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Posting
Rules & Guidelines: |
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#1
The content of your post
should be worthy of discussion. |
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Oversimplified
comments such as "I like polka music," or "I agree,"
only waste space. Also, personal messages to others such as "Hey
George, can I stop
by tonight and borrow your accordion?" are best handled via
email. |
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#2
Commercial advertising is prohibited. |
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Only
fundraisers and benefits may be freely advertised provided that 100% of
the net proceeds goes directly toward an individual or non-profit
organization and none of the
bands/musicians is compensated for their
performance. |
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We impose
this rule
only to be fair to our sponsors; they pay to advertise on this website,
so we cannot allow others to advertise for free. We offer very affordable, paid
advertising
opportunities for bands,
clubs,
dance organizers, tour groups, radio stations, and other business (both
for-profit and non-profit) to promote
themselves and/or their events. |
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We
understand that some unintentional advertising may happen
within the course of a discussion, which is fine, but posts cannot
specifically be written for the sake of advertising. This
includes masked
advertising (posting a message for the purpose of slipping in a
discreet
advertisement). |
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Important
topics such as the formation of a new band or the closing of a dance
hall are considered newsworthy and not advertising. |
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#3
Do not post copyrighted information without proper credits. |
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When
posting information gathered from other
sources (articles, obituaries, photos, etc.) at the very least, please
cite your
sources. If you obtained the information online, provide a link
to the web page on which you found the information. |
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#4
Vulgar language and verbal abuse will
not be
tolerated. |
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This
includes
harsh
language and comments that
specifically target
and
debase another individual (excluding well-known and/or controversial
celebrities). |
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#5
Please look
at the other
subject
lines to see if others are already discussing the topic you want to
write about. |
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Before
you
post a new
message, please browse the subject lines of the other messages
first. If
the topic you want to discuss is already being discussed, post your
message as a reply under that topic. This will help the message
board from becoming unnecessarily cluttered. We reserve the right
to relocate
posts as we see fit. |
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#6
Do not post personal/private
information about
anyone
without their
consent. |
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Do
not post anyone's phone number, home address,
middle name, etc. in a message unless you have their
permission to do so. (This only applies to information
that is
not already publicized.) We will remove posts that we feel
may violates someone's privacy. |
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#7
Debate
maturely. |
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Occasionally,
hot topics arise in this forum. Keep the tone of your opinions
civil. Posts specifically written to incite public rage
will be deleted at our discretion. |
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For advanced users:
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#8 Keep
linked
graphics small for the benefit of those who have slow internet access. |
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HTML
coding is allowed in messages. If
you link to one or more graphics/photos so that the graphics appear in
the body of the message, please try to limit the total file
sizes of the
graphics to 100kb/message. |
