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We ask very nicely that you help us achieve these goals and refrain from anything that may hinder this by offending people and turning away members.

Do not:

• Post offensive content - Material that is sexually or otherwise obscene, racist, or otherwise overly discriminatory is not permitted on these forums. This includes profile pictures. Please use common sense.
• Flame - Do not post messages that are deliberately hostile and insulting.

Please be civil - Keep it nice, keep it real and keep it clean. Though some of our topics and discussion threads may prompt debate and raise emotions, this is no excuse to devolve into name-callers.

BuildaBridge Discussion Board Standards

About Discussion Boards

The Discussion Board consists of postings from members of the BuildaBridge community. The Board is available for open discussion and the free exchange of ideas. The individual postings are not edited for content, style, or errors of any kind. However, the Discussion Board best serves the public when everyone follows basic standards of conduct. Your privilege to use and contribute to the Board depends on your compliance with the guidelines below. BuildaBridge may revoke your registration privileges and / or take further measures to enforce said guidelines if violations are brought to our attention.

Discussion Board Guidelines

As a poster, you are entirely responsible and liable for all activities conducted through your postings (one of the oldest discussion boards out there, The WELL, maintains a motto, “YOYOW...You Own Your Own Words”). Along these lines, we do not allow anonymous posts; we do require all posters to register with a username and valid e-mail address. Listed below are examples of some, but not all, violations that may result in BuildaBridge.org terminating your account or deleting content you have posted. By registering with BuildaBridge.org or posting content, you agree to not engage in any of the following acts:

• Harass, threaten, embarrass, or cause distress upon any other Discussion Board participant, BuildaBridge.org member, employee, officer, host, or any other individual or group.
• Impersonate any person, particularly a BuildaBridge.org employee, officer, or host.
• Transmit via the BuildaBridge Discussion Board any information, data, text, files, links, software, or any other material that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, libelous, obscene, pornographic, anything that is racially, religiously or ethnically hateful, or any other 'speech' not protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, or transmit any other content that would give rise to liability or violates the law.
• Post or transmit any information, software, or other materials that violates or infringes in the rights of others, including material that is an invasion of privacy or publicity rights or that is protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right, or derivative works with respect thereto, without first obtaining permission from the owner or right holder (when doing so, permission must be explicitly stated).
• Post or transmit any information, software or other materials that contains a virus or other harmful component.
• Post or transmit any unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of solicitation on the BuildaBridge Discussion Board.
• Intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including but not limited to any regulations having the force of law while using or accessing the BuildaBridge Discussion Board or in connection with your use of the BuildaBridge Discussion Board in any manner.

BuildaBridge reserves the right to monitor some, all or none of the BuildaBridge Discussion Board for adherence to the rules and regulations above mentioned and/or any other rules that may be published in the future. You acknowledge that by providing you with the ability to distribute your content, BuildaBridge is acting as a passive conduit and is not undertaking any obligation or liability relating to any content or activities in a topic area.

Disclaimer: By posting to the BuildaBridge Discussion Board, you agree that BuildaBridge can display, modify, transmit, distribute or delete your posting without permission from or contact to you. BuildaBridge does not edit postings and is not responsible for the content of posted material of any kind. BuildaBridge may remove postings at any time at our sole discretion.

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