Overall Community Attitude

• Always display a positive, friendly attitude


• Be respectful of others' opinions


• Allow your fellow members to voice their opinions


• DO NOT deliberately start arguments. Debates are great, as long as they
  remain respectful!


• Always try to "give" back to our community. For each time you find help
  or answers here at World Meeting Point, try to help someone else out in
  return. You may find that what goes around comes around...


• Give people a little time to respond to your requests. There's a lot
  going on in these forums and it may take a little time for people to notice
  and respond to your request. Please be patient.


• DO NOT just make a negative statement and leave the person hanging out
  to dry. Although you may consider yourself to be an "expert" now, try to
  remember that we were all new and learning once upon a time. Take it easy on
  your fellow members!


• Do NOT make threats or implied threats towards other members -- even if
  you think it's fun.

Inappropriate Behavior

• DO NOT make inappropriate or offensive posts - including threats,
  harrassment, swearing, prejudice, slander or deliberate
  insults/name-calling, or other negative remarks about World Meeting Point,
  its moderators and administrators or your fellow members. Even if this is
  just your own personal opinion, RESPECT YOUR FELLOW MEMBERS


• Do NOT drag another member's personal site into a forum discussion
  unless the discussion directly involves that site OR if the member brings
  his or her own site into the discussion first. There's no point in ruining a
  good debate by accidentally (or intentionally) offending someone with a
  personal comment.


• World Meeting Point believes in integrity and respects what other forums
  have to offer. Because we realize members of World Meeting Point may also be
  members of other forums, do not try to degrade or discredit other forums,
  their administrators and moderators, or their members. This includes slander
  and other offensive comments.


• DO NOT POST PORN or adult content. This also inludes sites promoting
  activities such as drug abuse, gambling and links to sites containing such
  content.


• Even though this is an international forum, please make sure that your
  posts are written in English.


• We want World Meeting Point to be open to people of all ages, genders,
  races, and sexualities, so any inappropriate or offensive posts will be
  deleted.

Forum Abuse Policy:

• 1st Offense - A polite Private Message from a Moderator pointing out the
  Forum Rules, in addition to the editing or deletion of the post


• 2nd Offense - Public warning on the message board plus deletion of post


• 3rd Offense - Depending on severeness of the commited abuse, Moderators
  will discuss and possibly delete the user from the World Meeting Point
  Forums


• 4th Offense - Depending on severeness of the commited abuse, Moderators
  will discuss and possibly delete the user from the World Meeting Point
  Forums


• 5th Offense - Staff will delete the user from the World Meeting Point
  Forums.

Depending on the situation, Admin may bypass any and all of these steps and take
whatever action is deemed appropriate.

Private Message and Email Abuse Policy:

• DO NOT use World Meeting Point as a basis for spamming or scamming our
  members.


• We take PM/email abuse very seriously, and it will result in the
  immediate removal of your membership and ban of your IP address, without
  warning

Our SPAM Policy

• Please make sure that you are posting for the good of the community, not
  just for the sake of self-promotion :)


• Please refrain from posting affiliate links and press releases in our
  forums.


• Do NOT use the World Meeting Point community for the purpose of 'spam'
  or excessive advertisements! This includes forum posts, private messages, or
  emails to other World Meeting Point members


• Our moderators reserve the right to edit or delete any posts they
  consider to be 'spam'


• If we find that you are spamming our community, you will be warned by a
  Moderator or Site Admin, and it may lead to the deletion of your posts
  and/or the removal of your World Meeting Point account


• Posts should add something to the discussion they are posted in. If someone asks "Do you know some good poems?", saying "no, I don't" won't be of any value. You will be fined WMPs when doing so.

Identity Theft

• DO NOT impersonate anyone whom you are not, regardless of who the other
  individual may be. Identity theft is illegal and will not be tolerated.

Posting Guidelines

• Post should at least contain three words.


• Posts should be in clear English. We understand not everyone speak English, and we understand you might make grammar errors, but please refrain from TXT Talk (ur ma homie), Leetspeak (+h3 kwiCk 8R0WN pHox juMP$ 0v3R t3h L@zY DoG) and typing errors (I liek it).


• Double posts are not allowed. If you want to add something to a previous post, please use the edit button.


• DO NOT post the same topic in multiple forums. If you are unsure of
  which forum a thread should go under, just state that in your post, and a
  moderator will move the thread to the correct forum. Multiple posts are
  unnecessary and will be deleted.


• DO NOT post the same question multiple times in multiple threads in the
  same forum. If no one responds to your question or request, just post a
  reply to the same message thread again to bring the message to the top of
  the list so folks notice it.

Signature Restrictions:

• Maximum length: 4 lines, unless Admin, Moderator or Top Level Staff.


• You may link to your site, but no illegal, pornographic or otherwise
  objectionable links are allowed


• No more than 3 links per signature

Font Restrictions:

• Do NOT use excessively large font sizes, as it is considered to be
  "shouting" and will be edited back down to the default size by the
  moderators

Image Restrictions:

• Unless otherwise stated, if you post an image in the forums, please keep
  the image size under 50K, and preferably under 300 x 300 pixels