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Etiquette & Guidelines
The Golden Skate (GS) Forum is a part of the Golden Skate site and is intended for all ages, genders, races etc. The forum was created in
order to provide a fun, relaxing, and yet informative environment for skating-related posts.
Everyone is welcome to post, however, please do so responsibly and remember that minors
read the forum.
Q: What are the rules?
A: Use common sense when posting. Violations consist of but are not limited
to:
- Character assassination - Character assassination is an intentional attempt to influence the portrayal or reputation of a particular person in such a way as to cause others to develop a negative, unethical and/or unappealing perception of him or her.
- Trolling - Trolling is defined as deliberately posting derogatory, inflammatory
comments/threads in order to bait other users into responding.
- Personal attacks on another poster - Personal attacks on another poster includes (but is not limited to) insults and name-calling
- Vulgar and/or offensive language; profanity - Self explanatory
- Spamming - Spamming includes (but is not limited to): comments not contributing to the board, advertisements, cross posts, and messages posted repeatedly.
- Invasion of privacy of member and/or skater - Invading one's privacty is posting personal information
pertaining to another member and/or skater.
- Impersonating another member - Self explanatory
- Any illegal activity - Self explanatory
- Discriminating and/or racial posts - Posts that support or espouse hatred towards another individual or group based upon any
criteria (including race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, beliefs, etc.).
- Use of political or religious images: Signature files and/or images that support, promote or otherwise advertise a particular religion or political party.
Posters face loss of forum privileges for
the any violations above via the "Infraction System". Three strikes and you're out.
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SKATER PRIVACY POLICY
Golden Skate respects the privacy of skaters, coaches, and officials in the sport. Golden Skate does not permit or condone undocumented gossip about their personal lives.
Discussions of off-ice behavior, religion, political affiliation, sexual orientation, dating life, etc. should be limited to what has been publicly disclosed by the skater.
While speculation is one thing, accusation is another, and can be considered slander.
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Custom Titles
Q: What is a Custom Title? How do I get one?
A: A Custom Title is the text line beneath your username in a post.
Titles are based upon the number of posts you have made in the Golden Skate
Forum.
They are as follows:
|
Number of Posts |
Title |
| 1-24 Posts |
Rinkside |
| 25-49 Posts |
On the Ice |
| 50-74 Posts |
Tripping on the Podium |
| 75-100 Posts |
Medalist |
| 100+ Posts |
Custom Title |
Once you have accumulated over 100 posts in the GS Forum, you
can enter your own title by logging into the forum and editing your
Profile.
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Event Spoilers
Q: What are "Spoilers"?
A: Spoilers are posts that contain results from competitions and other figure skating events that are scheduled to be televised or broadcasted in the future.
Q: Are "spoilers" bad?
A: Yes and No. While some people like to know results right away, others prefer to wait until the event is televised so that the element of surprise isn't "spoiled".
Q: So are spoilers allowed in the GS Forum?
A: Yes and No. Spoilers are allowed in the Events folder ONLY. You will generally find the Events folder.
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If you will be using an AOL account, please take the time to read in order to prevent your account from being suspended in the future.
The Golden Skate forums have various features that, if enabled, will result in the system sending you email. These include:
- Receive email from administrators
- Receive email from other members
- Notification of new replies to subscribed threads
- Notification of new Private Messages
You can control which of these are applied to your account by using the Edit Options section of the User Control Panel.
The AOL email program has a Report as Spam button which allows users to easily report spam. Actually it allows users to report ANYTHING as spam.
If enough email from the Golden Skate forums is reported to AOL as spam, then AOL will just dump all email coming from the Golden Skate mail servers as well emails coming from our host's servers.
This is also one explanation for why emails that are sent to you from various sources might not arrive. If you have any questions concerning the procedures for reporting messages and the action that AOL takes, contact AOL.
In Summary:
Any AOL user who uses AOL's "Report as Spam" feature to report Golden Skate forum emails will have their account suspended indefinitely.
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