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UKLines Forum Rules
1) Racism, sexism, flaming, discriminating, insulting or upsetting other people is not acceptable and will not be tolerated.
2) All forum members should behave with conduct befitting an adult debate forum.
3) Profane language is strictly prohibited.
4) The use of banners, pictures and avatars is allowed and active on this site, we request that members do not abuse this facility and that all images are of an acceptable size. Acceptable will be taken on a case by case basis, and any images deemed too large will be edited or removed by a member of staff.
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6) All forum postings are made in English, the use of text message language, or Web Slang will result in the post being edited by a member of the management team. Continuous editing of your posts will result in posting privileges being revoked.
7) Members should not repost anything which has been edited or deleted by a member of staff, members who do this will be subject to immediate action.
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13) Members may not discuss disciplinary action towards other members on the boards, a member of staff's decision is final.
14) Users accept that after a certain period, topics and discussions may be locked out of use or deleted. From time to time it may be necessary to delete the oldest threads in order to keep the database at a reasonable size.
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18) Abuse of the private messaging facility will result in the service being withdrawn or suspension of the offenders account. This includes but is not limited to sending of offensive or harassing messages as well as abuse for the purposes of advertising and spamming.
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20) Links and images may be removed at any time by the management team if they are deemed to be commercial advertising or the sites linked to contain sexist, racist or pornographic content as well as links that spread viruses, Trojans, keyloggers or anything else that may cause system instability for our users.
21) The use of the website and forum constitutes acceptance of these terms and conditions.
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