Post by sunshine on Aug 30, 2010 7:12:51 GMT -5
PLEASE RESPECT THE CASTROS' WISH THAT THIS BE A FAMILY FRIENDLY MESSAGE BOARD
This forum is open to fans as young as 13. Please don't use profanity, including abbreviations or deliberate misspellings of explicit language. Please don't use racist or sexist remarks, discuss adult themes, or post or link to offensive or vulgar material.
PLEASE RESPECT JASON, HIS FAMILY AND HIS FRIENDS
Please respect the privacy of Jason, his family and friends. Discussion, analysis or speculation about their personal lives can't be allowed here. Jason gives us a lot. Let him keep some things to himself.
Please remember that Jason's family or friends will be members of this forum. We ask that you respect their time while they're here and also ask that members refrain from PM-ing them. If you need to get information to them our admins, Kali and Sunshine, can contact them.
PLEASE RESPECT OTHER FORUM MEMBERS
Respect others' views even if you disagree with them. We each have the right to our own opinions and the right to respectfully state what those opinions are. Discussion and debate are welcome and encouraged, but please remember that disagreeing with and disliking an idea doesn't require that you dislike the person.
Sometimes people can write something that you may find offensive. Please consider that the person may not have intended to cause offense. It's very easy to misinterpret a post on forums, because there's no tone of voice or body language to help you decide what the intent is.
PLEASE RESPECT THE STAFF
They try to please everyone they can, but in the end, they're charged with making this community as enjoyable for as many people as they possibly can. They can not always be right, nor can they please everyone with the decisions made, but they're doing their "jobs" and hopefully we can all agree that they're doing their best to ensure a great community here.
Please be respectful in both the forums and any private communications with moderators. Moderators are volunteers that donate many, many hours of their own time to help in the forum.
If you feel that an egregious oversight has been made, then privately mail the moderator group. Do not post complaints on the forum.
PLEASE RESPECT OTHER JASON CASTRO FORUMS
Jason and his family want JasonCastroMusic to be a place where fans from all the Jason Forums can gather on common ground The Castros reached out to members of Castrocopia, DaydreamingBoy, IdolForums, JasonCastroOnline, Jason's Goth Girls, the official AI site and to international fans in building this site and it's important to them that everyone feel welcome here. Please be respectful of the other sites and their members on this forum.
PERSONAL DISPUTES
Please do not use these forums for personal disputes, heated debates, flame wars etc. Treat each other with respect in the forums and take any personal disputes to a private discussion off the board. If you should find that your discussion is becoming too heated or someone is becoming far too passionate about their argument, try stepping away from the discussion.
Please do not use the PM (Private Messages) system of this forum to carry on personal attacks, disputes or to tell another member how to post. This is considered the same as attacking and fighting on the open boards and you could lose your PM privileges for violations. If you receive a PM of this nature, please forward it to a moderator.
FUNDRAISING
Fundraising and group gifts for anything but charitable organizations is not allowed on this forum.
THE TOPIC OF TOPICS
Please try to keep to the topic of the thread. If you want to raise a new issue then consider whether a new topic is more appropriate.
Please look around to see if someone has already posted a thread for the topic you want to discuss. We can't merge threads here, so duplicate topics will have to be closed or deleted. You will receive a PM if your thread is deleted and we hope that you won't take it personally. We're just trying to keep Jason's forum organized for him and for you.
Please don't post the same topic or message in multiple threads across the board. We've tried to make a place for everything and readers will find your thread when they get to that area of the forum.
When posting a new topic, please make sure your subject is descriptive, so the other members understand what your topic is about. "Yay!" or "Has anyone seen this?" are vague, but "Yay! Jason's CD just went platinum!!" or "Has anyone seen this interview from DallasMusic.com?" will bring readers to your thread.
PLEASE CONSIDER THE READABILITY OF YOUR POST
Multi-nested quotes are hard on the eyes and difficult to read. When quoting please select just the last person you're responding to.
Please don't repeatedly quote a picture or graphic on the same page. Multiple graphics may cause the page to load slowly for everyone, so please don't quote a picture on the same page on which it was posted.
POSTING PHOTOS/GRAPHICS
Please feel free to share your photos. We do require that if you are not the person who took the picture, that you credit the photog and the site/forum/place where you found the pic when posting. If you don't...it will be removed.
We also require that you stay within the size limits we request on the forum. Pictures may not be bigger than 550 X 329. If they are, you will be asked to resize them. We require the size guidelines to be followed to help keep the forum loading quickly. Too many large pictures slow the forum down ALOT.
Graphics in signatures can be a maximum of 150 pixels high.
PLEASE IGNORE THE TROLLS
What is a troll? It's a person who posts something which is bound to stir people up and then sits back and watches as dozens of people jump in and start arguing. Sometimes trolls get their friends to join in or post under different names. Generally they will do anything it takes to get attention. Maybe they just need a little love.
If you see a message like this, please try to refrain from replying and report it privately to a moderator.
PLEASE RESPECT THE FIRE
Stay away from it!
When you want to make a point, please do not resort to flaming. Flaming is the practice of attacking another person or group of people on a personal level. Name-calling, assuming character flaws, belittling, and nasty comments are all considered flaming. Remember not to post “flame-bait." Flame-bait is a statement that, in the context of a discussion, is intended to illicit an inflammatory response. Remember that people are more likely to receive your message when it is sent with love and respect.
THE JOB OF THE MODS
We want everyone to have a pleasant experience on Jason's forum, but sometimes we have to be the bad guy. We don't like it, but it comes with the job.
Please know that the moderating staff may have to edit/modify any posting/message in order to keep the boards organized and peaceful. This includes duplicate postings containing the same information, duplicate threads and fixing broken or inaccurate links if we cannot reach you to make the correction yourself. In most cases, we will notify you privately of the modification.
If a member "crosses the line" one too many times, the moderating staff will issue the user a private warning. Further action will be have to be taken if the warning is ignored. This can be anything from locking the offending user account, to deletion and banning of the user. Action is generally on a case by case basis.
Please report any trouble and/or genuine concerns by private message to any of the moderators. They are here to listen and act quickly should a problem or an issue arise. Thanks.
LEGAL MUMBO-JUMBO THAT WE ALL HAVE TO ABIDE BY
You will not upload, post, transmit, transfer, disseminate, distribute or facilitate the distribution of any content including text, images, sound, data, information or software that:
1. Incites, advocates or expresses pornography, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity, hatred, bigotry, racism, insults or gratuitous violence.
2. Misrepresents the source of anything you post including impersonation of another individual or identity. This includes the use of exclusive jasoncastromusic.com pictures without written permission on any other website or forum. In most cases, we'd be more than happy to share, but please have the courtesy to ask.
3. Provides or creates links to external sites that violate this code of conduct.
4. Is intended to harm or exploit minors in anyway.
5. Invades anyone’s privacy by attempting to harvest, collect, store or publish private or personally identifiable information such as passwords, account information, credit card numbers, addresses or other contact information without their consent.
6. Intends to harm or disrupt another user’s computer or would allow others to illegally access software or bypass security on Websites or servers including but not limited to spamming.
7. Is intended to threaten, stalk, defame, defraud, degrade, victimize, embarrass, hurt or intimidate an individual or group of individuals for any reason.
*These boards are not to be used to promote any other organization, fansite, company or business. Posts made with this intention can be immediately removed without warning or notice by the moderating staff.
~~~~~~~~~
Whew - Glad that's out of the way. Have fun, everyone!
Your jasoncastromusic.com Management Staff
This forum is open to fans as young as 13. Please don't use profanity, including abbreviations or deliberate misspellings of explicit language. Please don't use racist or sexist remarks, discuss adult themes, or post or link to offensive or vulgar material.
PLEASE RESPECT JASON, HIS FAMILY AND HIS FRIENDS
Please respect the privacy of Jason, his family and friends. Discussion, analysis or speculation about their personal lives can't be allowed here. Jason gives us a lot. Let him keep some things to himself.
Please remember that Jason's family or friends will be members of this forum. We ask that you respect their time while they're here and also ask that members refrain from PM-ing them. If you need to get information to them our admins, Kali and Sunshine, can contact them.
PLEASE RESPECT OTHER FORUM MEMBERS
Respect others' views even if you disagree with them. We each have the right to our own opinions and the right to respectfully state what those opinions are. Discussion and debate are welcome and encouraged, but please remember that disagreeing with and disliking an idea doesn't require that you dislike the person.
Sometimes people can write something that you may find offensive. Please consider that the person may not have intended to cause offense. It's very easy to misinterpret a post on forums, because there's no tone of voice or body language to help you decide what the intent is.
PLEASE RESPECT THE STAFF
They try to please everyone they can, but in the end, they're charged with making this community as enjoyable for as many people as they possibly can. They can not always be right, nor can they please everyone with the decisions made, but they're doing their "jobs" and hopefully we can all agree that they're doing their best to ensure a great community here.
Please be respectful in both the forums and any private communications with moderators. Moderators are volunteers that donate many, many hours of their own time to help in the forum.
If you feel that an egregious oversight has been made, then privately mail the moderator group. Do not post complaints on the forum.
PLEASE RESPECT OTHER JASON CASTRO FORUMS
Jason and his family want JasonCastroMusic to be a place where fans from all the Jason Forums can gather on common ground The Castros reached out to members of Castrocopia, DaydreamingBoy, IdolForums, JasonCastroOnline, Jason's Goth Girls, the official AI site and to international fans in building this site and it's important to them that everyone feel welcome here. Please be respectful of the other sites and their members on this forum.
PERSONAL DISPUTES
Please do not use these forums for personal disputes, heated debates, flame wars etc. Treat each other with respect in the forums and take any personal disputes to a private discussion off the board. If you should find that your discussion is becoming too heated or someone is becoming far too passionate about their argument, try stepping away from the discussion.
Please do not use the PM (Private Messages) system of this forum to carry on personal attacks, disputes or to tell another member how to post. This is considered the same as attacking and fighting on the open boards and you could lose your PM privileges for violations. If you receive a PM of this nature, please forward it to a moderator.
FUNDRAISING
Fundraising and group gifts for anything but charitable organizations is not allowed on this forum.
THE TOPIC OF TOPICS
Please try to keep to the topic of the thread. If you want to raise a new issue then consider whether a new topic is more appropriate.
Please look around to see if someone has already posted a thread for the topic you want to discuss. We can't merge threads here, so duplicate topics will have to be closed or deleted. You will receive a PM if your thread is deleted and we hope that you won't take it personally. We're just trying to keep Jason's forum organized for him and for you.
Please don't post the same topic or message in multiple threads across the board. We've tried to make a place for everything and readers will find your thread when they get to that area of the forum.
When posting a new topic, please make sure your subject is descriptive, so the other members understand what your topic is about. "Yay!" or "Has anyone seen this?" are vague, but "Yay! Jason's CD just went platinum!!" or "Has anyone seen this interview from DallasMusic.com?" will bring readers to your thread.
PLEASE CONSIDER THE READABILITY OF YOUR POST
Multi-nested quotes are hard on the eyes and difficult to read. When quoting please select just the last person you're responding to.
Please don't repeatedly quote a picture or graphic on the same page. Multiple graphics may cause the page to load slowly for everyone, so please don't quote a picture on the same page on which it was posted.
POSTING PHOTOS/GRAPHICS
Please feel free to share your photos. We do require that if you are not the person who took the picture, that you credit the photog and the site/forum/place where you found the pic when posting. If you don't...it will be removed.
We also require that you stay within the size limits we request on the forum. Pictures may not be bigger than 550 X 329. If they are, you will be asked to resize them. We require the size guidelines to be followed to help keep the forum loading quickly. Too many large pictures slow the forum down ALOT.
Graphics in signatures can be a maximum of 150 pixels high.
PLEASE IGNORE THE TROLLS
What is a troll? It's a person who posts something which is bound to stir people up and then sits back and watches as dozens of people jump in and start arguing. Sometimes trolls get their friends to join in or post under different names. Generally they will do anything it takes to get attention. Maybe they just need a little love.
If you see a message like this, please try to refrain from replying and report it privately to a moderator.
PLEASE RESPECT THE FIRE
Stay away from it!
When you want to make a point, please do not resort to flaming. Flaming is the practice of attacking another person or group of people on a personal level. Name-calling, assuming character flaws, belittling, and nasty comments are all considered flaming. Remember not to post “flame-bait." Flame-bait is a statement that, in the context of a discussion, is intended to illicit an inflammatory response. Remember that people are more likely to receive your message when it is sent with love and respect.
THE JOB OF THE MODS
We want everyone to have a pleasant experience on Jason's forum, but sometimes we have to be the bad guy. We don't like it, but it comes with the job.
Please know that the moderating staff may have to edit/modify any posting/message in order to keep the boards organized and peaceful. This includes duplicate postings containing the same information, duplicate threads and fixing broken or inaccurate links if we cannot reach you to make the correction yourself. In most cases, we will notify you privately of the modification.
If a member "crosses the line" one too many times, the moderating staff will issue the user a private warning. Further action will be have to be taken if the warning is ignored. This can be anything from locking the offending user account, to deletion and banning of the user. Action is generally on a case by case basis.
Please report any trouble and/or genuine concerns by private message to any of the moderators. They are here to listen and act quickly should a problem or an issue arise. Thanks.
LEGAL MUMBO-JUMBO THAT WE ALL HAVE TO ABIDE BY
You will not upload, post, transmit, transfer, disseminate, distribute or facilitate the distribution of any content including text, images, sound, data, information or software that:
1. Incites, advocates or expresses pornography, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity, hatred, bigotry, racism, insults or gratuitous violence.
2. Misrepresents the source of anything you post including impersonation of another individual or identity. This includes the use of exclusive jasoncastromusic.com pictures without written permission on any other website or forum. In most cases, we'd be more than happy to share, but please have the courtesy to ask.
3. Provides or creates links to external sites that violate this code of conduct.
4. Is intended to harm or exploit minors in anyway.
5. Invades anyone’s privacy by attempting to harvest, collect, store or publish private or personally identifiable information such as passwords, account information, credit card numbers, addresses or other contact information without their consent.
6. Intends to harm or disrupt another user’s computer or would allow others to illegally access software or bypass security on Websites or servers including but not limited to spamming.
7. Is intended to threaten, stalk, defame, defraud, degrade, victimize, embarrass, hurt or intimidate an individual or group of individuals for any reason.
*These boards are not to be used to promote any other organization, fansite, company or business. Posts made with this intention can be immediately removed without warning or notice by the moderating staff.
~~~~~~~~~
Whew - Glad that's out of the way. Have fun, everyone!
Your jasoncastromusic.com Management Staff