Welcome
to the NAWCC Message Board. There are a few rules we've put
in place to make your experience more enjoyable and meaningful.
2.Posting
4.No
Spam
5.Appropriate
and inappropriate linking
6.Linking to and Referencing Items For Sale
9.Forum
contents are public and indexable
13.Avatars,
profile photos and image uploading
14.Signatures
17. Copyright Notice
Respect
is a given on the NAWCC message board Members will not always get along.
They will often disagree and get into heated debate. But personal attacks
will not be tolerated.
Any
user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to
contact the NAWCC message board administrator immediately by email. We
have the ability to remove objectionable messages and we will make every
effort to do so; within a reasonable time frame, if it is determine that
removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, so please realize
that we may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately.
1.
You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is
owned by you or by this BB. Although this BB does not and cannot review
all the messages posted and is also not responsible for the content of
any of these messages, we at this BB reserve the right to delete any message
for any or no reason whatsoever.
3.
Posts may not be made on behalf of a banned member.
Some
forums have rules that must be adhered to in addition to those listed here.
Specific rules are posted at forum announcement. All visitors and members
should familiarize themselves with these rules before posting in these
forums.
Registered
users who spam other members through private messaging, email or information
obtained by visiting links posted in threads will have their accounts immediately
suspended.
Members
may only promote the services of other companies if they have substantial
firsthand experience as a customer. Recommending someone's services without
having used those services yourself is not allowed. This includes promoting
services about which you've heard
from others.
The
NAWCC message board’s definition of spam applies to all referral links
posted in profiles, signatures, titles and threads.
You may not post a link that redirects the visitor in any way. Likewise,
you may not post links to sites from which you may benefit from affiliation.
You may only link to a site with an NAWCC affiliate program or if you are
the owner of the domain, and in this case, the rule barring redirects still
applies.
Appropriate
and inappropriate linking
Forum
visitors may not post links to sites containing illegal materials, including
pirated software/warez, trojans, worms or software classified as spyware,
adware or malware (final determination to be made by the moderating team).
In addition, because this site is open for use by minors, visitors may
not link to pages that contain pornographic material. Linking to gateways
for sites containing such materials may be prohibited at the discretion
of the moderating team. This includes visual materials of an "R-rated"
nature as well. Links to sites with wholely obscene or grossly offensive
language not commonly considered suitable for minors may be edited as well,
again at the discretion of the moderating team.
This
rule applies to thread posts, custom titles, signatures and profile information.
Linking
to and Referencing Items For Sale
You
may not link to, list, or reference any specific item or part thereof,
whether horological or not, that is presently being offered at auction
or otherwise advertised or posted for sale. However, you may refer to suppliers
of parts, materials or tools that are considered normal stock items, and
are generally available in quantities, for the purpose of assisting a member
with a project or task.
This
rule applies to thread posts, custom titles, signatures and profile information.
Advertising
on the NAWCC forums is not allowed
All "For Sale ads" and "requests for timepiece values" are prohibited on these Bulletin Boards. This rule also prohibits responding to posts with offers to purchase the specific item under discussion.
If
you are looking to either buy or sell horological items please
use the NAWCC e-Mart or the NAWCC Mart
Considering
the real-time nature of this bulletin board, it is impossible for us to
review messages or confirm the validity of information posted.
Advice,
information, feedback and advertised services cannot be verified for accuracy
or authenticity by NAWCC message board administrators or moderators. Therefore,
any member who makes use of another member's services or posted information
in any way assumes all risks for doing so.
Forum
contents are public and indexable
Please
remember that anything you choose to post in these forums can be viewed
by other members, guests, search engines and both harmless and malicious
bots. We strongly advise you not to post email addresses or personal contact
information within forum threads, unless you are willing to assume all
risks associated with doing so.
Individuals
are allowed one
(1)
account, regardless of the number of businesses they represent. If multiple
accounts are activated from the same location, all active accounts will
be suspended. If more than one person at the same location wishes to sign
up for an account, please notify site administrators.
Discussions
on the merits of a business, service or another visitor/member are limited
to personal experiences only. Illegitimate revenge/vendetta threads will
be handled as seen fit by moderators or administrators.
NAWCC
message board members may fill in as much or as little of their personal
profiles as they'd like. However, fields must be used appropriately. Members
may not splash links throughout their profiles (signature and Website fields
excluded), and advertising messages are limited to appropriate signature
use. Members may use these fields creatively or humorously, but your profile
is meant to define your personality, not to be used as a billboard. Members
who use their profiles inappropriately will have them edited. Members who
persist in this behavior may be warned or banned.
Avatars,
profile photos and image uploading
NAWCC
message board members are permitted to post photos in their profiles and
upload images in threads. All images must be treated with the same set
of rules that govern the posting of text in regards to respect. In addition,
images containing obscenity, violence, inappropriate sexual themes and
any other offensive material will be edited or deleted, and the offending
visitor/member may be warned or immediately banned from using the forums.
We realize there may be some grey areas in how the contents and context
of images are interpreted, and moderators will exercise their judgment
when determining the appropriateness of an image, avatar or profile photo.
Avatars
and Photo Profiles are not intended to be used for advertising. They are
only for posting pictures for members to reference each other visually.
Please limit personal promotions to text only in your signatures and custom
titles. Feel free to have fun with your profile photo if you do not wish
to post a picture of yourself, so long as you stay within the guidelines
above.
Members
and visitors are free to use their signatures as they see fit, with the
following restrictions:
1.Signatures are limited to 80 characters, including white spaces and may not be more than two lines, single spaced.
2.Signatures
may not be used to post specific promotional information. When referencing
a site you own, manage or from which you profit, you are limited to a site
name, link and general tagline. For example, "TicToc.com - Clock Repair
Specialist" would be just fine. "TicToc.com - Check out this months specials"
would not constitute an acceptable general tagline.
3.No
more than two smileys.
4.No
increasing text size, though multiple colors and bolding/italicizing are
fine.
5.No
images in signatures, except for NAWCC message board-installed smileys.
6.The
respect rule is in full effect.
This
is by no means an effort to discriminate against non-English-speaking visitors,
but in order for moderators to do their jobs effectively, the language
used within the forums must be understandable by them. In the future, if
NAWCC message board recruits moderators fluent
in other languages, we may consider allowing posting in those languages.
But for now, thread titles, posts and signatures in any other language
will be edited unless the use of that language is unavoidable for some
reason and proper explanation is given. This rule does not apply to private
messages..
The
most important rule all NAWCC message board members and forum visitors
must remember is that the judgment of the NAWCC Internet Message Board
Review Committeeis final, and supercedes
the word of any rule stated on this page. Committee members will make all
attempts to be fair and will entertain all reasonable appeals regarding
decisions they make. Ultimately, their decisions will stand, however. This
effectively closes any loophole or shortsightedness within the forum rules.
Please
note: forum rules may be modified and additional rules may be made at anytime
as deemed appropriate by site administrators. New and modified rules are
enforcable retroactively at the time of their posting. ©2002-2007 NAWCC Message Board - All Rights Reserved
Worldwide
1.It
is the policy of NAWCC Inc. and the NAWCC Message Board to respect the
copyright of third parties and to claim and defend its own copyrights to
the full extent of the law. 2.All
our Trade Marks, Titles, Logos, Names and Descriptions of Categories and
Forums including but not limited to "NAWCC Message Board" are the property
of NAWCC Inc. and World-Wide Ownership Rights are hereby asserted and protected. 3.All
Intellectual Property and Images appearing on the NAWCC Message Board in
any form or format are Ownership and Copyright Protected World-Wide.The
copyright for the content is owned by NAWCC Inc. and/or individual authors
and contributors.
4.Therefore
no thread or part of a thread may be copied and placed on any other website
without specific written permission of the administrator of the NAWCC message
board. The author of course
retains the right to the content and form of his/her individual post (but
not to the thread as a whole) and may reuse his post any way he/she desires.If
you wish to share the information contained on the NAWCC message board
with someone, you should send them a link to the site or to a specific
thread, rather than copy a post or a thread.
5.By
participating in the Messages Boards of NAWCC you are supporting NAWCC’s
mission of preserving and disseminating horological knowledge.By
contributing to these message boards you are automatically giving NAWCC
the right to publish and distribute the threads which contain your
postings for educational purposes.Legally
speaking, by participating in the Message Board, you
are conferring to NAWCC Inc. anon-exclusive,
royalty-free, perpetual irrevocable, worldwide license and right to use,
reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, display Message Board
threads in whole or in part, including your postings and/or to incorporate
them in other works now known or later developed.Such
future use may include, but is not limited to Bulletin articles, books,
CDs, websites etc, which NAWCC may create in the future. You cannot withdraw
or retract the posting or seek payments from us in relation to this license
at any time in the future.
6.NAWCC
agrees that it will not use or copy or use individual postings (or
parts of postings) outside of the context of the thread to which they were
contributed, without first .getting specific authorization from the author
of such a post.
7.NAWCC
further agrees that it will not sell, transfer or license the right
to copy and use the NAWCC MB threads to outside third parties.
8.If an author
desires to deny the automatic transfer of rights to NAWCC as described
in paragraph 5 above he/she has the option to opt-out of the automatic
license provision for a specific, single posting.The
only way to opt-out of the automatic license acceptable to NAWCC isif
a specific post contains, as its first paragraph, the sentence: “Copyright
solely with XYZ [name {not MB handle}of the author] – Reuse prohibited”.
(The use of this sentence in the automatic signature block is not permitted,
and shall not be a valid opt-out).To
invoke the opt-out of the automatic license as per paragraph 5 above for
an image posted to the NAWCC MB site, the same sentence must be imbedded
into the image.
9.Posting copyrighted
Material & Links to other Sites
Any material protected by copyright (unless you own the copyright)
may not be posted on the message board without the expressed permission
of the copyright owner. This includes reproducing the full text of news
stories and articles. It is acceptable to paraphrase other works; citing
the original source whenever possible. It is permissible to mention or
link to other Web sites that are of interest to users of the NAWCC MB,
so long as they do not violate message board rules and do not violate the
linked web site's guidelines. The
“no commercial or business use” guideline of the NAWCC message board in
regard to posting links means that only posting links with an "informational/educational/discussion
material" intent are permissible, while links posted with a “commercial/business”
intent are prohibited and are subject to being removed.The
MB moderator are charged with enforcing this rule, like all other MB rules,
using their judgment.
Special
Notes
These rules were developed using IWDN
Forum Rules as a format.