The Journey Posting Policy

[MsJacquiiC]

1. The Journey Administrator, Jacquii Cooke, along with The Journey Moderating Team welcomes you and thanks you for being a part of this new, growing WLS Support Community. Welcome and enjoy.

2. In order to keep the forums running smoothly (with a minimal amount of unnecessarily negative drama) and to prevent problems, please follow these simple guidelines and posting rules. If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to Contact the Forum Administrator and/or Open A Support Ticket. We will be happy to assist.


General Rules

• While debating and discussion is fine (in their appropriate forums of course), we will not tolerate rudeness. Neither insulting, racist, homophobic, ageist posts, nor posts of personal attacks or purposeless hate are allowed here. We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice. Our decision is final in these matters.*
  
• Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.
  
• Advertising, 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.
  
  

  Quoted From Wikipedia: Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, spam in blogs, and Internet forum spam.

• Please wait a reasonable amount of time before bumping posts.
  
• We also do not allow posts or links to sites that are crudely sexual in nature or violate WLS JOURNEY COMMUNITY FORUMS' 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.
  
• While we are quite happy to have constructive comparative conversations about competitor's products, we will not tolerate blatant adverts or the sort of 'ooh look, yet another bulletin board' threads.
  
• We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
  
• If you are going to post non-English on these forums, please also post an English Translation of your post.
  
• 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.
  
• 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 these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.
  
• We also reserve the right to ban anyone who wilfully violates the forum rules, as access to our Community forums are a privilege and not a right.

Moderation

• Although the Administrator and Moderators of WLS JOURNEY COMMUNITY FORUMS 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 neither the owner of WLS JOURNEY COMMUNITY FORUMS, nor any un-affiliated WLS Centers will be held responsible for the content of any message posted on these forums.
  
• By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws.
  
• The Administrator & Moderating Team reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.

* Please Note The Following Disclaimer: The Journey is a WLS Support Group offered as a free online courtesy. The content found here is for informational purposes only and should not be misconstrued as representing medical advice. Consult your doctor before starting any weightloss program or exercise regiment.

* The WLS JOURNEY COMMUNITY FORUMS Administrator & Moderating Team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.

* In accordance with online interactive etiquette and transparency, The WLS JOURNEY COMMUNITY FORUMS has made available it's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service on their respective pages. It is the sole responsibility of WLS JOURNEY COMMUNITY FORUMS' users to familiarize themselves with both policies.

* 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.

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