In order to make your stay as pleasant and constructive as possible please take your time to read through this document. These rules can be changed without notice though normally we announce changes via announcement in all the forums.
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While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts.
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Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.
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Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.
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Advertising and spamming is not allowed. This includes using the forum email and Private message system to spam other members.
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Posts that encourage sales of goods from companies that are not our sponsors will we be edited. This community does not tolerate free advertising as it's not fair on companies that support us.
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We also do not allow posts that are sexual in nature or violate AquariumMalta.com community standards. The administrative team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards
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Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed.
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Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
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We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
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Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.
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You cannot post any affiliate or referral links, or post anything asking for a referral. Such posts will be subject to removal.
- You cannot post or send private messages with advertisments ,notice for contests or promotion of activities not related to AquariumMalta.com.
- No political or religion related posts are allowed on this site.
Forum Etiquette
- Please do not register more than one account. If you have more than one account you may be banned. If one of your accounts is banned, all will be.
- Do NOT join the forum and start critizing the site, the rules, the website owner, forum members etc. with your posts. Such posts do not belong into the forum and only disrupt the discussion and spread negativity. If you like the site, you stay. If you don't like it, you are free to leave, join another forum or create your own website/forum and do things "better." If you think you need to make suggestions, then you can write an email to the website owner. He may or may not take your suggestions into consideration. Rest assured that the website, the forum and the rules are the way they are for a reason. Violaters of this particular rule will get banned *immediately* without explanation and their posts/threads will be deleted.
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- Do not re-register if you are banned. Registering when you are banned is against the AquariumMalta.com terms of service. If you have been temporarily banned, registering another account will result in a permanent ban.
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- Due to privacy concerns, posts asking why someone was banned will be removed.
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- Please respect the decisions of the moderators and administrators.
They have a difficult role to perform and will need to make decisions from time to time that will affect you.
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- Do not post a message asking why your post was deleted. Your new post will be deleted without a response.
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- If you spot a message with objectionable content please report it to a moderator.
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- When replying to a thread, please be as informative as possible with your reply. Please do not just restate the information that has already been posted by other people.
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- The same rules that apply to the forums also apply to the chat room. When people are chatting about fish in the chat room, please do not interrupt with an off-topic conversation.
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- Do not try to bypass the automatic word censor. This includes using asterisks or other special characters in place of letters. Do not post words simply to test what is being censored.
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- Please do not post a thread about having a specific post count, status change, or quiz score. There are too many members on this site to allow such threads.
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- Do not post the same thread in multiple forums. One will be deleted, even if it has replies.
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- Please search for an answer to your question before posting a new topic.
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- Do not post any copyrighted text or images on this site.
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- Do not embed images hosted on other servers in your post without the owners permission. Due to the popularity of this site, this could potentially steal bandwidth from the owners server.
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- Please populate the fields in your profile with as much information as you feel necessary.
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