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Guidelines and Info

|Etiquette||Custom Titles|
|Event Spoilers| |AOL Users|

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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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AOL Users

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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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