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REGISTRATION |
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Registration to the PTEF Forum is free. Registration is necessary to prevent forum spam. Your private information will not be shared or used for solicitation. Posting is anonymous -- only your username will be visible to other users unless you choose to share additional information. We do insist that you abide by the rules and policies detailed below and any others that the PTEF may decide to implement. |
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CONTENT |
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Although the administrators and moderators of the PTEF Forum will attempt to keep objectionable messages off the PTEF Forum, it is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages, posts, private messages and articles express the views of the author, and the owners of the PTEF Forum will not be held responsible for the content of any message.
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COPYRIGHT |
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Any post or article published on the PTEF forum by a Member is the copyright of the Member and may not be reproduced, copied or otherwise re-published without the express permission of the Member. By posting on the Forum a Member grants the PTEF a non-exclusive license to publish, republish or reproduce their work, in its entirety or as the PTEF sees fit, in perpetuity. The Pike Township Educational Foundation is the copyright holder of the PTEF Forum. |
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PRIVACY |
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The PTEF is committed to safeguarding your online privacy and does not sell or share the information you provide during registration with any other organization. The PTEF Forum has a Privacy Statement which can be found in the FAQ. |
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MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT |
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By posting on the PTEF Forum you agree to abide by and follow the Guidelines and Rules. The PTEF may at any time amend, delete, and edit this agreement, and by continuing to post here you accept any such alterations. |
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FORUM GUIDELINES |
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Be civil and polite. The following are some of the behaviors that are not acceptable:
- Advocacy of suicide or of violence to others: If you tell someone to kill themselves, or to harm someone else, you will be suspended without prior warning. Example: "Go kill yourself."
- Sexual harassment: Defined as unwelcome sexual advances, sexual suggestions, or sexual content directed at another user, when reported. Generalized misogyny or misandry not directed at a specific user will not be considered "sexual harassment".
- Extremely cruel or hateful content directed toward another user: This includes content in private messages.
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FORUM RULES |
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By using this Forum, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws. The PTEF Forum reserves the right to remove, edit, move or close any post, thread, or article for any reason at any time.
- You will not post anything that is considered to be potentially criminal. The posting of computer viruses, child pornography, or links to computer viruses or child pornography is prohibited. Posts made under circumstances indicating a considered likelihood of inciting a violent or felonious act, or a subjective intention or knowledge that its content will be used for, or in furtherance of, any criminal purpose are also prohibited. Such posts will be moved off line and referred to proper legal channels.
- You will not post anything that is considered indecent, pornographic, obscene, or contains excessive reference to violence.
- You will not post any commercial advertisements.
- You will not post "copyright-protected1" material in its entirety, including "hotlinking2" to images or other media.
- You will not post anything that demonstrates a clear and present danger to the welfare of another person, or otherwise tends to create alarm or apprehension that the welfare of any person is in imminent jeopardy.
- You will not "spam" or "flood" the Forum.
- You may only have one membership account. Multiple accounts (sock puppets) are not permitted.
- You will not post profanity. You will not use profanity in our forums, and will neither post with language or content that is obscene, sexually oriented, or sexually suggestive nor link to sites that contain such content.
- You will not post a person's private information that is not otherwise publicly available.
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WARNINGS, SUSPENSION, BANNING, AND APPEALS |
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When possible, and where appropriate, requests and warnings will be issued publicly, in the thread where the Guideline or Rule violation occurs. Moderators or Administrators will send private messages with requests if they feel it is more appropriate to do so. Depending upon the severity of the violation, Moderators or Administrators may include a warning that continued violations will result in suspension. (Only Administrators are able to suspend users.) Members who have ignored prior warnings or committed a serious breach of their membership agreement may have their membership suspended for a period of time. If necessary a Member will be banned from the forum. |
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NOTES |
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1 The PTEF has adopted a policy of considering all published material copyrighted, including articles, images and other media. It is not the responsibility of the PTEF to determine whether or not the work is in the public domain or if the work may be republished without explicit permission of the copyright holder. Copyrighted content may be posted within the doctrine of "fair use" therefore quoting of brief portions of articles, books, emails, or bulletin board messages, relevant to discussion, is permitted. All quoted material should be credited to the original author or publisher and a link provided (when available) to the original work. It is not possible to declare precisely how much material may be quoted, as it will vary from article to article. We suggest quoting no more than a paragraph. Authors of copyrighted material may post their own work, provided they hold publishing rights to the material.
2 "Hotlinking" is using the [img] code to display material from another website in a post. An example would be using the [img] tag to display an image you found on someone else's web page so it will appear in your posts here. Some sites may allow hotlinking, especially image hosting sites, however it is up to the Member to ensure that is the case prior to using a "hotlink" to the content. It is not "hotlinking" to provide a link to content on another site.
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