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Welcome to Aom3. We hope you become an active, enthusiastic participant, and that you make every effort to keep these forums an enjoyable and educational environment for every visitor.

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We hope that you agree that what we are seeking is nothing more than common courtesy and respectful use of a public resource. If this purpose meets your need, we are pleased to have you on the board and look forward to your participation. Enjoy!

Rules apply to all of the following, unless otherwise specified:

• posts
• signatures
• profiles
• private messages (PM)
• email sent via the forum

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1. Who can post here?
Any individual is welcome to post on topics. Aom3.org reserves the right to disable the board, limit access to the board, ban users, and edit or delete topics and posts at the discretion of volunteer moderators.

2. You are responsible
You are responsible for what you post, and what you read. All posts made are the opinions and views of the author and not necessarily those of Aom3.
Aom3.org is not responsible for the veracity or validity of any information posted here, nor do we vouch for the authenticity or the identity of any of the posters. Aom3.org and its representatives will not be held liable for any information or message posted to any discussion forum and disclaims all liability resulting from any action or inaction taken as a result of reading or posting a message in any discussion forum.

3. Try To Stay on-topic
Post in the appropriate forum and remain on-topic. Start a new topic if you wish to introduce a new subject. Follow-ups should usually be posted to the original topic. Ignore posting errors and duplicate posts.

4. Be original
Aom3.org is for discussion and your contributions should be specific to this forum. Do not cut-and-paste lengthy messages from other websites or lists. If you want to use a lengthy article elsewhere as the basis of discussion that is fine - simply link to it - quoting a paragraph or two for context is fine. Note: if you ever receive an email urging you to post something to every source you know, absolutely do not post it to Aom3.org.

5. Be civil
Be civil in all of your posts and refrain from using inflammatory language or expletives. Volunteer moderators will determine what is inflammatory using their own judgment, without direction from or appeal to Aom3.org

6. No Shouting
DO NOT POST IN ALL CAPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please mind your CapsLock key and do not use excessive punctuation or smilies.

7. Avoid hotlinking images
It is generally a poor idea to link to remote images without permission from the remote site owner. If the owner replaces the image without your knowledge, your post could inadvertently become very inappropriate. It is perfectly OK to link to images hosted on your own site, or on sites where you pay the cost of bandwidth. If you don't have your own site there are free image hosting services.

8. Keep signatures short
In the interest of enhancing readability, extravagant or distracting signatures are strongly discouraged. The forum provides a robust profile capability for contact information and personalization. If you use a signature, it may not exceed 5 lines. Images in signatures may not exceed 100 x 500 pixels. No signature shall exceed a height of 100px plus one line of default text. Violations may be edited without notice.

9. Fraud is a crime
Impersonation of others is a criminal fraudulent act. Individuals who choose to do this will be banned and their Internet service provider may be contacted.

10. Posts that will be edited, deleted, or get you banned

1. Posts containing offensive racial, gender, sexual preference, religious, political, or nationality-bashing language.
2. Any post containing language that is offensive in a public, family context.
3. Links to inappropriate content.
4. Personal attacks on other posters or Aom3 Staff. Comment on ideas, not people.
5. Flame bait. In other words: inflammatory messages posted with an intent to provoke emotional responses. This is not to be confused with a sincerely held belief or opinion that differs from the norm and is expressed in a meaningful and congenial way.
6. Repeated posting of the same or similar messages, and "bumping" a topic more than once.

11. By posting, you agree
By posting to this discussion board, you agree to be bound by these rules.