Guidelines

General Forum and Commenting Rules:

• We take the “Be Polite” rule very seriously. The Dojo is a place of learning and respect for our fellow teachers and students. We do not tolerate any rudeness. Any member who is intentionally unpleasant or disruptive may be banned.
• If you SPAM our members in any manner, your account will be disabled. Do not contact anyone to suggest your product or service who is not explicitly expecting you to contact them from an advertising forum post.
• Your account is yours alone. You are responsible for any activity created with it. You may not share your account login with anyone. If you choose to ignore this important restriction your account, and any accounts associated with it, will be disabled.
• All publicly displayed messages are limited to the English language. This includes posts, titles, signatures, and any attachments or other forms of public display.
• Signature Spam (a post that was made in hopes of showing a signature, as determined by moderators) is forbidden in all forum categories.
• You may not post commission, referral or affiliate links anywhere on the forum.
• Cross-Posting is not allowed here. Cross-posting refers to posting new duplicate threads or posts, or the linking to threads or posts already started by the member with the intention of gaining exposure.
• You may not post on behalf of any banned member in any public manner. This includes all forums, private messages, signatures, and e-mail features.
• You may not post words or URLs that are censored by adding spaces, dots, or substituting characters; or by any other means in an attempt to defeat any censors put in place by the forum administrator. Please contact us if you feel a word or URL is unjustly censored.
• You may not link, in any manner, to sites or images containing pornography, sexually explicit, gross violence, or are determined by moderators to be detrimental to the community.
• You may not use discussions to recommend, praise, or belittle other products or services, or any company; without first hand experience of those products or services. This includes companies recommending other companies. Any post not meeting a moderator’s criteria will be removed without notice.
• Any posts that encourage illegal intent will be removed and the account disabled.
• Public posts debating these rules and/or moderators’ enforcement of such, will be removed without comment. We encourage feedback however and invite you to submit any questions or concerns.

Forum Specific Rules:

• These rules apply to the Main Forum and Other Forums Categories.
• You may not publish or discuss any information regarding your product or services, or future (possible) products or services, or any product or services you are, or have been, associated with. This includes, but not limited to suggesting your own services, or services of partners, clients, employers or friends.
• You may not post any message that is commercial by nature.
• You may not post any message that directs others to any pages at your own commercial domain, including informational pages. A commercial domain is defined as a site that receives any type of income or links to any income producing properties.
• You may not solicit users for any project or purpose external to the forum; public, private, or commercial. Most importantly our member base is not a resource to be “mined” by individuals, groups, or businesses, for profit or not for profit.
• You may only discuss details about your company and/or product offerings when the thread starter or poster has made direct reference to your company and stated something untrue or misleading, or something which clearly needs clarifying. The response must be in direct reference to the point discussed only and contain no added promotional information and/or fluff. It is advisable when in the above scenario to contact us first.

Custom User Titles, Locations, Profiles, and Signatures:

URLs or other forms of advertising (phone numbers, plans, contact details, etc.) are not allowed in custom user titles or names. Also, you may not use custom titles to impersonate, or attempt to impersonate, any entity you are not associated with.

Your location field cannot include URLs or other forms of advertising.

Profile pictures cannot include sexually explicit or graphically intense images.

Profile Summary (and all other modules) cannot include or link to illegal encouragement, harassment, sexually explicit, or other non-family-friendly content.

Signatures:

• Are a benefit extended to WHT members who have made 10 helpful posts and completed 7 days of registration.
• Must be setup in your profile, and not manually added to your messages or comments.
• May not contain any pricing, plan, sales, etc. details. “Free” is considered a price in the context of this rule.
• May not use the word “Free” to describe any cost.
• May contain a maximum of two smilies. Or one animated smiley.
• May include two clickable links.
• May include two colors, plus black.
• Maximum font size cannot be larger than normal.
• Must be kept to a maximum of four lines.
• May not contain links to other threads or posts.
• Please keep special characters to a minimum.
• Your signature is your signature. It is not for sale or rent.
• Any signature that is offensive or insulting is prohibited.
• We reserve the right to ask you to change and/or remove your signature at any time, for any reason.

Any posts not meeting these guidelines may be removed with our without notice.

We do not remove posts or comments on request.

In light of our policy of encouraging candid, open exchanges of views and the rapid distribution of information originating from many sources, the accuracy of information cannot be guaranteed.

Opinions, advice and all other information expressed by participants in discussions are those of the author. You rely on such information at your own risk. You are urged to seek professional advice for specific, individual situations and not rely solely on advice or opinions given in the discussions.

Privacy Policy: We will not release any member information unless under court order to do so.

We reserve the right to modify and amend these terms at any time without notice. It is your responsibility to remain informed of current policies.

We do not monitor private messages. But we will investigate all allegations of PM abuse.

We further, reserve our right to disable any account at any time for any reason and without notice.

If there are any rules or policies you do not understand, please contact us.

Finally; any abuse towards staff and/or management or other community members in any form, may result in immediate suspension of your account.