Using the Chatroom
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i ) Welshblackball.com provides the chat room to encourage discussion on certain pool matters – and accepts no responsibility for views, defamatory or otherwise, expressed within those forums by individual (or group) forum users.

ii) Welshblackball.com accepts no responsibility for views posted in the chat room by individual (or group) chat room users. Individual (or group) chat room users are solely legally responsible for any views, defamatory or otherwise, which they post in the chat room.

iii) Welshblackball.com reserves the right to surrender individual (or group) chat room user details to the appropriate authorities should legal proceedings take place.

Use of the chat room indicates that the above rules have been read and agreed between welshblackball.com (the site) and any individual (or group) chat room user.

Use of the chat room indicates that all individual (or group) chat room users accept the above rules as a legally binding contract in case of subsequent litigation.


Using the forums and posting comments in articles, the guestbook, on the polls and other areas of the site.
Welshblackball.com forums user agreement

All users of the Welshblackball.com forums must abide by the following rules.

i) Welshblackball.com provides the forums to encourage discussion on certain pool matters – and accepts no responsibility for views, defamatory or otherwise, expressed within those forums by individual (or group) forum users.

ii) Welshblackball.com accepts no responsibility for views posted in these forums by individual (or group) forum users. Individual (or group) forum users are solely legally responsible for any views, defamatory or otherwise, which they post in the forums.

iii) Welshblackball.com reserves the right to surrender individual (or group) forum user details to the appropriate authorities should legal proceedings take place.

Use of the forums indicates that the above rules have been read and agreed between Welshblackball.com (the site) and any individual (or group) forum user.

Use of the forums indicates that all individual (or group) forum users accept the above rules as a legally binding contract in case of subsequent litigation.

iv) Welshblackball.com does not allow the posting of links from outside the Welshblackball.com 'family' in the forums.

We at Welshblackball.com don't tolorate spamming of the forums. Anyone found doing so, will be banned.


Advertising in the forums
Advertising of any kind is not allowed without permission.

We have many many thousands of pages of content. Each must have its proper place. An event that has not yet taken place should be placed in the diary, where another user may rightly expect to find it.

Consider, You hear about an event too late because it was advertised in the forums and quicky dropped off when people lost interest in discussing "whose going" etc. The forums are not the best place to place an event for that reason alone.

If you have an event you wish to promote, do the following:

1. Submit it to the event diary, it will be posted after review by us.
2. Submit an article to the news editor, he will give home page coverage.
3. Discuss the event in the forums as you, or other users, see fit - using hyper links to point at the article and diary entry.
4. Report the event to us, gives value to the attendees and to us for promoting it. Enhances the prestige of the event.

1 & 2 give a basis of static content for 'official' information on the event, costs, dates, times, contacts, directions, any other pertinent information. 3 adds to the promotion of the event and allows for feedback before and after.

What we particularly dislike are posts made simply to bring a topic (tournament) back to the top of the list "Just bringing this back to the top". Some people try and be subtle but the net effect is the same.

People dont want to advertise in the forums, they want to advertise in the top 15 subjects that are on the home page..

There is no doubt in my mind that selfish actions of this nature are to the detrement of the site.

It does'nt take much imagination to do it effectively without spoiling the forums for everyone else. You can add a link to the article/diary entry to your signature for example.

Everything in its proper place and all interlinked - its as easy as that!


Posting new topics

Recently, the forums have gone bananas. In addition, we have had several complaints about forums going off-topic.

1. Please check before you create a new topic to ensure that one on the same subject does not already exist.

2. Please stay on subject - Threads with 160 replies are fine as long as they are all on the same subject.

3. Keep personal attacks out of the forums - this is not accpetable behaviour. In the particular case of the debate regarding someone registering as one of Annie Bowden's family members. I personally felt this was a very unacceptable forum to have in its own right.

Although there are loads of moderators, we are very light with our moderation.

Please don't make us become heavy handed. Moderate yourselves.


Pornography
We will not accept posts of a pornographic nature (either graphical or text based) at any time.


Registering
Registration is not required to view current topics on the Bulletin Board; however, if you wish to post a new topic or reply to an existing topic registration is required. Registration is free and only takes a few moments. You must use a valid e-mail address. The information you provide during registration is not outsourced or used for any advertising by Welshblackball.com. If you believe someone is sending you advertisements as a result of the information you provided through your registration, please notify us immediately.

If you are found making multiple usernames, then you will be banned from the site.

Moderators
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Changing Your Profile
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Active Topics
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Editing Your Posts
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Attaching Files
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Searching For Specific Posts
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Censoring Posts
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Under 13?
Children under the age of 13 must not use this website and should leave immediately.