Forum and Comments Terms of Reference

Forum Posts & Comments

General Rules

Healthy debate and discussion is encouraged but it is your responsibility, as a member, to ensure all your comments and contributions to the forum or comments sections are respectful, appropriate, relevant, legal and accessible. The rules below apply to all contributions in all areas of the PPBSO website. If any posts or comments causes you concern, please alert us to it, by reporting it.

We have a “one account per person” policy, and your full name will be visible with your posts. It is expected that parents or guardians will supervise the use by members under 16 years of age.

Please note, the forum and comments can be viewed by the general public but posting and commenting is restricted to current PPBSO members only.

Members should ensure they are fully aware of the PPBSO Code of Conduct before participating on the forum or comments areas.

Respectful

We aim to create a friendly environment for all members, where individuals respect each other. Please ensure your contributions comply with this. Any disrespect towards any member, band, judge or official or organizer will not be tolerated.

Do not post information that may lead to the personal details of any individual being identified without their permission.

Do not post material which could provoke, or in any way discriminate against, any person or group of persons.

Do not share Conversations (privileged or private messages) on the forum without permission from the sender, if in doubt, don't post. If you are concerned about a post or comment, use the report button.

When copying others' material, you must credit the publication, website, photographer, artist or author as applicable. You should use only what is necessary and reasonable for your post.

Appropriate

Please ensure your contributions are suitable for the wide age range we have as forum members. We have a duty to ensure that inappropriate material has no place on this forum, and that content remains family friendly.

Please ensure your contributions are, to the best of your knowledge, accurate and not misleading.

With the exception of our confirmed advertising sponsors, if you wish to advertise, promote or fundraise on the forum, you must first obtain permission by contacting us.

We have difficult moderation judgements to make and we appreciate not everyone will agree with our decisions. Please do not discuss moderator actions and decisions publicly on the forum. If you have any concerns, please contact us privately.

Moderation decisions may result in us reviewing, editing or removing any contribution at any time. On occasions where we remove content from the forum, this must not be re-published.

The forum is not intended as a complaint or appeal process and members must follow the laid-out rules and procedures for making official complaints.

Relevant

Threads, posts and comments should be relevant to piping, drumming, pipe bands, music, events or any other aspect of our art. Any posts in relation to politics, religion or any other subject not related to piping & drumming will be removed and the contributors access privileges may be removed.

The Marketplace forum is intended for items related to piping and drumming only.

New threads should be given appropriate, descriptive titles and subsequent posts should remain relevant to the original topic.

You should ensure that your contribution is constructive and addresses, as far as is reasonable, the questions or topic being discussed.

If referring to an external text-based source, you should put a suitable section of the text in QUOTE tags and provide, as appropriate, details of the source and a relevant comment to promote discussion.

If posting or referring to an image, video or audio, please provide, as appropriate: a brief summary or description; details of the source; and a relevant comment to promote discussion.

Legal

Your contributions must not defame any person or organisation.

Your contributions must be consistent with relevant conditions, laws, regulations and by-laws.

Accessible

All contributions should be readable, understandable and accessible and in either English or French. You should use the forum's default font and formatting, unless appropriate to aid clarity. Additionally, you should make reasonable efforts to use correct spelling, punctuation and grammar in all your contributions.

When replying to other members' posts, place only the relevant section of their post within QUOTE tags, and make your response underneath.

Please remember, many members may not understand “jargon” (including acronyms, codes and specialist terms). Such terms should be correctly defined the first time they are used in a thread; codes and abbreviations must not be made up.

Please respect others' bandwidth; many members use mobile devices and/or have limited data allowance.

Please contact us for further information or concerns.