nyrides Discussion Forum: Rules, Policies, and Disclaimers

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Rules, Policies, and Disclaimers

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The following website guidelines are published to give you a reference for behavior on our website and, in particular, when participating in our community. We thank you for taking the time to read our website guidelines, and welcome you to nyrides.com.

Joining the Discussion Forums

You may participate in the discussion forums on any level you choose. You may simply view messages, or you may post messages as well. Posting a message with a specific question, or to seek general advice, is welcome and encouraged, as is sharing any knowledge of your own.
You are required to register a user account if you wish to contribute to the forum. Registration makes you a real part of the community, giving you access to many features, such as thread tracking, e-mail notifications, display preferences and a user profile. When you register, please choose a user name that won't be considered offensive by anyone, and one that you will be happy with as long as you participate in the forum, since you can't change your user name after you register.
Once you register, you will automatically be assigned a profile with various fields of information that can be entered. While we do not require a profile to be completed, we encourage you to enter as much information as you feel comfortable sharing. The ability for others to see such information as your first name, location and occupation gives our community a more personal feeling, and helps connect you with other users sharing similar interests, locations and occupations.

Posting Messages

As we offer forums covering a variety of topics, please locate the proper forum to post your message to, and stay as focused on the topic of the forum as possible.
Please do your best to post messages that make logical sense, that can be read and understood by other users, and are mature in nature. English is the primary forum language.
Posts should not contain any offensive language, profanity, sexual content or personal attacks of any kind. Additionally, you must follow the forum terms of service, which cover in more detail the prohibited behaviors:
- Insulting or deliberately offending other users
- Posting under multiple names or identities
- Posting or uploading material that is false or inaccurate
- Posting or uploading inappropriate or offensive material
- Posting or uploading copyrighted material without permission
- Posting or uploading advertisements without prior permission
If you violate any of our terms of use, we will notify you by private message or e-mail, and if we choose, remove your post(s) in violation of the terms of use. If we have no way of contacting you (if your e-mail address is not valid), we will remove your post(s). Repeated offenses may result in your user account being deleted, and/or your access to the forum being restricted. Once your access is restricted, it may not be reinstated for a minimum of 7 days, and all requests for reinstatement must be reviewed by our moderator staff.

Uploading Files

Registered users of the discussion forum have the ability to upload files through the post attachment feature on the preview post screen.

Photos

Please do not upload any photos containing grotesque images, sexual or sexually suggestive images, or any other image that may be viewed as offense or unacceptable. If you are unsure of the suitability of a photo or image, please contact a forum moderator prior to posting.
When uploading photos or files, you will be restricted to a 200kb file size. We also encourage an 800-pixel (11.1") width limit on photos.
Please observe our policy on copyrighted material. You may not upload an image, photo or file of any type that is copyrighted by someone other than yourself, without permission from the copyright holder. For example, you may not save a photo from another website and upload it to our website. If you want to share a photo or page from another website, please link to the image or page, rather than uploading it.

Images

You may not place an image in a post from a website other than your own or one you have permission to source an image from. In addition to the above stated guidelines, you must follow the following physical size guidelines when placing images:
- File size under 50kb
- Width under 500 pixels
- GIF or JPG format

Signatures

Your profile has an option for a signature field, which may contain text and markup, including an image link. If you place an image markup tag in your signature, the image must meet the guidelines defined above in regards to source (URL), but must also meet the following physical size guidelines:

File size under 5kb
Width under 300 pixels
GIF or JPG format

Using Markup

Markup tags are in place for you to add effects to your otherwise plain text posts. Please do not post entire messages with text effects such as bold or italicized type, or all in one color. When quoting the text from another post, please use the quote tag, or highlight the text in another color.

Editing or Deleting Posts

The discussion forum has both post editing and deletion utilities. These utilities are available only to the poster of a message. The purpose of the edit utility is to correct typographical or other errors in your post that you notice soon after posting, not for you to alter postings after replies have been posted. The same goes for the delete utility; once there are replies to your post, we ask that you do not delete it. If you wish for your post to be removed for any reason, please send a private message or e-mail to one of the forum moderators at monitor@metropool.com, and they will remove it from the forum. There is a 12-hour time limit on both the edit and delete utilities.

Notifying a Moderator of a Post

At the bottom of each post, there are four icons, each with a specific function. The image to the far right is the Notify Moderator button. This feature is in place for users to do their part in helping keep the quality of discussion forum content as high as possible. You should use the Notify Moderator feature when any of the following appear in a post:
- Insults or offensive remarks
- Posting or uploading of material that you think is false or inaccurate
- Posting or uploading of material you find inappropriate or offensive
- Posting or uploading of material you think is copyrighted
- Posting or uploading of advertisements
- Any other issue you think the moderators should look at
While the moderators of the forum try to review the forums on a regular basis, they do not always review each and every post, each and every day. Your assistance in keeping the forum a great place to be is welcomed, but in no way required.
Notifying the moderators of a post does not necessarily mean action will be taken on the post, but it does mean it will be reviewed as soon as possible. Also, notifying moderators of a post doesn't mean that person will be banned or disciplined. We don't expect many posts to require attention, but we have the feature in place for the rare times a post does need to be reviewed.

Sending Private Messages

Registered users have the ability to send private messages to other users within the forum. You should adhere to the same basic guidelines for sending private messages as you do for posting.

E-Mail Notifications

Registered users are given the option to set several e-mail notification preferences, for both daily digests of posts, and individual replies to messages you post. Regardless of the notification, please do not reply directly to these messages. To reply to the messages, you must be at this website and logged in to the discussion forum. By replying to the e-mail notification, our e-mail system gets cluttered with messages, and they are deleted, so your reply is lost.