Community Rules

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jobs.stuffiminto.com Community Rules

Spammers - don't bother registering! Your posts and accounts will be deleted without warning. We vigilantly monitor for SPAM and you will be wasting your time.

This forum is both free and democratically run. What does this mean?

1. It will NEVER cost you any money to use this forum
2. Many forums like to tell you you are lucky to be a member in "their forum." stufffiminto is different. This is *your* forum and it *IS* a democracy! All users are created equal and there is no moderation of posts. Our users can flag/report posts democratically. Enjoy your freedom!

This is a community of individuals who share a common interest in searching for jobs, as well as posting job openings. Please think before you post and keep your comments limited to the topic at hand and above all be nice. If you come across any violations to these guidelines please do not hesitate to use the flagging/reporting system.

Be Courteous!
We aim to ensure that the forum is an enjoyable place that you want to visit time and time again. Our underlying philosophy is that the strength of the member relationships and democracy we build here is what sets us apart from the other boards - we are friendlier, more civil, more insightful and more free and democratic than other forums.

When flagging/reporting a post, be sure it is one of the following prohibited post types:

* A Personal Attack - Assaults the character of the person, rather than engages in constructive conversation/criticism.
* Unsubstantiated gossip, libelous remarks or directly misleading information.
* Commercial post (unrelated to SPAM) - This is when a member other members the "hard sell" for their services.
* Repeat/Duplicate Posts - Same post in multiple places on the forum.
* Languages other than English - If you are not a native English speaker, do your best.
* Illegal and Inappropriate Content - These include posts and links to: child porn, porn, drugs, copyrighted material and other illegal items

Be Ethical!
Many participants have commercial interests associated with the forum topic and bring valuable information and expertise to share. With a few specific exceptions, participants may not use the Forum for commercial gain. If you are on the forum to gain customers, absolutely NO OVER ADVERTISING will be allowed (except in the job posting section). If you have a commercial interest, simply participating in the discussion and proving your expertise is the best way to gaining more sales. Heavy selling is prohibited.

* Participants may not post to direct others to any pages at their own commercial website or website in which they have a commercial interest. Exception to this may be found in Signature standards (see below).
* Participants may not use the main Forums to direct others to the advertising Forums.
* Participants may not send out SPAM via our Private Message system.
* Members may have only one account. If duplicate accounts are discovered, they will be deleted or merged.
* Our user base is not a resource to be "mined" by individuals, groups, or businesses, for profit or not for profit.
* Participants may not bump threads unnecessarily. Bumping is posting useless information, posting one-liners or any other action to deliberately keep a thread hot.
* Trolling or cyber-bullying are NOT allowed and are grounds for account restriction or banishment. Trolling on this board includes posting controversial and often irrelevant or off-topic messages with the intention of (or anticipated result of) baiting other users into an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal, harmonious on-topic discussion, especially when a pattern of such posting is apparent.

Posting standards:
Forum members may use standard fonts available on the forum. The standard font size is 2. The use of bold, large or colored fonts should be used sparingly. Posts containing inappropriate formatting will be removed or modified at our discretion; e.g. all caps or excessive color. E-mail and web address are not appropriate forum user names.

About the First Amendment, censorship and your "right to free speech":
You do indeed have an absolute right to free speech. This board, unlike most other boards out there allows you to exercise this right in a fully democratic fashion. Essentially, our entire user base votes by flagging/reporting posts that violate these rules. If your post violated these rules and was deleted by our automated system, don't be angry. Take a deep breath, sit back and think about why the post may have been a violation. No moderator is here to delete posts on a whim. Only the community itself can cause a post to be deleted. On the other side of things, DO NOT ABUSE THE POST FLAGGING AND REPORTING SYSTEM. All flags/reports are logged. If it is found that you have flagged a post multiple times, or used this system to attack another member (we check this carefully), you will be banned from the board. There are no second chances when it comes to abusing the flagging and reporting system.

Do not post protected / copyrighted content:
Information copyrighted or owned by any individual or entity other than the member should not be posted on the discussion forums without the consent of the owner. Copyrighted material includes images and text produced and owned by others. If such an event occurs, the individual posting the information shall be held solely responsible. You cannot legally post entire articles or news in the forum without permission from the copyright holder. Even if you attribute the article correctly it’s still copyright infringement. Under Fair Use provisions you can legally post a small abstract of an article - or perhaps the opening paragraph. The exception to this rule is press releases; they are meant for distribution and can be copied and distributed. If you are not sure if you can copy something then always err on the side of caution and simply post a link to the material.

Signature Standards:
Signatures must be setup in your profile rather than manually added to your messages. They will appear at the bottom of every post you make.

* Signatures must be kept to a maximum of three lines (including blank lines) and contain no more than one link.
* Signature may not include email addresses, links to competing websites, prompts to contact or a sales pitch.
* Signatures must follow our forums posting standards and only one line may be bolded.

Disabling accounts:
We may delete accounts that have no posts. If the account has many posts, completely deleting the account can significantly disrupt thread continuity. In that event, we may (if requested) disable your account. When we disable your account we do the following:

• Change the user name.
• Remove signature content
• Remove any info from the profile that might be identifying or replace it with fictitious info
• Remove all subscriptions
• Remove avatar
• Remove e-mail address or alter as well as personal web site info
• Change account options to refuse PM's and E-mails from users and admins
• After doing all this - ban account

Where you make use of the communication features to share information with other individuals, however, (e.g., sending a personal message to another Forum user) we generally cannot remove such communications. Also, if someone quoted your post, the original user name will be shown as having been quoted (which we cannot purge out).

If you would like to disable your account, please use the contact us form at the bottom of the page to make this request.