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Community Guidelines
The Community Guidelines are a set of rules that will help ensure the Thisislondon.co.uk community remains a safe and welcoming community for everyone who participates. They outline what is deemed unacceptable behavior and it is important to read over them carefully. Reading and posting messages to the Thisislondon.co.uk message boards constitutes acceptance of these guidelines.
Discussion on the message boards that violates these guidelines may be removed and we reserve the right to suspend or ban members who contravene these guidelines.
- Do not post a comment that is negative remark about another member. Personal insults are strictly not allowed.
- Do not post comments which are likely to incite religious or racial intolerance of any sort.
- Defamatory comments are not allowed.
- Do not post anything relating to any ongoing or pending trial.
- Whilst the discussion of matters relating to sexual health is allowed, crude or explicit sexual references are not.
- Do not post material that is protected by copyright. Summarise it in your own words and insert a link to the original where possible.
- Do not advertise.
- Links to, or URLs of, personal sites or other community sites may be removed.
- Do not impersonate any member, particularly a member of staff or a Community Host.
- Discussion of suspended/banned members is not allowed.
- Posts actively soliciting sponsorship or linking to online petitions may be removed.
- Our message boards are not to be used to trace the whereabouts of people.
Breaking these guidelines, which includes failing to respect the spirit and tone of the community or postings/emails which demand a disproportionate amount of time and moderation by the Community Team, may result in an account suspension or, in extreme cases, a permanent ban.
Following are the guidelines for those members who contravene the Community Guidelines:
| 1st instance of abuse | 2nd instance of abuse | 3rd instance of abuse | 4th instance of abuse |
| warning | 1 week suspension |
2 week suspension |
ban |
Suspended / banned users are not allowed to post to our message boards or participate in the live chat rooms on any ANM website. If you post during a suspension or ban, we reserve the right to contact your Internet Service Provider or employer.
Finally, we strongly support all members of the Thisislondon.co.uk community to enforce and maintain high standards of participation. Should you ever feel that members are violating these standards, then please click on the 'Report this post to moderator' link next to the post in question so as to let us know.
