[Johnnie]

Hi everyone!

I'm pleased to announce that we've added the following new message boards:

Matthew Fox

Taylor Swift

These boards were voted in by you, the members, through the Request board polls, and the new polls are up now, so start voting again!

The new submission thread is also up now, make sure the campaign is an active campaign before you submit something for the next set of polls otherwise it won't be accepted. After which time it'll need to stay active consistently or it won't make it to the next months polls. Please keep this in mind when submitting something to the polls.

Thanks! Johnnie

[-Andie-]

Hi everyone

First of all I’d like to thank everyone who participated in our Fan Forum Anniversary Paper Chase aka Hare & Hounds Game. I received more than 100 entries which is amazing. I hope that you all had a blast playing the game. The correct answers and the ten winners of a user name change can be found at this thread at the Info Center board. Please join me and everyone in the Management Team in extending our congratulations to all the winners.

[Jerry D]

Fan Forum Rules and Guidelines

Note: Any recent updates to these rules and guidelines will be shown in blue.

Hi everyone, and welcome to Fan Forum! We want your posting experience here to be an enjoyable one, so we’ve set rules and guidelines for the discussion forums on this website. We’ve divided these rules and guidelines into specific areas:

Basic Membership:
• No advertisements, chain letters or pyramid schemes are allowed on our forums. Solicitation of any kind, including direct linking to events such as charity auctions, is not permitted unless it’s pre-approved by the Management Team.
• Links to other entertainment message boards that are similar to the message boards that we have here at Fan Forum are not permitted. Links to pornography are also not permitted. These actions are known as trolling. Posters engaging in this type of behavior will lose their membership rights and be removed.
• Direct links to illegal television episode or music download websites are not permitted. The purpose of threads for television shows or music from those shows is to discuss those shows or that music, and they’re not meant to be used as a means to illegally download television episodes or songs.
• Be respectful. Not everyone is going to agree with you at all times. It’s perfectly fine to disagree with someone as long as it is done respectfully, but do not attack other posters. Please treat other members with the same respect and courtesy that you would want for yourself.
• Don’t register multiple accounts here. Using multiple accounts here can result in the loss of posting privileges for all of your registered accounts.
• Anti avatars, signatures, and thread titles should be respectful, related to the show, and only directed at the fictional characters. Anything considered by management to be derogatory towards real people will be removed and may warrant an infraction.

Note: Failure to adhere to the above rules can result in the loss of your posting privileges. Rule infractions may result in warnings or points assigned to members’ accounts at the discretion of the Moderator Managers and Website Administrator. Members who accumulate too many points will be automatically banned according to the following levels:

3 Points = 3 day ban
4 Points = 7 day ban
5 Points = 2 week ban
6 Points = Permanent ban

Conflict Resolution:
• If you have a problem with anything or any person at Fan Forum, don’t deal with it on the forums here. Please send a Private Message (PM) to a Moderator or a Moderator Manager describing the problem, and they’ll work with you to try and get the problem resolved. If you have a problem with a moderator on one of the boards that you post on, send a Private Message to a Moderator Manager describing the problem. Do not contact one of the co-moderators of the moderator that you're having problems with, as it’s the Moderator Managers’ responsibility to resolve disputes between members and moderators in a fair and impartial way. You can also send a Private Message to the person that you're having a problem with directly if you do not want to involve the Fan Forum staff.

Posting Etiquette:
• Fan Forum is considered to be a PG-13 forum community, so please keep that in mind when posting here.
• Before starting a new thread, please look to see if there already is a topic discussing the same thing. Duplicate threads will be closed down. Also, please make sure your thread title accurately reflects what the thread is about.
• Keep “chatting” type conversations down to a minimum on the discussion threads on our forums, as they detract from legitimate discussions. Every forum on this website has an off topic thread where you can chat with your fellow posters, so use those threads for that purpose.
• Do not post in all caps, as it’s considered Internet lingo for yelling. If a thread title or post is typed in all caps, it will be edited or deleted. dO nOt PoSt LiKe THiS, eItHEr (this is also known as sticky caps). Also, don’t abuse the privilege of being able to post using different font sizes and colors, or your post will also be edited or deleted.
• Do not bump threads, or post solely to increase your post count. This is called “star posting,” and doing it can result in the loss of posting privileges. Also, don’t post sequentially on a thread (meaning don’t post right after yourself) just edit your first post if you have something to add to what you originally said.
• When a continuation thread has reached 300 posts, please start a new thread.

Posting Pictures:
• Do not post the same picture or avatar (icon) over and over in a thread. Also, do not quote pictures or avatars (icons) - if you quote someone, please edit out the image before submitting your reply. If you don’t follow these rules, your picture(s) or avatar(s) (icon(s)) will be deleted.
• Please note that when you post pictures directly from another website, (also known as hot linking) you’re basically using that website’s bandwidth. Every time someone at Fan Forum views the picture on our forums, the owner of the website that hosts the image gets charged for bandwidth use. This is known as “bandwidth theft.” We would prefer it if you would post a text link to the picture using the [ url ] tag instead of displaying the picture in a post using the [ img ] tag, because then the owner of the website only gets charged for bandwidth use if people click on the link.
• Please don’t post pictures any wider than 800 pixels so you don’t stretch the post table. In consideration of members on dial-up, please post links to larger pictures (also known as HQ pictures) or post thumbnails of those pictures.
• Please respect people’s privacy and don’t post any celebrity pictures from private sources. This includes fan art (manipulations, wallpapers, avatars etc.) made from such pictures.
• Please be aware that the message boards here are public forums, so if you post pictures of yourself or any other personal information on these forums, that information can be viewed and copied anywhere on the Internet.

Questions and Information:
• We have an Info Center Forum where members can go for help and support, so please take any questions you have about how the boards work there. Please note that Guests (meaning people that haven’t registered here yet) can post on this forum, but they can’t post on any other forum here until they register as a member here.
• There is a thread on the Info Center Forum called Index & Introductions that is very helpful to new members, and we also have a Questions thread on that forum where you can find out information about this website and your account here.

Fan Fiction:
• You can directly post fan fiction and open threads to discuss fan fiction on the individual message boards here.
• You can link to Fan Fiction websites, but you can’t link to other Fan Fiction message boards.

Spoilers:

• No spoilers about any new or current television shows are allowed on the television show forums, and they should only be posted on the Spoilers Forum. Information is considered to be a spoiler if it details something that has not yet been broadcast anywhere in the world. Promos that have already aired on television and small episode descriptions are not considered to be spoilers.
• Spoilers are allowed on the Male and Female Celebrity Forums as long as the spoilers are limited to information about the character that the actor or actress is playing on the television show that they’re on, and they’re not about the overall show. Spoilers on these forums should only be posted to discuss the upcoming work of the actor or actress, and they must be posted in separate topics and be clearly identified with the word Spoiler in the title.
• Spoiler threads for upcoming movies are permitted on the Movies forum or on forums that are devoted to a movie franchise, as long as they're clearly identified with the word Spoiler in the title. Spoilers should not be discussed on the general threads on these forums.

Pictures
• Pictures from promos that have already aired on television, been shown at the movie theatre, or are from general promotional material at official websites or published in magazines are not considered to be spoilers.
• Pictures of clips, episode stills and filming pictures of scenes from an upcoming episode or movie that are available on the Internet and have not been aired on television or have not been shown at the movie theatre before the movie is released are considered to be spoilerish, and they should only be posted in designated threads for the upcoming episode or movie.

Avatars
• Avatars made from promos that have already aired on television, been shown at the movie theatre, or are from general promotional material at official websites or published in magazines are not considered to be spoilers.
• Avatars made from pictures of clips, episode stills from official websites, and filming pictures of scenes from an upcoming episode or movie should not be used until after the episode airs or until the movie is released, because avatars can be seen all over Fan Forum, and we want to respect the wishes of members that don’t want to see any spoilers for an upcoming episode.

Episode descriptions
• Small snippets/blurbs from TV Guide/Entertainment Weekly etc. are fine.
• Longer episode descriptions (like for example the ones FOX provides), are considered to be spoilerish and should just be discussed on the episode discussion thread until the episode airs or they should be posted with spoiler tags in various threads on the television boards here.

Signatures:
• You may use normal font options like bolding, italics and colors, but the largest font size allowed in a signature is Size 3.
• The only thing allowed in a signature other than text are Fan Forum smilies, up to a maximum of four.
• Links to other websites are fine, but direct links to other message boards are not allowed.
• Signature blocks should be no taller than a 100 X 100 avatar.

Members can check each forum to see if they have any rules in addition to the site-wide rules listed here, and please contact the forum moderators if you have any questions about those additional rules.

The Fan Forum Management Team:

Jerry D: Administrator – Overall responsibility for Fan Forum and the direction that this website will be taking in the future, along with Goldenboy, who is the owner of Fan Forum. He oversees the Management Team.

Raonaild: System Manager –Responsible for overseeing all server and software issues along with Goldenboy.

Johnnie: Website Manager – Responsible for overseeing the Requests System, which is used to add new message boards at Fan Forum, and he manages the Moderator Support Team.

-Andie-: Moderator Manager – Responsible for helping to pick new moderators and for overseeing the Moderator Team along with the other Moderator Managers. She’s one of the main contact people for the moderators and members when they have questions about site policy.

Chris: Moderator Manager – Responsible for helping to pick new moderators and for overseeing the Moderator Team along with the other Moderator Managers. She’s one of the main contact people for the moderators and members when they have questions about site policy.

globe2912: Moderator Manager – Responsible for helping to pick new moderators and for overseeing the Moderator Team along with the other Moderator Managers. She’s one of the main contact people for the moderators and members when they have questions about site policy.

Mandy: Moderator Manager – Responsible for helping to pick new moderators and for overseeing the Moderator Team along with the other Moderator Managers. She’s one of the main contact people for the moderators and members when they have questions about site policy.

Strider: Moderator Manager – Responsible for helping to pick new moderators and for overseeing the Moderator Team along with the other Moderator Managers. He’s one of the main contact people for the moderators and members when they have questions about site policy.

Wildfire Girl: Moderator Manager – Responsible for helping to pick new moderators and for overseeing the Moderator Team along with the other Moderator Managers. She’s one of the main contact people for the moderators and members when they have questions about site policy.

Yellow Mustang Girl: Moderator Manager – Responsible for helping to pick new moderators and for overseeing the Moderator Team along with the other Moderator Managers. She’s one of the main contact people for the moderators and members when they have questions about site policy.

Pav: Affiliates Manager – Responsible for overseeing the Affiliates Team. This team is responsible for contacting webmasters of entertainment related websites and coordinating with them to be added as either a Forum Affiliate or a General Affiliate. Please follow this link to see what websites are Forum Affiliates or General Affiliates.

Scythe: Graphics Team Manager - Responsible for overseeing the Graphics Team. This team is responsible for designing custom graphics and colors for every message board at Fan Forum. She’s the main contact person for the moderators and members when they have questions about the Message Board Customization Process, and she keeps everyone updated about the status of board customizations on the Info Center Forum and on the forums that are being customized.

If you have any questions or concerns about site policy, or if the moderators on this message board are unavailable, please contact one of the Moderator Managers.

Thanks for being a member here, and have fun!