IMSICKOFBEINGFAT.COM Message Board – Member Policy

Here at IMSICKOFBEINGFAT.COM we are committed to fostering a helpful, friendly, and polite online message board community where members can openly discuss weight loss problems/tips, express opinions, heed advice, and most importantly form new friendships. A broad range of discussions from Success stories, General Medical Information, A Healthy Alternative, and discussing current events occur on the board daily.

As with any internet community there are a few basic rules that must be followed to ensure that you’re IMSICKOFBEINGFAT.COM online community experience is a positive one.

Community Rules

Our message boards are moderated on a regular basis and are strictly governed by a set of community rules. By posting on our message boards, you are in agreement that you accept our rules as part of IMSICKOFBEINGFAT.COM’s terms and conditions.

1) First and foremost, maintain a friendly tone and be respectful when posting topics or replying to threads in every post you make. The IMSICKOFBEINGFAT.COM message board community is meant to be an inviting and pleasant place, where members feel welcomed and friendships are formed.

2) Don’t flame someone for his or her opinions. We all think differently and may not agree with others opinions. If you disagree with someone, please agree to disagree - nicely. Do not get personal with someone regarding an opinion that you may not agree with. If you do, your posts WILL be deleted. Name-calling and insulting of other posters is not permitted. Please remember in your replies to follow the golden rule of posting: “If you wouldn’t say it to them in person, don’t say it here!”

3) Racial or ethnic slurs, sexism, slander and bad/offensive language will not be tolerated. IMSICKOFBEINGFAT.COM automatically edits out most objectionable language, but some words may need to be deleted manually. If you see language or read a post that you consider personally offensive, please report it to contact us. Please everyone; let’s work together to keep it clean and friendly!

4) IMSICKOFBEINGFAT.COM recognizes that many of its members may have and employ active memberships within other un-related message board communities, and we fully respect the member’s right to do so. However, we request that any issues/scandals/drama that may be happening within these other communities remain where they are. IMSICKOFBEINGFAT.COM has the right to delete links that may be disruptive/harmful to IMSICKOFBEINGFAT.COM and its community members.

5) Do not post, hyperlink or up upload illegal content. This includes, but is not limited to:

a. Material concerned with pornography and strongly sexually suggestive material
b. Material concerned with illegal drugs and drug use
c. Material concerned with committing crimes or making weapons or explosives
d. Pirated software, music, or other media, including modern commercial game emulation, file sharing networks and ways of circumventing copy protection. Discussing the implications, ethics and other theoretical aspects of these subjects is acceptable, but promoting, advocating or providing specific details is not.

6) Voicing your personal grievances on the message board itself is ill advised. If there is an instance where a member is causing problems or doing something inappropriate on a topic or post, please do not respond to the post. This just bumps it back up to the top of the board and draws more attention to it. Instead, please email me at contact us and we will quickly do what we can to resolve the matter at hand.

7) There is no advertising allowed on the forums. Feel free to offer your expert advice or participate freely in discussions, but please refrain from posting any information regarding your business such as telephone numbers, website address, email address, business logos and photos. If you wish to advertise with IMSICKOFBEINGFAT.COM please contact us.

8) No SPAM

Not following the Community Rules in the Message Board Area will result in posts being removed; and further offenses will result in your posting privileges being revoked.

The opinions expressed in these forums do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the site owner, forum moderators or administrators. IMSICKOFBEINGFAT.COM can not be held responsible for any and all opinions expressed on these sites, nor can it be held responsible for the personal safety of its members.

Signature content

In order to assist with load times and maximize enjoyment of the boards during peak usage and for user with low bandwidth, the rules regarding acceptable signature content are changing to be as follows:

- members are limited to a maximum of 3 lines of text, in addition to 2 of the following:

- one (1) "blinkie" no larger than 150 x 20

- one (1) "ticker"

- one (1) "smiley" or small image no larger than 200x200 pixels in dimensions and no larger than 20 Kb (2048 0 bytes) in file size

Violators will have their signature edited accordingly. If you wish to include a picture of yourself, your pet, etc. please place such images in your profile or size them appropriately and use them as an avatar.

Thank you for your cooperation – and overall, please enjoy the community and all it has to offer!