BellaOnline Forum Rules

The BellaOnline forums are moderated by BellaOnline administrators, and all posts within our BellaOnline system must follow our rules. Repeated violation of our rules will lead to banning of the user account and notification being sent to the user's ISP.

BellaOnline has an online Terms of Use which apply to all forum accounts and posts. You can read the terms here:

BellaOnline Terms of Use

The BellaOnline forum is provided free of charge to you by BellaOnline.com under these Terms of Service. If you visit the BellaOnline forums as a guest, these Terms of Service will govern your use of BellaOnline's forums. If you register as a member of the BellaOnline's forum community, these Terms of Service will govern your use of BellaOnline's forums. BY SIGNING ON TO THE BELLAONLINE FORUMS AS A GUEST AND/OR COMPLETING THE REGISTRATION PROCESS AND SELECTING THE "LOG IN" OPTION, YOU ARE INDICATING YOUR AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF USE AS SUCH TERMS MAY BE MODIFIED FROM TIME TO TIME.

You alone are responsible for the content of your messages, and the consequences of any such messages. BellaOnline.com reserves the right to terminate your registration if it becomes aware and determines, in its sole discretion, that you are violating any of the Terms of Use guidelines.

BellaOnline's forums are specifically designed as support forums for their specific topics. For example, the cats forum is specifically to support cats and cat owners - to discuss cat care, cat medical conditions, and other cat-related topics. Any NON cat support related content may be deleted at BellaOnline's discretion. Repeated off-topic posts are grounds for banning of the offending member account. Off-topic posts include spam and commercial posts. Off-topic posts also include posts which actively antagonize people who are interested in that topic. A person who repeatedly posted that "dogs are better" or "cats are awful" are violating the support purpose of that forum. The posts will be removed, and the user banned from the forum system.

We do not allow any links to webcams. There is no way for us to control what a person does in front of a webcam and as such, we do not wish to take chances with pornographic content.

Advertising and Spamming
Visitors participate in the BellaOnline forums to discuss, on BellaOnline, the given topic at hand. We welcome all productive posts on the topic which engage in this discussion. For this reason, posts should not be created with a main aim to drive visitors away from BellaOnline. This type of post is advertising, and BellaOnline has an entirely separate system for advertisers to use. BellaOnline Advertising Area.

Visitor posts may have one external link. This link may be either manually entered or automatically via a signature. A post cannot solely exist as an external link or a "go here to read the actual content". The post itself must contain the main content the user wishes to contribute. Follow up messages to the post should also be intended for the BellaOnline forum. The forum thread should not indicate for visitors to "comment on this other site off of BellaOnline".

BellaOnline moderator accounts may have up to three external links, as many editors manage multiple sites.

As every external link is innately a form of advertising, all links must follow standard BellaOnline advertising rules. They cannot be to pornographic sites, casinos, gambling, or any illegal activity promoting website. BellaOnline management has the final say about what is appopriate for our site to promote.

Finally, any external link must be incidental to the post, not its main focus. If the poster has a MySpace page, they can post a message about "how to make delicious dog treats" and then in their signature have their name and a link to their MySpace page. However, a post cannot be "everybody go visit my MySpace page". That link is no longer incidental - that is advertising, made with the intention for visitors to leave BellaOnline and go elsewhere. All advertising should be done via the BellaOnline Advertising Area.

Most of the ads shown in the forum area are donated to charity. Any additional links detract from our charity efforts. We take the forum advertising / external link policy very seriously, and our visitors complain very loudly when spammers begin to post these types of messages in our forum. As a result, we actively ban visitors who are guilty of numerous spam or advertising postings.

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