[Jerry D]

Official Fan Forum Rules

Fan Forum Rules

1) No advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or solicitations are allowed on our forums. Links to other message boards or pornography are not permitted. These actions are known as trolling. Posters engaging in this type of behavior will lose their membership rights and be removed.

2) Be respectful. Not everyone is going to agree with you at all times. It is perfectly fine to disagree with someone as long as it is done respectfully. Do not attack a poster for not agreeing with you.

3) If you have a problem with anything or any person at Fan Forum (including your board's moderator), please do not deal with it on the board. Send an e-mail or a Private Message (PM) to a Moderator, Manager, or Administrator. E-mail or PM the person you have a problem with directly if you do not want to involve Fan Forum staff.

4) Before starting a new thread, 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.

5) Do not post in all caps! That'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.

6) Don't 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.

7) No spoilers are allowed except on the Spoilers board. 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 are not considered spoilers.

8) Do not post the same picture over and over in a thread. Don't quote pictures -- if you quote someone, please edit out the image before submitting your reply. If you don't follow these rules, your picture(s) will be deleted.

Also, please note that when you post pictures directly from another website, you’re basically using that site's bandwidth. Every time someone at FF views the picture on our boards, 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'd 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 if people click on the link.

9) Please do not start a thread asking how to post a picture or use other UBB code. We have a Questions and Answers board and a Newbies board where members can go for help and support; please take any questions you have about how the boards work there.

Contact Information for the Couples Board

If you have any questions or concerns, the Moderators for the Couples board are:

*Maxi* and StellaSlight

Please contact them with any problems you may have.

We also have a Management Team here at Fan Forum, and you can contact one of the Management Team members if you have any questions or concerns:

Chi159 - Moderator Manager

thelma - Moderator Manager

Johnnie - Technical Support Manager

Liz - Website Content Manager

Raonaild - Systems Manager

Jerry D - Administrator

If you have any questions or concerns about site policy, or if the moderators on this message board are unavailable, please contact Chi159 or thelma.

If you have any technical questions, please contact Johnnie.

Thanks for posting, and have fun!

[*Maxi*]

Couples Board Specific Rules

• Real life couple threads are ok, with the following exceptions:
  
  - No real life couple threads allowed for persons who aren't or haven't been officially a couple.
  
  - No real life couple threads allowed for Brendan Fehr or Bill Sadler (on specific demands from both actors)
  
• Please include the title of the show/movie etc. in your thread title!
  
  This is already covered in the general rules: "Please make sure your thread title accurately reflects what the thread is about"
  
  Yet this has been violated several times recently. We can't stresss enough how important it is following this rule. It makes navigating the board much easier for everyone.

[ 01-06-2004: Message edited *Maxi* ]

[StellaSlight]

Thanks for posting the rules, Jerry [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Don't hesitate to contact Maxi or myself if you have any question, concern, or just want to do so [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
We don't bite (gives toothache).

Anne

[*Maxi*]

[ 01-05-2004: Message edited *Maxi* ]

[blueangel]

[img]smilies/glow.gif[/img] Heh. I didn't know about Brendan or Bill.

[StellaSlight]

I've edited the rules because changes among the supermods have been operated.

Also, I wanted to say that recenly many new topics have been started without the title of the show.
Please don't forget to include the title of the show/book/movie if you want to start a thread. It is way too difficult to find a thread later when there's no title among all the other threads, especially when you don't know the show.
Maxi and I are pretty cool on the rules, but this one is important for the day-to-day running of the board. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]


Anne

[*Maxi*]

By the administration and management team of Fanforum: Hi everyone. Twice a year, sometime during the months of April and October, we’ll be doing official post counts to ensure that the message boards here at Fan Forum are busy and thriving. We’ve established a minimum sustained post count requirement of 100 posts per board per week for message boards to remain here at Fan Forum, and we’ll be “unofficially” checking the boards periodically to see where we stand. Certain message boards have been exempted from being subject to post count requirements either due to their unique nature or because they’re less than six months old, and you can check with one of your board moderators to see if the message board that you post on is on this exempt list. Therefore, if you want your favorite message boards to remain here at Fan Forum, we encourage every member here to post on their favorite message boards as often as they can. Thanks!

You like this board? Want to keep it? It's all in your hands. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

[StellaSlight]

Thanks Maxi for posting that [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

[*Maxi*]

This board did make it. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] We had 600+ posts a week on average during the month of April. [img]smilies/wiggle.gif[/img]