The Guidelines for the Birds of Prey Message Board

1. Impersonating others. Choose whatever name you wish for the boards but under NO circumstances will you intentionally impersonate another poster. Please use one name at a time and if you switch, make it known you're doing so--we want people to know with whom they speak, and we want to form a community. This rule also includes posting under multiple handles. Don't do it. You will get caught and you will get banned.

2. No profanity. Keep profanity to an absolute minimum. These are all-ages message boards and we want to maintain at the VERY WORST a PG-13 level of discourse.

3. No spam. Spam is defined as any message which does not relate to the topic of the message board and is solely posted to advertise a personal site, a money making scheme, a chain letter, or something of that nature. This includes posts that are nothing more than advertising your website regardless if the website is relevent to this board. Anyone can include a link to their personal (on or off-topic) websites in an on-topic post of substance. These links cannot be to sites that violate any rules of Comicboards.com, i.e. porn, money making schemes, etc. No posting about your personal sales or auctions of comics. PERIOD. If you have something up for auction, feel free to include a link to it in an on-topic post of substance. No posting of fan-fiction. NO VERSUS THREADS!!

4. Do not remote link to images from other sites as that steals their bandwidth. Save the images to your computer and ATTACH them to your message. Or sign up with an image hosting service. Any poster that does not follow this guideline will have his/her post deleted. Repeat offenders will banned.

5. No Pornography. Alvaro's ComicBoards.Com is a family-friendly group of message boards. Porn would be any nude or vulgar images or vulgar descriptions of private/intimate actions. Such messages should NEVER be posted and will likely get your ISP banned.

6. No Flames/Insults. Blatantly insulting behavior is prohibited. This includes insults to both posters and lurkers, including comic creators who are more likely to lurk than post. By all means feel free to critique the work--but not the person. Tempers may run high, but, keep all discussions civil, please. "Flame War" participants, regardless of "who started it", will be dealt with severely.

7. Off-Topic Threads. Off topic discussions will be tolerated to a small degree, but when instructed by the moderator to end a thread, you MUST cease and desist. Taking it to e-mail or the Community Board is the best solution.

8. Repeat Offenders. The moderator reserves the privilege of banning offenders from the boards, temporarily or permanently, without warning. You may be warned or you may not, at the moderator's discretion.

9. Bannings. Bannings and lesser disciplinary actions really should not be discussed on the boards. Those are matters best left to email between the poster and the moderator. If one has a question about their banning they should e-mail the moderator for explanations (the moderator's e-mail address is located where new messages begin). If you believe the moderator is not treating you fairly, the managers of ComicBoards.com can be emailed for their input.

10. Additional Guidelines. Individual boards may have additional rules which are to be followed as well. Additional rules will be created to deal with items not already covered.

The Beetle
Moderator of the Birds of Prey Message Board

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