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Welcome to the BabyNames.com Community! You must read and agree to these rules before you participate. revised 8/2008 Violation of the rules will result in immediate suspension or termination of member's account. If you have any questions about particular guidelines or rules, or are concerned with violation of them, please contact one of the BabyNames member advisors or moderators via the private-messaging feature. NO DISRUPTING THE BOARDSWe take a zero-tolerance approach to members' disrupting the message boards, and members who do so will have their accounts terminated. Examples of disruptive posts include, but are not limited to, complaining on the boards about board policy or other members; posting messages for suspended or banned members; using BabyNames.com's resources to solicit other members for goods and services; and sarcastic, derogatory, defamatory, or humiliating posts directed to or about other members, moderators, administrators or administrative decisions. If you have a problem with another member or with a board policy, please contact an advisor or administrator, who will treat your grievance confidentially if you request. Please note that both the BabyNames.com Terms of Service and our Rules & Guidelines state that we have the right to remove any member or any post if, at our discretion, it's in the best interest of our community to do so. NO SOLICITING GIFTS, MONEY or MEMBERS We discourage members from giving money or gifts to other members of the board. Members may not send private messages or post threads soliciting money and/or free items from other members of the board. Posts that describe items you cannot afford or specific dollar amounts you need are considered soliciting and are subject to removal. BabyNames may not be used as a means of soliciting members for goods or services. Members who use other members' info to PM, email or instant-message other members about goods or services will have their accounts terminated. If trusted members own a legitimate business, we allow them to promote it by mentioning it once on ONE board, and by linking to their websites in their signature. If you have any questions about our policy, play it safe and send Sue or Snow a PM before promoting your business. Indirect or "passive" solicitations (how poor you are, how much you need to pay a certain bill) will be removed from the boards and the member will be warned. ALL CONTENT MUST BE CONSIDERED "G"-RATED The BabyNames.com message boards consist of children, teen and adult users. Inappropriate posts, images or chat conversations will be removed, and the initiating member will suspended or banned. Inappropriate language includes "faux swears" that substitute letters of vulgar words with characters or asterisks, or slightly modified versions of vulgar words. PHOTOGRAPH & COPYRIGHT POLICY You may post photographs within your profile and in the messages. However, be aware that it is illegal to use copyrighted photos from other sources, such as magazines, newspapers or other websites. You must have parental consent to post photos of children who are not your own... even for nieces, nephews, friends, students or daycare charges. For safety reasons, children must be clothed in all photographs. We expect our members to adhere to copyright law for content, as well as for images. You are permitted to quote 2-3 paragraphs from an article, web page, or other copyrighted source; but you may not share the entire article, story, song lyrics, etc. Please include a link to the original source, as well. NO IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION MAY BE POSTED FOR CHILDREN UNDER 18 For the safety of our children, please do not post identifiable information such as school names, last names or address information. Please do not post pictures of children other than your own, unless you have the express permission of the parents or guardians. That includes relatives and friends. Also, please don't link to a baby's website or photo page unless it's your baby. Minors (anyone under 18) are NOT allowed to participate in board exchanges, as that involves distributing their personal info to other members. NO THREATS ON OTHERS OR YOURSELF We take all posted threats seriously. If there is a post that threatens violence against another or against yourself including suicide, we will work with the user's ISP to bring the issue to local law-enforcement officials. ABOUT TROLLING AND FAKING Faking is not against the rules at Babynames.com; however, there are times when someone's faking can be disruptive and harmful to the community, such as in banned members' returning under aliases for the purpose of causing problems, or members' creating emotional dramas that are disruptive to the boards . If you feel someone may be faking and that it's disrupting the boards, please contact an advisor or moderator privately to discuss the matter. We have a zero-tolerance policy against trolling and cyberstalking, and do not tolerate the flaming or harassment of another member, since that activity in itself is far more harmful than the occasional faker. Members found to be accusing, shaming, confronting, demanding info from or otherwise trying to call out other members as fakers will have their accounts suspended or terminated. NO SHARING ACCOUNTS OR POSTS Sharing BabyNames subscription accounts between two or more people is prohibited, as is posting messages or photographs on behalf of banned members. (It's fine to post updates on behalf of former members who left on good terms, or who are on temporary breaks.) Members who post material from BabyNames to other message boards will have their accounts terminated. Banned members who try to rejoin BabyNames under different usernames will have their new accounts banned as well. Couples in longterm relationships who live in the same household may request approval to share an account - PM snow for details. REMOVAL The staff at BabyNames.com reserves the right to remove any post that we feel does not comply with the board rules. We also reserve the right to terminate any user account if we feel that user has violated a board rule, is intent on causing disruption or "trolling" the boards, or for any other reason that we, in our sole discretion, determine is in the best interest of our community. Thank you for keeping the boards a positive community! All times are GMT -7. The time now is 06:49 PM.
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