Terms and rules

Rules

SFFchronicles is a moderated forum, that offers a safe and friendly place to discuss science fiction/fantasy in books, films, and TV.

We only have a couple of actual rules:

1. Civility First

We expect discussions - but not arguments. Members engaged in aggressive behaviour, such as personal attacks, attempts to dominate discussions, intimidation in public or private, may be banned without warning.

Also note that we do not allow discussion topics such as contemporary politics and social issues, or matters of personal faith.

2. Supporter self-promotion

Only Supporters are allowed to self-promote, both in the public forums as well as member profile pages. Supporters are allowed to post promotion notices to the Promotions board, as well as include a text link/image signature to accompany all of their posts. You can upgrade to Supporter here.

As a basic anti-spam measure, we also do not allow new members to post link until they have 15 posts (sorry!).

Note that attempts to circumvent these limits by flooding the forums with useless one-liner posts is likely to lead to a banning.

Self-promotion by new members can result in a ban.

WARNING: We use and report to the StopForumSpam database, whch means members banned here may be unable to register at other forums.

3. Supporter Memberships and Signatures

These are available here, and cost £14.95 per year (approx USD$20). These help pay for the forum costs, not least hosting fees, software improvements, and general expansion.

As a thank you, Supporters are allowed to add a signature in their profile, in one of the following formats:

• a) A single line of text that includes a link
• b) Two lines of text containing no links
• c) Up to 3 book cover images, each no more than 100 pixels high (or wide). This is intended to specifically benefit published writers on the forums.

All text must be font size 1, and no other images are allowed.

Terms

The providers ("we", "us", "our") of the service provided by this web site ("Service") are not responsible for any user-generated content and accounts. Content submitted express the views of their author only.

This Service is only available to users who are at least 13 years old. If you are younger than this, please do not register for this Service. If you register for this Service, you represent that you are this age or older.

All content you submit, upload, or otherwise make available to the Service ("Content") may be reviewed by staff members. All Content you submit or upload may be sent to third-party verification services (including, but not limited to, spam prevention services). Do not submit any Content that you consider to be private or confidential.

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We may remove or modify any Content submitted at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice. Requests for Content to be removed or modified will be undertaken only at our discretion. We may terminate your access to all or any part of the Service at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice.

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