Posting Guidelines


In order to encourage the comfortable flow of information, we need to agree on some standards for this Community. We want you to be an active and valuable part of the discussion boards, so we respectfully ask you to adhere to the following rules of conduct:

1. Be Pleasant: In this Community, we're representing ourselves with our words. Our posts should be friendly in both our language and tone.

  1. Profanity and abusive language are completely out of bounds.
  2. Agree to disagree respectfully. You can challenge others' ideas without attacking them personally.
  3. Avoid "shouting" (typing with ALL CAPS!).
  4. Do not infringe on the rights of others by using threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasion of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, divisive or otherwise objectionable activity or language.
  5. Do not conduct yourself in such a way that restricts or inhibits any other member from using or enjoying the Livingsoft Northwest Community.

2. Content: You are responsible for whatever you post on these discussion boards. Here are some protective guidelines:

  1. Avoid posting any copyrighted material. This includes full lyrics of songs, etc., unless you have permission from the owner or unless allowed under fair use.
  2. Let's keep the Community a discussion area—not a marketplace. To protect the integrity of the discussions in this Community, we cannot allow you to promote, sell, or give away products or services, even if free. This also means soliciting or fund-raising of any kind is prohibited, even for good causes.  The only exceptions to this that will be allowed are for those products and services specifically authorized by Livingsoft Northwest.
  3. Avoid advertising and spamming (sending unsolicited e-mail) to people who visit these message boards.
  4. Harvesting of e-mail addresses is prohibited.
  5. Each participant in these boards is responsible for not spreading viruses or sending objectionable content through e-mail to other participants.
  6. Posts that appear argumentative, sarcastic or divisive may be deleted without discussion.
  7. Please don’t copy the same post to another area of the Community.
  8. While it is preferred that community members provide links to personal or preferred Web sites within the appropriate areas in their MySpace profile pages, you are free to post a link to your Web site in the Community, provided that you are not offering a commercial service or for profit venture and you do not repeatedly and excessively post the same link over and over again on the forums within the Community.
  9. All posts are subject to the review of Livingsoft Northwest. We reserve the right to remove any post for any reason. Please note that moderation of forums (conducted by enlisted volunteers through Livingsoft Northwest) may include moving posts to the appropriate area if misplaced, "featuring" particularly interesting or popular posts, removing posts from view if inappropriate or if they detract from a guided discussion, or copying posts to other relevant areas.

3. Take Care: The Internet is a public place, so protect yourself by not posting personal contact information (phone numbers, addresses, etc.) You may choose whether or not your e-mail address is visible in your personal profile (a MySpace option), but displaying your address is not required.

  1. Stay away from secrets or other confidential information.
  2. Never represent yourself as someone you're not.

4. Use Caution: These discussion boards are not monitored in real time, but as we learn of a problem, we may take steps to correct it. Help us by e-mailing violations of our guidelines to our community administrators. If you have to report something, please include a link to the post, if possible, and the name of the forum in which the problem resides. This will give us the ability to take action quickly.

5. Participation: Participation in these discussion boards may be suspended for any member at any time for behavior that:

  1. Violates these posting guidelines or the Discussion Board Terms of Service.
  2. Is threatening or abusive to any individual member of the discussion boards.
  3. Is threatening or abusive to the companies whose products are discussed here.
  4. Is threatening or abusive to any employees or staff of the companies whose products are discussed here.

For questions or suggestions regarding these forums, please write to bbs@LivingsoftNW.com