Forum Rules

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We do not aim to censor posts as long as they fall inside the rules and guidelines. We welcome debate and views expressed from every angle, and we do not take a stance for or against any wildlife or environment topic. However, we ask that all political discussions be kept relatively light-hearted.

We reserve the right to move, modify or delete posts or threads, without explanation, and may take further action to disable the offender's account at the discretion of the moderators.

Registration

  • You are allowed only one account.
  • You are responsible for all posts from your account.
  • You may not post on behalf of any member who has had their account frozen

General Conduct

  • No poaching - don't use this website to recruit members or content for other sites
  • Be polite - respect other members and their opinions. We will not tolerate rudeness and any member who is intentionally unpleasant or disruptive may have their membership removed without warning.
  • Don't be creepy! You know the sort of guys we're talking about. Don't be one of those guys!
  • Keep it legal - Do not encourage or promote any illegal activity.
  • All content must be in English and not abbreviated texting or slang
  • You may not post censored words or URLs by substituting, adding or removing characters.
  • Please do not post heavily religious or party political statements on the site.
  • Do not request or give out personal information such as home address, telephone number or any other contact details
  • Do not make incomplete posts that enourage visitors to visit external sites to view the remaining content - also see external links
  • Do not link or promote to sites or images containing sexually explicit, offensive or illegal content - also see external links

The following activities are not allowed:

  • Spam - referencing any product, service, website or organisation more than once every 50 posts will likely result in all references being removed.
  • Signature Spam - making posts to show your signature
  • Post Spam - making short replies with the purpose of increasing one's post count
  • Bump Threads - posting to deliberately take a thread to the top of the recent forum posts
  • Cross-Post - posting duplicate threads or posts, or linking to threads or posts to promote them or keep the subject visible
  • Hijacking - taking a thread off topic
  • Thread Trashing - posting negative comments about topics, or suggesting that threads be closed, just because they do not interest you or disagree with the content.
  • Flaming - doing anything to personally insult, degrade, belittle, or demean another member.
  • Colouring Text - to hide content in the background

Private Messages

  • All forum posting rules also apply to private messages
  • The administrator has access to read all Private Messages.
  • You may not make public the content of any other member's private messages without their prior consent.

Signatures

  • Signatures must be no more than two lines of default-sized black text
  • The signature should not be displayed in the text area of each post, but submitted via the signature box of the member control panel.
  • Signatures can include a single reciprocal link to a non-commercial wildlife/environment website

Commercial Activity

  • You may not solicit any external source to post on this forum regarding any current or future company, services, or products that you are associated with.
  • You may not make any posts that are commercial by nature.
  • Do not advertise any products, services or suppliers for sale now or in the future.
  • You may not repeatedly recommend or promote any product, service or organisation
  • You may not post commission, referral or affiliate links - also see external links

Tips

  • If you have problems with another member, please forward your concern to a moderator or administrator.
  • Use emoticons/smilies to clarify the intended emotion of your posts
  • Public posts debating these rules, terms and conditions and/or moderators' enforcement of such, may be removed without comment. However, we encourage feedback and invite you to contact us via PM if you have any questions or concerns.

 

Images


Avoid posting images or links to images on external websites. Instead, upload your images to the 'forum images' section of the Wild About Britain gallery, then cut and paste the 'Forum Images Code' under the photograph into your posts to show your pictures in forum threads - see External Images. In rare and special circumstances we may allow externally linked images, but if we think the system is being abused then we'll remove all of your links and possibly close your account, so it's best to check with a moderator before posting any.