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• While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters.
• Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.
• Do not post off-topic. Please keep your comments consistent with the subject and purpose of the conversation thread. Deliberate disruption -- such as consistent off-topic and/or frivolous commentary -- will not be tolerated such posts will be deleted or redirected to our general chat area.
• Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.
• Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum email and Private message system to spam other members.
• Please wait a reasonable amount of time before bumping posts.
• No all-caps (FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE THIS) or all-bolds please. It is extremely hard to read. Posts submitted in all-caps or all-bolds will be deleted automatically.
• We also do not allow posts that are sexual in nature or violate Bernina Central community standards. The Bernina Central Forum team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards. These rules are subject to change as we cannot anticipate all circumstances that result in new rules.
• Discussion of illegal activities are not allowed.
• Please do not have personal conversations within the threads.
• We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
• If you are going to post non-English on these forums, please also post an English Translation of your post.
• Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
• While these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.
• We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules, as access to our support forums are a privilege and not a right. Any threads/posts of these types will be deleted.
• BerninaCentral.com and its moderators reserve the right to delete posts and/or whole conversations we determine are of an irrelevant, abusive or disruptive nature.
• Although we love the extra information and sources you bring to this community, due to copyright and space issues, please do not quote entire news articles from other sources; small excerpts and/or a link keeps things legal. Please provide a link to the source.
• Also, to keep the discussion and dialogue moving, please keep posts to a reasonable length. Excessively long posts will be deleted.
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Advertising Services and Solicitation
We do not allow people to post threads or to send private messages or emails to users here that advertise or solicit any products, services, funds or donations. Explicit advertising and solicitating in signatures is also prohibited.
Avatars
The maximum avatar size allowable is 80 x 80 pixels or 6144 bytes.
Animated avatars are not allowed.
Images
Attached images to posts are allowed at this time. The maximum image size allowed is 100 x 100 pixels. Please add images only if they are absolutely needed. Although we all love images, we do not have unlimited server space. We appreciate your understanding.
Signature Size Limits
All signatures should not exceed the following 255 characters, 5 links and 2 smilies. No images are allowed.
Duplicate links to the same URL in a signature are not allowed.
(Forum rules were re-posted on August 28th because of an error on my part!
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