General Rules

emil · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:14 pm Post subject: General Rules

• While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters.

• Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts.

• Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.

• Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum email and Private message system to spam other members.

• Please wait a reasonable amount of time before bumping posts.

• We also do not allow posts that are sexual in nature or violate this community standard. The SPINNAKERWEB team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.

• Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed.

• Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.

• While we are quite happy to have constructive comparative conversations about competitor's products, we will not tolerate blatant adverts or the sort of 'ooh look, yet another sailing news site' threads. Also, we would appreciate it if you refrain from blatant bashing of other news site.

• We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.

• If you are going to post non-English on these forums, please also post an English Translation of your post.

• Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.

• You cannot post any affiliate or referral links, or post anything asking for a referral. Such posts will be subject to removal.

• You cannot post advertisements or notices for contests.

• We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules, as access to our support forums are a privilege and not a right.

Any threads/posts of these types will be deleted.