General Rules for the New Zealand RFID Pathfinder Forum

Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc.

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

Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". That is, users should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or coloured text, etc. Similarly users should not SHOUT (posting in all UPPERCASE text) or use excessive punctuation (e.g. !! and ??) in topic titles or postings. Users consistently abusing this will be warned and potentially be removed from participation in the forum.

Spam is not tolerated under any circumstance. Users posting spam will be warned, suspended and banned and their postings removed.

While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting postings, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory postings. Our decision is final in these matters.

Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense postings, or similiar.

Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your posting count is not permitted.

Advertising, spamming and trolling is not permitted. This includes using the forum email to spam other members.

We also do not allow postings that are sexual in nature or violate community standards. The New Zealand RFID Pathfinder team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.

Discussions of illegal activities are not permitted.

Each member is permitted one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not permitted.

New Zealand RFID Pathfinder reserves the right to remove offensive postings and member profiles without prior notice.

If you are going to post non-English on these forums, please also post an English translation of your post.

Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently New Zealand RFID Pathfinder reserves the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.

You cannot post any affiliate or referral links or links that lead to click-through ads page(s), or post anything asking for a referral. Such postings and member profiles will be subject to removal.

This Forum is not a marketplace and "For Sale", "Wanted", "Trade" ads of any sorts are not permitted.

You cannot post advertisements or notices for contests anywhere on this forum including your profile and signature.

No other related forums are permitted to advertise in anyone's profile or in signatures.

New Zealand RFID Pathfinder also reserves the right to ban anyone who wilfully violates the forum rules. Any threads/postings of these types will be deleted.

ADVERTISING SERVICES:

You should never give out your New Zealand RFID Pathfinder member logon details or password to anyone, and you should not disclose server logins and/or passwords to anyone except through the New Zealand RFID Pathfinder web administrator. We can not take responsibility if you disclose this information to anyone else. Linking to a commercial product/service is prohibited. New Zealand RFID Pathfinder reserves the right to request removal of links from your profile and signature that we may consider inappropriate.

LINKING GUIDELINES:

A link and promotional text for a site that is not commercial, does not contain product(s) and/or service(s), is not a forum or a message board and is not linking to other commercial websites is permitted, provided the site is not sexual or abusive in nature or does not violate generally accepted community standards. The New Zealand RFID Pathfinder team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards. Examples include sites about drugs and/or sex.

Duplicate links to the same URL are not permitted. That includes different URLs with the same root domain (first and second level domain). Links that lead to or promote any of the following are prohibited:

• Affiliate pages with ads (example: Google Ads)
• Affiliate programs
• Brutal violence
• Coarse language
• Cursing
• Disturbing images
• Drug, alcohol and/or tobacco use
• Ethno-cultural slurs
• Gory scenes (visual depictions of bloodletting or tissue damage, as in a combat, horror, or surgical context)
• Mature themes
• Medicine, prescription or non-prescription drug sales
• Nudity
• Offensive language
• Profanity
• Racial slurs
• Scatological slang and images
• Sexual content
• Sexual expletives
• Sexual violence
• Sexually explicit material
• Spam (unsolicited advertising)
• Substance abuse
• Suggestive language
• Suggestive scenes
• Violence
• Vulgar expressions

All of the above applies to all linking methods including your website or homepage link in your profile and in your signature

USERNAMES

Usernames that promote any of the following are prohibited:

• Brutal violence
• Coarse language
• Cursing
• Domain names and websites
• Drug, alcohol and/or tobacco use
• Ethno-cultural slurs
• Mature themes
• Nudity
• Offensive language
• Profanity
• Racial slurs
• Scatological slang
• Sexual content
• Sexual expletives
• Sexual violence
• Sexually explicit material
• Substance abuse
• Suggestive language
• Violence
• Vulgar expressions

Usernames that may be confused with official staff usernames are not permitted.

AVATARS

Animated avatars are not permitted.

Avatars that promote any of the following are prohibited:

• Brutal violence
• Coarse language
• Cursing
• Disturbing images
• Drug, alcohol and/or tobacco use
• Ethno-cultural slurs
• Gory scenes (visual depictions of bloodletting or tissue damage, as in a combat, horror, or surgical context)
• Mature themes
• Nudity
• Offensive language
• Profanity
• Racial slurs
• Scatological slang and images
• Sexual content
• Sexual expletives
• Sexual violence
• Sexually explicit material
• Substance abuse
• Suggestive language
• Suggestive scenes
• Violence
• Vulgar expressions

Avatars that may be confused with official staff avatars are not permitted.

Yours sincerely,
The New Zealand RFID Pathfinder National Committee New Zealand