Forum Rules

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The Fly Talk forum have grown tremendously over the past years and we thank all of you for being a part of this growing community. In order to keep the forum running well and to prevent problems, please follow these simple rules for the forum here. If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to contact us.

General Rules

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

* Advertising without prior permission is not allowed. Spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum, email, visitor messages, blog comments, picture comments and private message systems to spam other members.

* We also do not allow posts or links to sites that are sexual in nature or violate Fly Talk community standards. The Fly Talk team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.

* Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed.

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

* We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.

* Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure the forum is not disrupted or abused in any way.

* You cannot post any affiliate or referral links, or post anything asking for a referral. Such posts will be subject to removal.

* You cannot post advertisements or notices for contests.

* Absolutely NO racist comments.

* We also reserve the right to ban someone who wilfully violates the forum rules.

Advertising Services and Solicitation

We do not allow people to post threads or to send private messages or emails to users here that advertise or solicit any products, services, funds or donations. Explicit advertising and solicitating in avatars, signatures and usernames is also prohibited.

Links in avatars, signatures and usernames must follow these guidelines

* Linking to a commercial product/service/website is prohibited.

* A link and promotional text for a site that is not commercial and does contain fly fishing related information is allowed (like blogs), provided the site links back to Fly Talk and does not violate Fly Talk community standards. The Fly Talk team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.

Moderation

Although the administrators of Fly Talk will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this forum, it is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages express the views of the author, and the owners of Fly Talk will not be held responsible for the content of any message.

By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws.

The owners of Fly Talk Community reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.

We reserve the right to update and modify these rules as the needs of the community dictate to ensure the smooth operation of this community.