Unexplained Mysteries :: Chat Room Terms and Conditions

Chat Room Terms and Conditions

By registering or participating in the Unexplained Mysteries chat rooms you accept and agree to the following terms and conditions. Our goal is to provide a high quality chat environment for our visitors, these terms are in place to prevent disruption and maintain a safe and friendly chat room service.

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1. No spamming

Chat room spam includes any of the following:

1a. Advertising: Do not advertise or promote other web sites, books, products, media releases or services.

1b. Recruitment: Do not recruit site visitors in to joining other web sites, forums or groups, request participation in surveys, petitions, contests, protests, political campaigns, fund raisers or money making schemes.

1c. Room "flooding": Do not "flood" the chat room. Flooding involves disrupting the room for other participants by intentionally filling up the screen with text, emoticons, sounds or anything else which detracts from the ability of others to hold a conversation.

2. Chat content

Please read and understand the following before using the chat:

2a. Offensive material: Do not write comments containing crude sexual references, innuendo or that refer to or imply violence either in general or towards other chat users. Do not post links to material containing pornography, gore, excessive violence, sexually explicit content, images of death or other overly graphic material. Remember that we have visitors of all ages, comments should be as 'family friendly' as possible.

2b. Illegal material: References to taking, buying, growing or selling drugs, the promotion or use of weapons, plans to or descriptions of participation in hacking, downloading pirated material or other criminal acts are strictly disallowed.

2c. Private content: Do not copy and paste the content of private messages, e-mails or the personal contact details of other members. This also applies to the contact details, e-mails etc. of non-members and to other offline correspondences. The content of private correspondences sent by site visitors or members of staff via private messenger or through e-mail are copyrighted to the sender and should not be reproduced, published or distributed outside of this web site through any means without prior written permission from the copyright holder.

2d. Language: As this is an English speaking site we ask that our members write only in English. Mobile phone shorthand, fictional languages and "leetspeak" are disallowed.

2e. Medical advice: Do not use the chat room to request or give out medical advice, if you have any concerns over your health you should always seek the advice of your doctor.

2f. Preaching: Do not promote or push your beliefs on to others, we have visitors from all over the world of many different faiths and we ask that all beliefs be respected. Similarly, do not use the room to push an agenda or to 'educate' others on your own views or ideas, we ask that users be allowed to make up their own minds on what to or not to believe.

2g. Plagiarism: Do not copy and paste other people's material in to the chat room and pass it off as your own words, if you are quoting from an external source always specify where it originated.

3. Behaviour

Any of the following constitutes unacceptable behaviour:

3a. Racism or hatred: Do not write racist or hate-driven comments or views which express hatred towards or discriminate against any specific race, religion, country, gender, individual or group.

3b. Harassment: Do not harrass, defame, threaten, bully or victimise other members.

3c. Profanity: Do not use profanity, crude, vulgar language or attempt to intentionally bypass the profanity filter.

3d. Abusive behaviour: Do not be rude, insulting, offensive, snide, obnoxious or abusive towards other members. Do not make deliberately inflammatory comments or 'bait' other members in to making reciprocal attacks.

3e. Suggestive behaviour: Do not write sexually suggestive comments, innuendo or engage in inapropriate sexually oriented personal exchanges or harassment; purely personal correspondences should always be kept private. First and foremost this site is intended for discussion on topical subjects, the services provided should not be used as a means with which to seek out or pursue intimate relationships; bringing up personal relationships, disputes or engaging in competitive, possessive, disruptive or inapropriate behaviour in that regard is disallowed.

3f. Chat room groups/gangs: The formation or promotion of organised groups, clans or gangs is disallowed, as are organised attempts to harrass other members, disrupt discussions or enforce a certain viewpoint in any way that prevents fair and unbiased discussion.

3g. Role-playing: Do not use the chat room to 'role-play' as a fictitious character or supernatural entity.

4. Etiquette

In the interests of maintaining a friendly chat environment, please avoid the following:

4a. Use the correct room: Please use the appropriate room depending on what you want to talk about e.g. if you are looking to chat about non-paranormal related topics please use the off-topic room and not the topical room. If you use the incorrect room a chat moderator may ask you to move to a room to which that subject is better suited.

4b. Shouting: Do not write in all uppercase letters, writing in this manner is considered "shouting" and makes what you are saying difficult to read as well as looking unsightly and being annoying to other users.

4c. Spelling and grammar: Do not criticise other users on their spelling, grammar or punctuation.

5. Moderator action

The Unexplained Mysteries chat room is a privately owned service and as such we reserve the right to deny access to or take any action necessary against anyone whose behaviour we deem to be inappropriate, offensive or intentionally disruptive.

By using the chat room service you agree to the following:

5a. Compliance: You agree to co-operate with the requests of our site staff should you be asked to stop doing something that they deem to be disruptive, inappropriate or in violation of the terms of service.

5b. Protest: You agree not to attack, harrass, threaten or become abusive towards any member of staff. Members who become offensive or participate in harassing, threatening or retaliatory action against the site or a member of staff will be subject to further action. All our moderators are volunteers who give up their own free time to keep the site a safe and friendly place, please treat them with the respect that they deserve.

5c. Appeal: If you disagree with action taken against your account by a member of staff you can appeal the decision by contacting either the member of staff who took said action or an administrator privately via e-mail or through our private message system. Please do not use chat room to criticise or complain about moderator actions, to discuss member bans or to start a petition or protest against any action that has been taken.

5d. Access: If your access or posting rights have been revoked, do not register more accounts in order to circumvent this restriction or have another member post or deliver messages on your behalf. Accounts that we find belong to previously banned members will also be banned.

Unexplained Mysteries reserves the right to change or add to these terms and conditions at any time without prior notice, and in any situation the decision of an Administrator is final.

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