• 25Aug 06

  TVcom_Moderator Account

  This is just a reminder this account is only used by TV.com Forum Moderators for purpose of moderating the forums. If you have a forum moderation question that needs answering, your best bet is to post a topic in the "About the Forums - Ask the Mods" board or PM a moderator directly.When sending a PM to the moderators please just choose one as we don't need users receivng PM's from different mods after the initial question has already been answered.
  
  Additionally, TV.com staff do not read or answer any responses sent to this account and all PM's regarding the site will be deleted from our inbox.
  
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  • Posted Aug 25, 2006 6:40 pm PT
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• 4Feb 06

  TV.com Forum Community Terms of Service

  TV.com Community Terms of Service
  
  TV.com Forum Moderators
  
  AngelandSpike
  Danbambridge
  Edward_Nigma
  GeorgeFergus
  Gislef
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  VillaFan
  
  TV.com Forum Terms
  
  Acceptance of Terms
  Account Responsibility
  Content Notice
  Privacy and Release of Information
  Registration Requirements
  Terms Violations
  
  Member Conduct
  
  Account Sharing
  Bugs and Exploits
  Censor Bypassing
  Disruptive Posting
  False Moderation Reports
  Flaming (Insulting Other Users)
  Flooding, Invading, and Board Wars
  Harassment/Stalking/Privacy
  Illegal Activities
  Impersonation
  Offensive Posting
  Off-Topic Posting
  Other
  Plot Spoilers
  Reviews
  Signatures/Profile Banners/Avatars (Forum Icons)/Personal Images
  Spam/Advertising
  Trolling (Inciting Flames)
  Usernames, Profiles, and Forms
  
  TV.com Forum Terms
  
  Acceptance of Terms
  
  TV.com provides message board services to you, the visitor, based on its Terms of Service outlined here. When using the forums provided by TV.com, you are subject to these posted terms. Usage of the services on this site means acceptance of these terms. The TOS may be changed without direct notice to individual visitors, so it is recommended that you check this page frequently for updates.
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  Account Responsibility
  
  Users are solely responsible for protecting their accounts from access by others. "Group" and/or shared accounts are not allowed. You are strongly encouraged to select a hard-to-guess password and not reuse that password on any other sites where it may be read by the owners or administrators of those sites.
  
  While it is acceptable for users to maintain multiple accounts on TV.com, TV.com can and does track multiple shared accounts from a single or multiple computers as one account in terms of TOS violations. If the TOS is violated severely enough to warrant banning one account, all known accounts which use the same computer may also be banned for the actions of the violating account at the administrators' discretion.
  
  For this reason, it is recommended that board users do not share computers used to access the site with others.
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  Content Notice
  
  By viewing the site content, you agree that all content on the TV.com message boards is the responsibility of the person from which the content originated. You agree that neither TV.com nor its sponsors or affiliates are responsible for all content that you personally post or upload. TV.com does not directly control any content posted on the boards and does not guarantee the truthfulness or quality of any content. You agree that while using the TV.com message boards, you may be exposed to content that is offensive or objectionable and that you will in no way hold TV.com nor its sponsors or affiliates liable in any way for any harm or loss that may come to you or others from viewing this content. TV.com is not responsible for screening content before it is posted; although, an offensive language filter is installed on the system that will reject certain posts that may contain certain words considered offensive or used most often in an offensive way.
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  Privacy and Release Information
  
  Under normal circumstances, TV.com will never release your provided information to any third-party without a court order requiring us to do so. However, in cases of certain severe or repeated TOS violations or illegal activities, we reserve the right to send any known information about you and your accounts to your ISP (including libraries, schools, and places of employment), e-mail service provider, your ISP account owner (if someone else is paying for it), and any parties whose copyright has clearly been infringed by your actions on the boards.
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  Registration Requirements
  
  To view messages on the TV.com message boards without user restrictions, no registration is required or necessary. To post messages on the boards and use other advanced services, you must register with TV.com using a valid e-mail address. After registration, an activation key in the form of a URL will be sent to the address you provided. You must visit this URL using the web browser of your choice to activate the account. No posting privileges are granted until the account is activated. TV.com does not require you to use your real name or other identification that can be easily traced to you and the e-mail address you provide will be kept private. To register on TV.com, registrants must be 13 years or older. TV.com does not knowingly collect any information from any users under 13 years of age. If it is found that an underage user has fraudulently registered, the account will be terminated immediately.
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  Terms Violations
  
  Topics and message posts that violate the TOS will be deleted from the boards, and additional penalties may be applied at the moderator's discretion. Reposting deleted violations (yours or those of others) is also considered a violation.
  
  Messages and topics may be removed for any reason at the sole discretion of TV.com and its appointed moderators. User accounts may be warned, suspended, or revoked for any reason at the sole discretion of TV.com and its appointed moderators. All determinations of what is "acceptable" and "unacceptable" content will be determined solely by TV.com and its appointed moderators. You agree the decision of the moderators and administrators is final, and you may not contest their rulings legally.
  
  Intentional, repeated, or severe violations are cause for the banning of your account, all use of the boards from your IP address or your entire ISP, and TV.com contacting your ISP or other relevant parties about your activities.
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  Member Conduct
  
  Account Sharing
  
  Using an account that is not your own or giving another user access to your account is prohibited and is grounds for immediate loss of all accounts.
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  Bugs and Exploits
  
  Using exploits or tricks in the TV.com code to gain privileges, access, or abilities not clearly intended by the board design are prohibited. Making exploits public or using them for personal benefit is grounds for immediate loss of all known accounts.
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  Censor Bypassing
  
  The TV.com message boards are programmed with a list of words that are considered vulgar under any context and these words are not allowed to be posted. Trying to bypass the censor by misspelling, inserting spaces or symbols, switching letters, using look-alike symbols, using abbreviations, dropping letters, or any other method is not allowed. The only acceptable method of posting one of these words is to obscure it making it impossible to determine what the word is without context. Also, certain words are restricted from being used in topic titles and user information pages. Bypassing the censor to post those words where they are restricted is also disallowed. For example, if "gris" is a banned word:
  
  Not allowed: g-r-i-s, gr*s, g***, 9|-1$, girs, gryeeeas, grizznizz, **** (rhymes with "bris")
  Allowed: ****, ****ed, ****ing, g'ed, g-word
  Users are granted greater (but still not unconditional) freedom of speech on their personal blogs and in their sig lines.
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  Disruptive Posting
  
  Posts that disrupt the message boards for other users, intentional or not, are prohibited. This includes, but is not limited, to:
  
  Message posts or topic titles that force browsers to scroll horizontally or excessively vertically
  Large blank or content-free posts
  Posts that consist only of quotes, or quotes plus an unsubstantial reply ("Okay" - "Yeah!" - "LOL" - smile), or just an unsubstantial reply.
  Excessive quoting (i.e., quoting a ten-paragraph post to respond to one sentence)
  "Bumping" older topics, directly or indirectly (posting in them well after the last post and/or primarily to keep them near the top of a forum, or creating a purportedly new thread that primarily rehashes the original topic)
  Posting multiple identical or near-identical messages or topics, including "fad" topics
  Intentionally hard-to-read topic titles and thread content (i.e. ALL CAPS, AlTeRnAtE cApS, no spaces, no or excessive punctuation, 1337 speak, et cetera)
  Posting multiple hard-to-read or absurd messages in a single or multiple topics
  Posting large ASCII art (except in social topics specifically calling for it)
  Post counting (i.e. "First", "100th Post")
  Posting a browser hijack link (i.e. Rick Roll)
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  False Moderation Reports
  
  Report Abuse is only to be used for genuine breaches of these Terms of Service and is not to be used as a means of settling petty disputes and squabbles between board users. Repeated reporting of posts which do not violate the TOS may result in your account being suspended or banned.
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  Flaming (Insulting Other Users)
  
  Posts of a hostile or insulting nature toward other board members and a show's cast or crew, individually or as a group, directly or indirectly, beyond the bounds of reasonable and informed criticism and debate, are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:
  
  Name-calling ("You're an idiot", "You moron")
  Direct insults ("Screw you")
  Offensive orders ("Go kill yourself")
  Suggestions ("Are you stupid or something?") or insults towards family ("Your mom...")
  Physical threats, even as jokes ("I'm going to hunt you down and set you on fire!")
  Derogatory references to another poster's experience or ability to follow the rules, or lack thereof.
  Excessive upper-case posting, which is the Internet equivalent of hostile screaming.
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  Flooding, Invading, and Board Wars
  
  Users (and all associated accounts) will be banned immediately for:
  
  Flooding a board with multiple disruptive topics or posts
  Posting a single identical post on multiple forums, including but not limited to petitions
  Invading another board (flooding a board as a group with multiple topics or posts)
  Announcing or inciting a "war" or any conflict with the regular members of another board.
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  Harassment/Stalking/Privacy
  
  Continual harassing behavior directed towards a certain individual or group with the intent of creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment on the boards with the Personal Messaging (PM) system, with or without use of explicit or implicit threats is strictly prohibited. Posting private information without permission is also prohibited.
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  Illegal Activities
  
  Posts that violate or incite others to violate the law are not allowed. This includes (but is not limited to) discussing, asking for or providing, in any way, shape, or form:
  
  Illegal copies of copyrighted software and related applications (ROMs, Warez)
  Methods of avoiding copyright protection (Cracks, No-CD Patches, CD Keys)
  Illegal copies in part or in whole of copyrighted music (MP3s), movies, videos, TV shows, images, or any other media
  Reprints of material from other web sites (pay or free)
  
  Simply mentioning the word "download" is not a violation of TOS policy. Specific illegal download sites or methods must be mentioned for a violation to occur.
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  Impersonation
  
  Impersonating other board members, actors, writers, et cetera is grounds for immediate ban of all accounts.
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  Offensive Posting
  
  Posts of a patently offensive nature are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:
  
  Using vulgar, profane, or sexually explicit language
  Using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, handicap, nationality, or gender as a means of insult
  Using sexual preference terms as insult in any way
  Using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language
  Posting or requesting links to or material from pornographic, obscene, or hate-speech web sites
  Posting links to web sites with potentially offensive content without a clear warning
  Descriptions or details about any sexual act or sexual organs
  Sexually suggestive or nearly nude images that are judged inappropriate by Moderators or Administrators - As a general guideline, this refers to images that would be censored on network television, in a daily newspaper, or in an office
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  Off-Topic Posting
  
  The main purpose of the TV.com message boards is to provide a place to discuss television programs. Threads are expected to be on topic - whether they be in the forum for a current or canceled series or in one of the general or special interest forums. Threads should encourage discussion rather than one word replies. Topics that have nothing to do with the board's category, "secret base" type threads, discussions of other users, and other "social" topics are typically disallowed, but less formal discussion threads may be created at an editor's discretion.
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  Other
  
  These are public boards, so act like you would if you were in a public place. TV.com reserves the right to choose the action taken on objectionable content based on its knowledge of users and company policy. These issues are left to the individual moderators, but may include any material that is knowingly false or defamatory, misleading, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, racist, sexist, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy or that otherwise violates any law or encourages conduct constituting a criminal offense.
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  Plot Spoilers
  
  Spoilers regarding any form of media are disallowed within thread titles. Spoilers should not be included within forum posts unless posted within BB Code spoiler tags or preceded by a clear SPOILER warning.
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  Reviews
  
  To eliminate purely speculative reviews and to avoid reviews of pre-air episodes that later change before airing officially, reviews of televised episodes or shows that have not had an official broadcast premiere WILL BE DELETED. Posting these "speculation" reviews and any other TOS violations associated with the reviews section could wind up costing you points. If you want to write a review, please watch the episode first.
  
  Reviews should be written in English. Reviews written in other languages are not permitted and are subject to removal.
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  Signatures/Profile Banners/Avatars/Personal Images
  
  Signatures may not exceed 550 pixels wide.
  Signatures may not exceed a combined height of 200 pixels and/or 14 lines (including blank lines)
  Signatures of an offensive nature are not allowed
  
  If your signature causes a scrollbar (either horizontally, vertically, or both), then it's too large.
  
  Signatures can and will be deleted without notice to the user.
  
  Banners: 760 x 140 - 48 Kilobytes (49152 Bytes)
  Avatars (Forum Icons): 80 x 80 - 19 Kilobytes (19456 Bytes)
  Personal Images: 84 x 84 - 19 Kilobytes (19456 Bytes)
  
  + Please note these size limitations will only apply if you are uploading your own image to TV.com servers. These limits do not apply if you provide a URL to an image which is hosted by another site.
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  Spam/Advertising
  
  Posts that advertise or promote a service, product, site, or personal blog (here or otherwise) are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:
  
  Unsolicited commercial or personal web site advertisements
  For-Sale/For-Trade/For-Auction/Wanted notices
  DVDs, VHS tapes, downloads, screen captures, and any other copyrighted material, in part or in whole, owned by someone else
  "Make Money Fast" scams, chain letters, and pyramid schemes
  Advertising for another message board
  Solicitations and drawings for charity or profit events
  Users can include a web site address in a signature, request comments on their personal site in a social setting, or post (only once) an interesting or relevant link to another site.
  A blog created to let the user and his friends raise their post count without contributing any substantial content. Typically, spam blogs include posts containing, but not limited to the following: emoticons (face icons), a single word, and numbers
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  Trolling (Inciting Flames)
  
  Posts intending mainly to annoy or offend other posters by going against the clear nature of a board or topic are not allowed. Moderators have the final say in what was "intended" judging by a number of factors, including the response to the post. This includes, but is not limited to:
  
  Provoking other users to respond with flames
  Provoking fans of a particular show or genre, especially on boards dedicated to that show or genre (i.e., "This show suxx!!!")
  Making misleading topic titles
  Asking useless or unrelated questions
  Posting false information as fact
  Threatening to report other users
  Posting hostile and insulting comments about other users in blogs and forums
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  Usernames, Profiles, and Forms
  
  Violation of any rules with a username, user profile section (signature, quote, e-mail), or by feedback forms (i.e. Mark for Moderation function) is considered a severe violation.
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  • Posted Feb 4, 2006 8:21 am PT
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