THE RULES! YOU MUST READ THIS BEFORE POSTING OR VOTING!

[Queen]

This forum is designed for those members of the Foodie Blogroll or any else that has a valid food blog URL. This is a forum for food bloggers only.  This is a community and therefore, we must all follow certain rules when participating in this community in order to keep things going smoothly. This document is designed to clarify various responsibilities of community members. Please read it and become familiar with it, its terms are retroactive and agreed to by all members. The act of posting on this forum means that you have read and agreed to all of these rules.

1. Please post relevant information on the boards. Users should read the forum descriptions before posting.

2. Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated and will lead to banishment from the forums forever.

3. Members are asked to not act as "back seat moderators". If there is a problem on the forum, please contact “The Queen” or a Moderator. Do not handle this situation yourself.

4. Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to banishment from the kitchen! Please note that with each post, your IP address is recorded, in the event that you need to be banned from this forum or your ISP contacted. This will only happen in the event of a major violation of this agreement. IF you are banned or you  participate in a spamming scheme or post offending materials you WILL be reported to your local authorities. NO EXCEPTIONS!

5. Do not participate in flame wars. You are just as responsible for your actions as those who started it. You will be banned and I will ignore your emails to me.

In order to be approved for registration you must have a valid food blog URL. Only food bloggers are allowed to be members!

6. Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Users re-printing material without permission will receive a warning and their post will be removed. Continued copyright infringement will lead to banishment.

7. Members should respect the bandwidth of other users and sites. The use of inline () image tags pointing to data stored on third party systems for which the user has not received permission to link to may be removed.

8. Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. This includes offering hosting services (charged and free), solicitation etc. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed. If action continues you will be banned from the forum.

9. The Queen reserves the right to edit or remove any post or any user at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these points is up to the discretion of the Queen and not to the users. You will be banned. No exceptions! Your action will then be reported to local authorities!

10. The above forum rules where applicable also apply to private messaging. Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings (as above) and/or the revocation of private messaging or banishment of the user.