial information or property. See here
16. Items for Sales or Trade: Please see our classifieds rules here
16a Preparing and sending items on the classifieds: Please see guidelines here
17. Thread Bumping: Please do not bump threads with a single "bump" post - if you want to bump a thread, do it by adding something worthwhile to the debate. See the classified rules for specific rules regarding bumping in sales threads
18. Email Notifications: You can opt for the forum to send you email notifications with for events such as new Private Messages. If you choose to use this, you must not have an auto-responder on the email account that is receiving these emails as it causes unnecessary and annoying volumes of auto-responder emails to be sent to the admin staff. If you have an auto-responder, your email notifications will be disabled by a member of the admin staff.
19. Private Communications: Please respect the implied privacy regarding Private messaging. See here
20. Anonymous Email Addresses & VPN's: You must not register for Vaping in Australia with an anonymous email address. ViA staff reserve the right to delete accounts linked to anonymous email accounts and also to delete any comments if found to be coming from a VPN, if you aren't brave enough to stick behind your words, don't post them
If you register with a VPN, if discovered, your account will be declined until you register with an IP that isn't a VPN. If you post with a VPN, your post may be deleted and you may be moderated
21. Personal Information: You MUST NOT under any circumstances post a members "personally identifiable information" on the public forum.
This includes (but is not limited to) real name, address, e-mail address or telephone number. Offending posts will be edited or removed and action will be taken (including warnings, suspensions and bans) against anyone who breaches this rule
22. Posting Links on ViA: For specific guidelines see here
VERY IMPORTANT
You will be unable to post on Vaping in Australia or access your user control panel to set things like your signature, etc, until your account has been activated. This does NOT happen automatically and must be done by an administrator.
It can take up to 24 hours for one of the admin team to activate your account (although it's normally much quicker), so please be patient!
We know, nobody likes rules and regulations, However experience tells us that some guidelines are a necessity in order to run a community smoothly. With that in mind, it's important that you read the following:
By becoming a member and posting on the forums at Vaping in Australia you agree to adhere to the following rules.
1. Adults Only: To be a member here you must be aged 18 or over. By registering for an account you are confirming that you are at least 18 years of age.
2. Forum Moderation: Vaping in Australia is moderated by a team of volunteers, please respect them and their decisions. You only really need to understand the Moderator is ALWAYS right . Click here for more details
3. Be civil: try to treat others the way you'd like to be treated yourself. Click here for expansion on this.
4. One Account Only: You are permitted to hold one account only. Duplicate accounts if found will be deleted and sanctions applied. See more here.
5. Illegal Activities: The discussion of illegal activities is not permitted. This includes, but is not limited to, the use of illegal drugs.
6. Termination of account: Though a last resort, we reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules. This is a private forum and we also reserve the right to close anyone's account at our discretion . We are not obliged to provide reasons for account closure under these circumstances.
7. Language: Please post using the English language only. The owner of Vaping in Australia is not multilingual and hence it would be impossible to monitor forum activity in any language other than English.
8. Affiliate Links: Affiliate links (including in signatures) are not permitted and will be removed.
9. Ownership of Posts: You acknowledge that all posts you make are yours and yours alone and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of Vaping in Australia staff.
10. Spamming: Spamming users via PM is absolutely not permitted under any circumstances and offenders will receive a 1 week ban for a first offence. Subsequent abuse of the PM facility will result in a permanent ban.
11. Post counts: Spamming meaningless posts to increase your post count and gain access to classifieds sales is not permitted and action will be taken against anyone doing this, including (but not limited to) temporary suspension of posting rights and deletion of spam posts.
12. Signatures: Please keep signatures neat and concise. Avoid the use of Large images or graphics. Links in Signatures are NOT permissible without Moderator/Admin approval. See more here.
13. Editing / Removing your posts: For guidelines see here.
14. Social networks: Vaping in Australia should not be used to drive traffic to other forms of social media, if deemed inappropriate any such links may be removed with no redress.
15. Copyrighted Material: Please be mindful of posting others commercial information or property. See here
16. Items for Sales or Trade: Please see our classifieds rules here
16a Preparing and sending items on the classifieds: Please see guidelines here
17. Thread Bumping: Please do not bump threads with a single "bump" post - if you want to bump a thread, do it by adding something worthwhile to the debate. See the classified rules for specific rules regarding bumping in sales threads
18. Email Notifications: You can opt for the forum to send you email notifications with for events such as new Private Messages. If you choose to use this, you must not have an auto-responder on the email account that is receiving these emails as it causes unnecessary and annoying volumes of auto-responder emails to be sent to the admin staff. If you have an auto-responder, your email notifications will be disabled by a member of the admin staff.
19. Private Communications: Please respect the implied privacy regarding Private messaging. See here
20. Anonymous Email Addresses & VPN's: You must not register for Vaping in Australia with an anonymous email address. ViA staff reserve the right to delete accounts linked to anonymous email accounts and also to delete any comments if found to be coming from a VPN, if you aren't brave enough to stick behind your words, don't post them
If you register with a VPN, if discovered, your account will be declined until you register with an IP that isn't a VPN. If you post with a VPN, your post may be deleted and you may be moderated
21. Personal Information: You MUST NOT under any circumstances post a members "personally identifiable information" on the public forum.
This includes (but is not limited to) real name, address, e-mail address or telephone number. Offending posts will be edited or removed and action will be taken (including warnings, suspensions and bans) against anyone who breaches this rule
22. Posting Links on ViA: For specific guidelines see here
