GFSA Forum RulesThe overriding rule of the forum is: Be nice! Always treat fellow members with respect and consideration. Bear in mind that this is a family forum with no age restriction, so your words may be viewed by minors, persons with strong religious convictions or persons who are just plain "delicate souls". So we ask that you always be considerate of these when posting.
1. CONTENT RULESWe
do not allow any user names, signatures, images, posts or messages which we interpret as:
a. containing bigoted, hateful or racially/sexually offensive statements, images or language that defames, abuses, harasses or threatens others;
b. having content which advocates illegal activity or discusses illegal activities with the intent to commit them;
c. containing unauthorized copyrighted material, or links to such - e.g. software, audio files, tabulature, lyrics or any other material not listed here specifically;
d. having religious or political content;
e. explicitly advertising commercial products, manufacturers or their distributors, retail stores, commercial services
or other web sites. Those wishing to advertise please see
this link.
f. having URLs as user names - i.e. "yoursitename.com", "yoursitename.co.za" or "
www.yoursitename" are not allowed, but "yoursitename" is.
g. containing banners or text links to affiliate advertising services, or any other method to capitalise on partaking in the forum.
2. CYBERSTALKING"Cyberstalking" will result in us encouraging the offended member to press charges and supply the authorities with any records neccessary to aid in any subsequent investigation or prosecution.
3. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONSa. If you have any affiliation with any individual or company that engages in the business of making, selling or repairing music gear, that offers services to musicians (including owning or working for such companies
or being an endorser of their products), you
must include your affiliation in your signature. No exceptions. The affiliation must take the form of "
Affiliations: Company 1, Company 2, Brand 1, Brand 2", etc.
ONLY. One company name may be hyperlinked to the company web site, but
one only and
no further advertising taglines or solicitous messages are allowed. Text style is to be kept standard colour and size (or smaller).
b. If you do have a professional affiliation with a product or manufacturer, you are expected to refrain from entering into discussion on or explicitly promoting those same products or services directly or commenting on any competing manufacturer, product or service.
4. MUSIC-RELATED COMPANIESa. While advertising posts are not allowed, per rule 1.e above, you
must use the "affiliation" discussed in rules 3a above, which also serves to mention your site, product or service in your signature. This means that each time you make a worthwhile post to the forum, you will be promoting yourself and your business at the same time as adding to the value of this forum. For those wishing to undertake more direct advertising, please see
this link, or contact (
Norio or
Alan) for options.
b. You may not respond publicly or via PM (Private Message) to any public forum post enquiring about your product, services or pricing. The exception is if a member PMs you directly, then you may respond by PM with details. Forum members making public enquiries will be encouraged to PM you directly for details.
c. You may not enter into any discussion about your product. You may also not comment on a competing manufacturer, product or service, and especially not to devalue their reputation - please treat them as you would like them to treat you and
your product or service.
d. If you are a retail outlet and have details of a sale, workshop or other worthwhile event you think will be of use to our members, please contact one of the administrators for clearance
before posting details.
5. OTHER (NON-MUSIC RELATED) COMPANIESRegular members may list their non music-related website in the space provided but may NOT link to it from their signature or place any other text in post or signatures to promote such. Accounts we judge to have been created with the express purpose of presenting links to promote other sites in this way will be deemed as link spam and the member will immediately be banned and their account deleted with no warning.
6. "CONTACTS" SECTIONThe "Contacts" board, is for the use those supplying services to the South African musical community ONLY: teachers, session musicians and repair persons, etc.
7. "CLASSIFIEDS" SECTIONa. The Classified ads section is
for our Southern African members only.
b. Ad posts in the "Classifieds" section are only for
secondhand goods which are being
sold by individuals,
not for retail outlets or new items.
c. Please be aware that buying and selling items in the classifieds is at your own risk. Guitarforum.co.za cannot be held in any way responsible for any unsatisfactory transactions you might have buying or selling items in the classifieds.
d. Do not post anything negative about an item for sale in the classifieds section. If you have an issue with any detail of a classified item, please keep it out of the ad thread by sending a PM (Personal Message) the advertiser directly via the PM system provided. If you feel the ad misrepresents the item or in some way transgresses the forum rules, please use the "Report to moderator" link to notify us and we will investigate and take any action.
e. Do not post any items of your own to someone else's classified thread. Consider the thread as belonging to the original poster - in effect as their "stall" set up to sell their own items - and treat it as such.
8. YOUTUBE VIDEOSWe allow posting of YouTube videos by
regular members in the board provided.
However, this is only open to regular members and posting nothing but videos with a view to promoting your YouTube presence and without otherwise taking part in the forum is not allowed and such posts will be deleted.
9. MODERATIONa. Any moderation action taken, such as edited or deleted posts, is final. Moderators may choose to enter into discussion to clarify their reasoning for an action taken, but this is entirely at their own discretion.
b. Any discussion about matters pertaining to moderation to be carried out by PM (Personal Message)
only, and not on the forum itself. This applies to all discussion, whether the moderation applies to you directly or not. Enquiries should be addressed to one of the moderators.
c. If you are unsure about a post you want to make or other moderation matters please ask the moderators or administrators
before posting.
FURTHERMORE:We, the administrators, reserve the right to delete any topics or posts, including but not limited to those which we feel violate these rules. We also reserve the right to suspend or ban users who we feel have transgressed these rules seriously enough to warrant such.
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Under no circumstances will the owners and administrators of GFSA be liable for any loss or damage caused by content available on or through the FORUM. It is the responsibility of users to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any content available on or through the FORUM.
