* This forum is owned, run, and operated by the Official Liverpool Supporters Club Boston.
* Membership to this forum is free of charge to all Liverpool FC supporters and membership of the Official LFC Supporters Club Boston is not a requirement to post or view on this forum.
* The LFC Boston committee has elected a Moderator to take charge in all matters concerning the forum. The moderator will carry out his/her duties with the full support of the Committee. The Committee has granted full authority to the Moderator to act as he or she sees fit on this website in accordance with these rules and on behalf of LFC Boston.
* This main purpose of this forum is to allow fans of Liverpool Football Club in the Boston area to congregate and discuss all things related to Liverpool Football Club (LFC) and its Official Supporters Club here in Boston MA, LFC Boston.
* The forum is also to be used by LFC fans to discuss football in general.
* The forum can also be used by LFC fans to discuss any other material providing the discussion topics abide by the rules stated here.
* This forum can also be used by non-LFC fans to discuss football-providing they abide by these forum rules and some extra house rules.
- Non-LFC fans that use this forum must bear in mind that this is first and foremost a forum for supporters of Liverpool FC to discuss all things LFC and general football discussion.
- Non-LFC fans that wish to post and discuss things on this forum must show respect to all things LFC and post in good taste. Non-LFC users must not deliberately provoke LFC fans on this site.
- Bantering is allowed as long as it is (as far as it can be) in good humor. Football and banter go hand in hand. Any hateful, harmful, distasteful, disrespectful, or attacks on LFC will result in a permanent ban from that poster.
* While debating and discussion is fine, rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts will not be tolerated.
* The moderator can at any given time as he or she sees fit in accordance with these rules move, delete, amend posts and threads while also give warnings and serve bans to people who breach these rules.
* The moderator's decision is final in all matters.
* Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) nonsense posts, or such.
* Swearing in topic headers is not allowed. Mild swearing in posts is allowed, but have some tact. If you want to go on a swearing rant, we have the "Central Square" section for your unedited remarks.
* Please post thread topics in specific areas. For example everything related to LFC should be posted in the section "Liverpool." Anything related to Snow, Boston, Music, Food and other sports such as Baseball should be posted in the appropriate section in the "Off Topic" area.
* When starting a new thread, you must search to see if a thread on that topic already exists. Starting multiple threads on the same topic is not allowed. On occasion, starting a new thread on a topic that already exists will happen. When this does occur, the Moderator will merge or delete threads as he / she sees fit.
* Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum in any form to spam other members.
* Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed. We can track your IP address if we think this rule has been violated.
* The LFC Boston Committee, through the moderator, reserves the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
* The language of the forum is English, please only use this language when posting. A few posts in other languages here and there is not a problem but it is when whole threads are in a different language that problems will occur.
* Due to copyright reasons, copying and pasting link content in its entirety is not allowed. Copying and pasting a link URL is however, very much encouraged. Violation of this rule will result in a warning and if necessary, ban for repeated offenses.
* Images may be used providing they do not breach copyright. Please check the image for appropriate copyright information. Images must abide by the rules of this forum.
* Images used for Avatars must be in line with these rules. As this forum can be used by any person of any age, avatars must be age appropriate and abide by the rules of this forum.
* Refrain from filling up entire threads with images. We have a gallery for that. Posting a few images is fine; filling up entire threads with images however, is not. Images must abide by all the rules of the forum.
* Flash video and any other forms of media may be used as long as copyright and the rules of this forum are adhered too.
* No links to other forums are allowed in the signature, but links to personal websites are okay. Furthermore, political and sexually provocative signatures are not allowed.
* Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed.
* Posts or links to sites that are sexual in nature or violate LFC Boston community standards are not allowed.
* The Moderator shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.
* Any posts that are deemed to be in breach of any national or international laws will be removed immediately.
* Posts or links to any articles from the Sun or the News of the World are not allowed. Here is why:
http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=70519.0 - Your first posting, copy and paste, and/or link to or from either of these sources will result in a warning.
- Repeating this offence will result in being banned from the site.
* We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules.
* Being banned from the website does not mean that you are necessarily banned from the Official LFC Boston Supporters Club, or the Phoenix Landing.
* Being banned from the Phoenix Landing or the Official LFC Boston Supporters Club results in an immediate ban from this website. No exceptions.
Addendum* We reserve the right to update and modify these rules as the needs of the community dictate to ensure the smooth operation of this website and forum.
* While these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Therefore we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure the forum is not disrupted or abused in any way.
