E4
This rule is intended to cover various kinds of disruptive posting, primarily posting of commercial advertisements and spamming or flooding the forum by repeatedly posting identical, or very similar, content. It also covers such things as posting extremely large pictures that cause the page to display in an unusual manner and using excessive amounts of formatting such as large fonts, colour, and smilies that can make a thread difficult to read or even inaccessible.
Members are not permitted to use the Forum for commercial purposes. This means that, aside from the exceptions listed below, Members must not solicit funds, goods or services for commercial purposes, and must not advertise or promote products for commercial purposes within posts.
Exceptions to this are:
- Incidental reference to personal commercial sites in the form of URLs is allowed in signature lines.
- Published authors, musicians and artists are allowed to reference their work (and its availability) within reason.
If in doubt whether something will be classed as a "commercial purpose" in regards to
Rule 6 please contact a member of the moderating Team
before making such a post or starting a thread.
Charitable activities are allowed however please check with a member of the Moderating Team
beforehand.