FRANKOMA TALK

admin · Site Admin Joined: 08 Aug 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Oklahoma

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

As a participant, please keep in mind the following:

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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:

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1. Who Can Post Here?
Any individual is welcome to post on topics of interest to Frankoma pottery, whether or not you are a member of the Frankoma Family Collectors Association. The FFCA 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 Frankoma Family Collectors Association. The FFCA 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. The FFCA 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. No Advertising
Advertisements for products or services are prohibited. Posters may be banned for repeated or egregious violations. Exceptions: Affiliate links are acceptable when recommendations are on-topic. By virtue of hosting this forum at no cost to visitors, the Frankoma Family Collectors Association may from time to time advertise fund-raising items intended to benefit the FFCA, its projects, or its affiliated clubs.

4. No Solicitation
Please keep Frankoma Talk a marketplace of ideas, not a marketplace of pottery. Discussion about Frankoma pottery or pricing is fine but any use of the board to solicit pottery sales, is not. This includes posting requests for others to contact you, posting links to pages where Frankoma is offered, making referrals to pottery for sale, and any posting that could even remotely be considered a solicitation.

5. 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. A moderator will usually fix them. Frankoma Talk is for talk about Frankoma/Gracetone pottery. Virus warnings, urban legends, world events - all are off topic unless Frankoma is somehow related to the topic. As a practical matter, more leeway is allowed within a topic for 'drift' than in obviously off-topic new topics.

6. Be Original
Frankoma Talk 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 Frankoma Talk.

7. 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 the FFCA, its officers, or board of directors, except as may be required by the rules of the association.

8. Don't Monopolize the Board
We encourage you to participate actively, enthusiastically, and frequently. However, for reasons of bandwidth, disk space, and encouraging participation by the broadest audience possible, we ask that you voluntarily limit your postings to five a day within any given topic or conversation that you participate in. You are welcome to participate in as many different conversations as you have interest in.

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

10. 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 inadvertantly 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.

11. Keep Signatures Short
In the interest of controlling bandwidth and 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.

12. 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.

13. Posts that will be Edited, Deleted, or get you Banned

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14. By Posting, You Agree
By posting to this discussion board, you agree to be bound by these rules. FFCA member participation in these forums shall be guided by the code of ethics of the Frankoma Family Collectors Association.