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CBF Rules - Please Read & Follow
« on: September 12, 2011, 11:01:43 AM »
Forum Behaviour Guidelines

In order to use these forums, users are required to provide a username, password and e-mail address. Neither the Administrators of these forums, or the Moderators participating, are responsible for the privacy practices of any user. Remember that all information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to share any of your personal information. Any user who finds material posted by another user objectionable is encouraged to contact us via e-mail. We are authorized by you to remove or modify any data submitted by you to these forums for any reason we feel constitutes a violation of our policies, whether stated, implied or not.

This site may contain links to other web sites and files. We have no control over the content and can not ensure it will not be offensive or objectionable. We will, however, remove links to material that we feel is inappropriate as we become aware of them.

Cookies must be turned on in your browser to participate as a user in these forums. Cookies are used here to hold your username and password and viewing options, allowing you to login.

It is expected that all members show respect to others.

Aggressive, racist, insulting and generally disrespectful posts will be removed, and the member warned about his future conduct. A second similar occurrence will result in full lock out.

Members who post antagonistic or sensationalist posts purely for the sake of promoting bad feeling or reaction will suffer a similar fate.

General Rules

Adult Jokes - Content

The 'Adult Jokes' section is an 'anything goes' section.

If you are easily shocked, don't ask Scunner for the password!

Adult Jokes - Please Use it

The 'Adult Jokes' forum is provided. Members of all ages read CBF and adult material should be posted in it.

Adult material posted elsewhere is very irresponsible and will of course be deleted.

Bad language

Swearing, abusive language and posts of an unsavoury nature, either directly or implied, will be removed. This INCLUDES starred out/adjusted versions of very bad words!

Members responsible will be warned in the first case, and removed on the second.

Business Promotion - On Forum


Do not use the CBF to promote your business. All posts will be deleted. Ask Admin if it might be possible and you may be pleasantly surprised. If you post then ask, you won't be pleasantly surprised.

Business Promotion - Via Private Message

Do not use the private message facility to send unsolicited emails about your business or service.

Members doing so will be immediately locked out.

Business Promotion As Exclusive Contribution

Easy one this - if you don't contribute to CBF other than to promote a business, your posts will be removed.

Members who help, contribute and become part of our community may well get away with the occassional plug, but no promises!

Content Disclaimer

The views expressed in this website do not necessarily represent the views of www.calis-beach.co.uk, the CBF forum, it's owners, administrators or moderators.

We cannot, therefore, accept legal responsibility for the contributed contents of this website.

Declaration Of Vested Interest

Members are encouraged to share views and advice.

Where the topic being discussed is directly (or indirectly) concerning your business, trade or financial interest, it is expected that you will reveal so.

External Links

This site may contain links to other web sites and files. We have no control over the content and can not ensure it will not be offensive or objectionable.

We will, however, remove links to material that we feel is inappropriate as we become aware of them. Please use the "report post" facility to make us aware.

Flood Responses to Member Introductions

Please DO NOT welcome large numbers of new members one after the other.

This digs up old posts and adds next to nothing to them.

Please welcome new members, but when they arrive - not two weeks later because you want to get your post count up.

Holiday Dates Section

Please ONLY post your dates as the subject line.

No "We are coming", "Anyone else out in July" or "I want to come in May if I can get a good flight deal".

It should read something like this format:

17th - 24th August.

Not hard is it  ;)

Feel free to talk yourself to death in the body of the post, flight times, airport etc., go for your life but keep the title as described.

Don't reply to other members dates, it is a simple list of dates - replies will ALL be deleted.

Local Tradesmen Section

Any posts in this section that are from people who have not even taken the time to introduce themselves in the "Member Introductions" section WILL be deleted

If you can take time to write an advert, you can take time to respect the forum too.

Multiple Postings

You don't need to need to repeat a post more than once. Whatever you have to say, it will be found. If you really feel the need to post the same topic many times, all but the first will be deleted and you will be served a friendly warning. If we get repeat offenders their multiple posts will ALL be deleted, including the original.

New Members - Introduce Yourself!

It is considered good manners for new members to introduce themselves prior to posting in other forums. You don't need to give your life history, just a Hi is sufficient, if that is all you want to say. If you want to be a read-only member you don't need to introduce yourself if you prefer not to. If you intend posting controversial posts that is fine, but you should introduce yourself first.

See "Member Introductions" to make an intro post.

No Real Estate in Local Tradesmen Forum

Property developers and Real Estate agents are NOT local tradesmen and all posts that recommend them will be deleted.

Personal attacks By Anonymous Users

Abusive or gossipmongering personal attacks by members who have signed up under assumed names, with no history and a hotmail address for example, will be removed EVERY TIME.

In essence, if you hide your identity, and your post content is aggressive or targeted at a CBF member, it will be deleted. Even if it may be true! (which is almost always not the case).

If you have scandal, have the balls to put your own name to it.

Posting Email Addresses

Email addresses, even your own, are a bad idea in posts on public forums like CBF. Email addresses are automatically harvested by dodgy companys and sold to other dodgy companys so they can send you all sorts of rubbish. All that said, we can't be bothered removing them anymore - if you want to post your email address it's your choice. Enjoy the 5000 spam emails that will come every day!

Members can contact each other by email via the member profile link.

All email addresses will be deleted, one exception being the "Local Tradesmen" forum, and then only with the permission of the local tradesman.

Posting Under Aliases

Members who are found to post under 'alter ego' user names will receive a warning, if they do it a second time they will be locked out.

All Aliases are locked immediately, no warning.

Private Conversations

Private conversations should use the email facility and not the discussion forums.

Private conversations will be deleted.

Private Emails Are Private

It is not permitted to post private emails, in whole or part, on CBF without the permission of the author.

Search Before You Ask!!!

Please use the search facility (in the menu bar and another top right) BEFORE asking your question.

99% of questions have been asked before!

Self Advertising

Advertising is permitted in most forms in the "Buy & Sell" forum.

Advertising your own business while appearing to be a happy customer will result in immediate locking of the member. Followed by exposure to 20,000 people a day that you have no happy customers at all and have to praise yourself.

Do NOT link to real estate websites if you are advertising your property for sale. This will be deleted.

Staying on Topic


Please try to keep to the topic of the original post in a thread.

At least till the original question has been answered  ;)

Text Speak/Style


'Text speak' style writing is for kids, and is somewhere between difficult and impossible for more 'mature' to follow understand. This style is only permitted in the Kids forums.

All posts outside Kids forums that use text speak will:

a) Be deleted (in instances of replies) or

b) Moved to the kids forum (in instances of new topics).

Ok m8

Typing in CAPITALS

Typing in capitals is considered to be bad etiquette on the internet, and is generally viewed as SHOUTING.

PLEASE DON'T!

This also includes topic titles.

Use of Buy & Sell Forum

The buy & sell forum is for the use of regular contributors to buy and sell things. You need to have contributed to the forum and if you have, (i.e. more than 10 posts) you are most welcome to buy & sell to your hearts are content.

IF YOU POST AN ADVERT WITHOUT HAVING INTRODUCED YOURSELF IN THE "MEMBER INTRODUCTION" SECTION FIRST, YOUR ADVERT WILL DEFINITELY BE DELETED

Members with 10+ posts are welcome to post here. Anyone with fewer will have their advert removed.

Please also note that all buy & sell adverts are entirely free, but you MUST put a price. All items without a quoted price will be deleted.

NO PROPERTY ADVERTS - CONTACT ADMIN FOR RATES

Use of Forum for Selling Property Privately

We run an FSBO section for members looking to sell property - please contact admin for details and rates.
« Last Edit: June 27, 2012, 17:57:08 PM by Scunner »




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