Message Board Rules
Agreements
As a user of a Clique Site or Clique Services, you have already agreed to the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy, both of which apply to your use of this entire site, including the message boards. In addition to those rules, the following rules also apply to your use of the message boards. Your use of the message boards signifies your consent to these Message Board Rules. If you do not agree to all of these rules, you are not permitted to use the message boards. It is every user's responsibility to read, understand and comply with all posted rules, including any rules that may be posted from time to time. Ignorance of the rules is not a defense. You may contact Customer Service with any questions you may have regarding these rules.
Moderator Rights and Responsibilities
Moderators of the message boards reserve the right to remove any content posted by users, or to suspend or ban any user at anytime or for any reason in accordance with these rules and in their sole discretion. They also reserve the right to handle all moderator issues privately.
Please remember that moderators are also users and are dedicating their free time to preserving the integrity of the site for every user's enjoyment. Please make sure you treat them with the respect they deserve.
All correspondence with board moderators should include your username, email address and detailed explanation of the problem encountered.
Moderators are not employees of Clique, Sparkart LLC, the Artist, or any other party; they work as volunteers to help ensure the success of the online community.
Please send any complaint you have to one of the moderators. If they are unable to rectify the situation, they will contact site management.
User Decorum and Standard of Care
This site has users of all ages and all are expected to conduct themselves in a mature and responsible manner. Users are to respect the opinions of others and refrain from attacking another person for expressing their opinions. Name-calling, personal attacks and harassment of any kind will not be tolerated. As previously stated, moderators of this message board reserve the right to remove any content posted by users, or to suspend or ban any user at anytime or for any reason in accordance with these rules and in their sole discretion.
If you feel you, or any other user, has been attacked or harassed, please contact the moderators immediately.
Disciplinary Action
The following list includes, but is not limited to, actions that may result in the banning of a user from making any further posts on the Message Board. Banned Message Board Users may or may not be banned from using subscription services operated by Clique (other than the message board from which they were banned), in Clique's sole discretion. Regardless, a banned user is not entitled to a refund for any subscription service they may have purchased from Clique.
There is no room for argument in defining and interpreting these terms. Moderators and management will make the final determinations in their sole discretion. Banned users are NOT entitled to explanations from moderators or management regarding their expulsion. Under no circumstances is a user entitled to a warning before they are banned.
- Flaming, which includes, but is not limited to, use of racial, religious or ethnic slurs, sexually discriminative or homophobic language, cussing, and derogatory labeling.
- Posting of pornographic or otherwise inappropriate, offensive or obscene images.
- Posting of subscription service exclusive content, including media, news, links, etc.
- Posting of stolen music.
- Use of another user's photo, or any modified version thereof, without the user's consent.
- Use of another individual's private information, or any modified version thereof, without the individual's consent.
- Spamming the board as a whole or by individual forum.
- Threats at any level, but most severely, threat or encouragement of physical harm.
- Hacking, including, but not limited to, hacking into or disabling other user or moderator accounts.
- Impersonation of a band member in any form.
Duration of Disciplinary Actions
The length of a ban will be determined in the sole discretion of the moderators and management. The level of severity and degree of disruption caused by the offense will be considered. If a banned user returns to the board with a new account, that account will also be banned. Other users posting for banned users will result in disciplinary action on the posting user. All bans shall occur without refund.
Posting
You are cautioned not to post your own personal information in the interest of safety. You should not post your address, telephone number, or anything that might put you at risk. Clique is not responsible for monitoring this information, nor liable for any consequences that may result from the exchange of this information.
Clique does not police copyright violations. If any user is reported to have violated copyrighted material, Clique is not liable for any damages resulting from such violation. Additionally, the violating user is subject to ban as a result of posting copyrighted material.
Please ensure that your thread title properly describes your post. The moderators do not have time to read every thread and may move something based on the thread title.
If you would like to start a new thread, please take the time to see if there is already a thread started for that topic. Duplicate threads will be locked and the original will remain.
Please make every attempt to post in the correct forum. The moderators will move threads not posted in the proper area.
Do not use another user's name in your thread title unless it is a positive post.
Internet etiquette states that UPPER CASE letters are shouting. Unless it is something urgent, please use lower case letters when adding new discussions.
If you start a thread and then regret your decision, within a reasonable time, you may ask to have the thread deleted. If the deletion of the thread will not adversely affect another user, the moderators will delete the thread provided the request is not unreasonable.
Please post in English only. The moderators for this board can only moderate in English and will delete any posts that are in any language other than English.
Always provide the proper link when posting articles so that credit is given to the proper source.
Please refrain from spreading rumors, particularly about the band. If you did not receive the information you are posting from a credible source, please do not post it. Moderators reserve the right to delete any posts they believe to contain false information.
Rule Changes
Management of this board reserves the right to amend and/or implement new Message Board Rules at anytime. New Rules may be posted periodically. It is every user's responsibility to read, understand and comply with all posted rules. Your continued access to or use of the message boards after any such change to these rules shall constitute your consent to such change.
Last Updated: July 2, 2007