News and Announcements
First and foremost, welcome to the Chicago Healers online community! We have been hard at work trying to make our community area the best it can be. In this spirit, we always appreciate feedback, and encourage our users to voice any questions, comments or concerns they might have. Before getting started on our forums, please take into consideration the following guidelines.
General Rules:
* While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters.
* Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.
* Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.
* Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum email and Private message system to spam other members.
* We also do not allow posts that are obscene or of inappropriate nature or that violate Chicago Healer Community standards. The Chicago Healer Community team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.
* Discussion of illegal activities are not allowed.
* Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
* While we are quite happy to have constructive comparative conversations about practicioners, services, and experiences, blatant "bashing" or "flaming" will not be tolerated. * We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
* If you are going to post non-English on these forums, please also post an English Translation of your post.
* Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.
* You cannot post any affiliate or referral links, or post anything asking for a referral without approval of Chicago Healers. Such posts will be subject to removal. * You cannot post advertisements or notices for contests without prior approval.
* We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules, as access to our forums are a privilege and not a right. Any threads/posts of these types will be deleted. Advertising Services We DO NOT allow unauthorized people to post threads or to send private messages or emails to users here that advertise or solicit any products or services. Explicit advertising and solicitating in signatures is also prohibited.
Links in Sigs Links in signatures must follow these guidelines:
* Linking to a commercial product/service is fine, provided it is not a product or service that competes with a product or service offered by Chicago Healers.
* Promotional text for a commercial product or service is ok, provided there are no price(s) of product(s) or service(s) listed.
* A link and promotional text for a site that is not commercial and does not contain product(s) and/or service(s) is allowed, provided the site is not sexual or does not violate vBulletin community standards. The vBulletin team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards. (Examples include sites about drugs and/or sex.)
* Duplicate links to the same URL in a sig are not allowed. Avatars Animated avatars are not allowed. Sorry. Avatars that may be confused with official staff avatars are not allowed. Signature Size Limits All signatures should not exceed the following size limits, and you can't have both text and images
* For text signatures: 4 lines normal size, 8 lines small size and up to 90 chars per line. Font sizes above 2 are not allowed. (Blank lines count as lines.)
* Do not use images with large text to bypass the previous item
* For images in signatures: 1 image up to 300 pixels wide, 125 pixels tall and 20k in size
* Animated images in sigs are not allowed
We appreciate the time and interest you've taken into the Chicago Healers Online Community. We hope that with your help we can build an exciting and rewarding experience! Best Regards, The Chicago Healers Team