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Darat · 1st March 2010, 05:19 AM

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.

1st March 2010, 05:19 AM	#5
Darat Lackey Administrator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 115,308	Rule 6 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.
	__________________ “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago Last edited by Darat; 20th March 2015 at 04:10 AM. Reason: Removed references to JREF and reworded charitable purposes exemption bit.: reverted back to old style Rule 6