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NOTICE TO SPAMMERS AND OTHER WOULD-BE COMMERCIAL ADVERTISERS:
We block all known spammers and you will not be told your registration has been rejected. If you get through the filtering process and then post spam, your account will be deleted, along with all posts from you, and we will add you to the Stop Forum Spam central database. Occasionally we may keep a post of yours, just so we can ridicule your product or service. Basically, don't even try to spam this forum.
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Everyone hates rules, but lots of people have been asking for an indication of the forum "ethos".
1. Be excellent to each other.
2. Party on, dudes.
3. Before you post, think about the kind of forum you want.
4. Please don't do anything that will get the admins into trouble. Specifically, this means
No inline images or avatars containing porn, goatse, anything you might see on rotten.com or anything likely to upset or seriously offend. If in doubt, leave it as a URL with an appropriate warning or don't post it. We are a family forum.
Keep thread titles clean, even in NSFW.
No selling of anything illegal, nicked or copyright-infringing. We don't strongly object to eBay links, but they get rather tedious and defeat the advantage of trading among your friends.
5. Like Voltaire, we'll defend to the death your right to make your point, however unpopular it may be. However, you do not have a right to flame other members, call them scum or bully them.
6. The admins have given the moderators free rein to control content and will support their decisions. It is not good form to complain publicly about moderation.
7. Please, please try and use the most appropriate board when starting a new topic. We'd like to keep the signal-to-noise ratio high in the cycling related boards, so they're a useful resource. The Pub is a better place to chat. Politics threads (unless they belong in On The Road) MUST go into Politics and Big Issues. The Politics and Other Big Issues board is opt-in (Profile...Summary...Modify Profile...Group Membership).
8. Special rule (and this really is a rule): derogatory or strongly opinionated posts and threads about other Internet forums or their administrators will be moved or deleted. We do not normally post a "moved topic" message in these cases.
9. All posts are the responsibility and the property of the people who posted them. Like any useful forum, this one is not pre-moderated so, if you post something potentially libellous and get sued, we're not interested. If you insist that we pull someone else's post by threatening us with legal action we will do so, as case law has recently established that we have this obligation. The price you pay for this is that your forum membership will be terminated, so this is a one-way deal.
10. We allow you to upload avatars to the forum, so you don't need your own webspace. These must be under 40k and we will remove any avatars we find that exceed this limit.
