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Forum Terms & Rules

1. No email ID, phone number or similar personal information are permitted when creating a new member ID.
2. No advertising or links to advertising or "Spam" is permitted (including signatures).
• Advertising or Spam is defined as posting a link for the purpose of selling, soliciting or promoting by someone that has ownership or other "vested interest" to the web site involved, including efforts to promote other online forums or web sites by web site owners. Chain letters and junk mail are also strictly prohibited. Topics/posts that contain such content will be, edited, locked, or deleted. The Group Buy Section is the only section where group buys are permitted and meant to have a group of members buying a product that is not available and may be provided for the rest of our members for FREE. This section is ran and moderated by a staff member and only this staff member will initiate or approve a group purchase.
• Posts and links about fund raising (including nonprofit fundraisers) are NOT permitted.
• Only links to personal home pages are allowed in signatures and member profiles. Links must be appropriate and abide by rules founded in this page.
• Links to helpful web sites (commercial or otherwise) are allowed when they are posted by someone without any "vested interest" AND whose purpose is NOT to solicit, advertise, promote, fund raise, etc.
• Public posting of your email ID and/or any communication service ID such as SMS, MSN IDs, Skype etc... is not permitted.
3. No posts that attack, insult, "flame", defame, or abuse members or non-members. Material that is knowingly defamatory, illegal, abusive, threatening or harassing is strictly prohibited. As with anything, you, as a member, should use good common sense when posting. In other words, you agree to maintain professionalism at all times. Posts containing personal attacks on another user will be edited or deleted with no warning or consent.
4. Right to Privacy. You will not violate a person's privacy by publishing any information against another member’s will, information that is private and personal.
5. No use of explicit, obscene or vulgar language or images and/or messages, including racist remarks and porn topics.
• Topics/posts containing such will be edited or deleted accordingly.
6. No discussion of any illegal activity or threats of violence. (I.e. illicit drug use or exchange, threats of suicide or self-injury, or threatened or intended physical harm). Discussions of suicide or self-harm that are deemed negative and therefore potentially injurious to others are also not permitted.
7. Warez. Providing or asking for information on how to illegally obtain "Warez", "games" or any other software or work protected by copyright law isn’t related to us. None of the files are hosted on our web server neither administrators nor staff are involved in any of the Warez sharing part. If you find that your legal material is being shared drop please contact the administrators of the forum.
8. Virus, Malware and Adware Posting links leading to virus, malware, adware, etc. is forbidden. Any violation of this rule, your account will be banned without prior warning and the thread will be edited or deleted accordingly. As a warning to our users, you should be vigilant when clicking on links and exercise the same caution as you would on other sites.
9. Post Pumping If a post is suspected to serve no other purpose than to increase the post count of the poster, then the moderators may, at their discretion, issue a PM to the member in question inquiring about the nature of the post. Posts/Threads that are blatantly post pumping will be removed or locked without recourse to the poster.
10. Cross-posting the same question in more than one section is not allowed. Should this occur, then only the thread in the most relevant forum will be left open; all others will be locked and subsequently deleted.
11. Naming Names. Naming people or their characters in a negative manor is not permitted. A simple misunderstanding, can lead to a negative reaction.
12. Posting on Behalf of Banned Users. Banned users have violated a policy or rule of this forum. Banned users may not ask other users to post on the forums on their behalf.
13. No lengthy signatures. To keep the page loading time and visual annoyance factor down to a minimum, ensure your graphical signatures do not exceed a maximum of 12,500 pixels or 15 kilobytes file size, whichever is reached first. Alternatively, three lines of text can be used as a signature. Do not pad out your text lines with blanks lines. A line of text is defined such that it does not wrap when viewed at a resolution of 640x480. If these limits are exceeded then you may be contacted by a moderator requesting an amendment to your signature. If none is made within a reasonable period of time, then a moderator may remove your signature from your profile.
14. No use of multiple usernames. Please register and use only one username for the forum. Posting under multiple user accounts will result in administrative action (i.e. banning).
15. No posts of an overtly political or religious nature OR posts promoting advocacy of particular personal, medical, legal, religious, political, or non-profit causes. The forums are intended for offering mutual personal support. Debating controversial subjects should be taken elsewhere. Limited religious references are allowed (i.e. "my prayers are with you" or a brief quote as part of a larger post), but the forums should not be used to convert others.
16. No cryptic posts. Using cryptic messages to "skirt" the rules is not permitted.
17. If it shouldn’t be viewed by minors, then it shouldn’t be posted to the forums or chat rooms. This is a public, family-friendly forum. In addition, if something would not be considered “work safe” (to a boss or co-worker), then it shouldn’t be posted.
18. Do not disrespect moderators. Be respectful in both the forums and any private communications with moderators. Moderators are volunteers that donate a considerable amount of their personal time to help in forum’s moderation and chat room. Violating this rule will not be tolerated.
19. No SHOUTING. Remember, using ALL CAPITAL LETTERS in posts is considered yelling and rude, plus it is difficult to read.
20. Do not post offline personal contact information (i.e. your home address, phone numbers etc.) and do not ask for personal information from others. Modify your member profile in the Control Panel (CP) at the top right corner of the forum to set privacy settings for your account. Use of full names (your first and last name) is allowed but strongly discouraged. This is to protect your security and identity.
21. No duplicate posts. To delete accidental duplicate posts, login first, then open the message you want to delete, then select the Delete Post button on the bottom right hand corner of the message box.
22. No irrelevant or off-topic posts. Posts which are not relevant to the forum topic may be deleted at the moderator's discretion.
23. Do not sell certification books or materials using our forums.
First of all, we would like to keep the site alive and avoid any trading gatherings in the forum. Second, we respect the right of publishers and authors to earn a good wage for their hard work but at the end we don’t host anything here, all the materials are founded on upload sites so if you think we exposed your materials for free on our forum then contact the uploaded site itself.
24. Do not send the Forum Team Private Messaging or use The Report Button for requests with non administrative nature such as how to download or find materials as an example.
25. Don't tread on us. Any attempts to breach our security, tamper with the forums, or circumvent our ban control will be prosecuted.
26. All the Group Purchase material will be provided with watermarks containing username of contributing user and (or) there real name obtained from PayPal Transaction. This is to safeguard against leaking of material.
27. Please note that no request of deleting an account will be granted after being signed in to join our forum.
By not complying with these rules, your account may be suspended or banned without prior warning.