Girl Group Forum Rules
The girlgroup.co.uk community is intended to be a safe, fun environment where lovers of popular music who are particularly fans of girl bands can express and share their opinions and experiences. The following rules are binding on all members of the community and our moderators constantly check the forums to ensure they are being adhered to.
General
No content that may intentionally or incidentally be likely to cause offence to others may be posted to the site. This includes material that contains personally abusive or insulting language, is sexually explicit, racist or otherwise displays prejudice or discrimination on grounds of gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation or physical appearance.
Personal
Members of the Girlgroup community may only post their own original content to the forums. They may accurately quote the opinions of others, but must name the source whether this is an individual or organisation. Members may not give contact details (see below) for third parties and must respect their copyright at all times.
No links to other sites or their content including audio or image files, or contact information whether private, personal or commercial are permitted in posts.
Members should always use 'normal' writing standards. SHOUTING... excessive use of !!!!!!!! ********* and other symbols are not permitted. Emoticons are not allowed. In the first instance offenders will be warned their posts are not compliant with forum rules but continued failure to meet the standard expected will result in a temporary or permanent ban from the girlgroup.co.uk forums.
Spam is not permitted on the girlgroup.co.uk forum site. This includes the promotion of members' own sites; all offers of goods or services and associated referrals or recommendations, whether at a price or free of charge. All spam will be removed immediately. Spammers will be permanently banned from the girlgroup.co.uk forum.
If a member encounters a post or posts they feel is inappropriate, offensive or otherwise in breach of forum rules they should notify our moderator. Members must not directly challenge or engage in argument with one another about the propriety or relevance of the content of posts.
Members may use Avatars on the Girl Group forums but the following conditions apply. Avatars must not be smaller than 20 pixels or larger than 90 pixels square. They must not exceed 6kB (6000) bytes in file size and may not contain any animation. In addition Avatars that are potentially offensive (as described in the General rules above) will be removed.
Signatures are allowed to contain up to five lines of text of small or normal size and may also contain images with a maximum width of 200 pixels and height of 50 pixels. Text and images in signatures are subject to the same rules as forum posts as described above.
Images may be uploaded to posts but must comply with general forum rules and not exceed 256 kb in file size.
Oversight
An administration team, supported by our site moderators, manages the girlgroup.co.uk forums. Minor or inadvertent breaches of the above rules will result in an initial reminder or warning. However, a deliberate and persistent failure to comply with forum rules will result in a temporary or permanent ban being imposed. Participation in the girlgroup.co.uk forums and any disciplinary sanction imposed including the suspension or banning of members is entirely at the discretion of the management team.
GirlGroup Copyright Related Disclaimer
In order to help girl group fans to make the most of the experience of visiting, registering with and posting to our site we do include some visual (images, photos, etc), audio, and audiovisual material and links to them. All of this material is taken in good faith from the public domains and its source acknowledged. We include it to celebrate and encourage interest in girl groups as a popular music genre, to freely promote the featured artists and to introduce site members and visitors to girl groups they may not yet be familiar with. If any artist, holder of copyright or other legal rights over material shown on the girlgroup.co.uk site feels their rights are being infringed, or for any other reason would like the content removed from the site, they should directly. We will accommodate all legitimate requests in this regard, subject to verification of the source of such requests.