Global Pagans Online -- Rules for Registration
***Please take the time to read these nine rules, as you are agreeing to them, and it will avoid confusion for your future visits here!
Upon registering, you agree to understanding and to a willingness to abide by the following nine rules based on members' responsibilities, as well as required conduct, on all site-related functions:
1. This site was created for the sharing, learning & enjoyment of its members, therefore no flaming (personal attacks), trolling (looking for members to attack), delurking in topics specifically to attack (especially in some belief of justification due to perceived baiting), spamming or soliciting, and/or outting personal information you have about users that they have not publicly provided on this site. In addition, no pontificating or proselytizing will be acceptable on our boards, through our PM system, or in our chatspaces. These actions will result in warning &/or banning of the offending member from all GPO member privileges. Though we do support the enterprises of others on our site, this is an ad-free webspace, and only participating members who are genuinely engaging regularly with the community on our variety of forums may promote their ventures—as we are not here to be solicited. If you have been shown to be a participating member of GPO, then you may use your profile's Website field to share the URL of any webspace you wish to promote. Please do not create ads in your signature spaces. All told, should you believe there's an issue to be addressed on site, then contact the Administrator.
2. Members agree to explore and learn the site's layout to ensure the best placement of their posts on GPO. The administrator has made every effort to ensure a spot exists for any possible discussion, so please return that courtesy. In addition, all new topics require you fill in the Subject field. Please capitalize your titles in that field, thanks!
3. Members agree to keep a valid e-mail address in their profile, and understand that if they lose their password, and request a reset, the email for the new password will go to the addy they have updated to in their profile, therefore not the one offered on registration necessarily. You may subscribe to track individual topics, and you will receive one or two mailings a year to keep you abreast of our site activities -- do *not* hit SPAM instead of DELETE, as you are harming others who wish to use our mailer service. If you do not wish to receive these subscriptions, take the time you did to hit subscribe, and hit unsubscribe. Take personal responsibility for your actions. If you do not wish to receive our one or two mass mailings, contact the adminstrator. I cannot guarantee that members will not email you if you set your email to visible in your profile, so know when you join the community, you have the power to control your settings!
4. Members agree to using the same username in both the forum *and* the other site functions, even if they must remove spaces or add underscores to register successfully—which is required for our chat & ritual spaces! All usernames are to be personal handles, not the name of a business, site, organization or group.
5. Members are not guaranteed their accounts will remain active or present on site, and may find their accounts are not accessible if they have not contributed posts for over 30 days, or entered at least five posts in their first 15 days after registration. A community is created by contribution, and we respect those who make that effort! In addition, please note that members cannot delete their own accounts, and agree to create only one account for themselves.
6. Members are to post their own material, and are to respect copyright rules for posting other materials onto this site—remembering to include credits & links where applicable. Note that posting of illegal materials or links to such is banned, and that graphic images and/or explicit language will be moderated for content purposes, so discretion is subjective with warning & possible account deletion or censure of members within GPO site functions. Please note in our BBCode help page, that all linkage is to be *named* when offered, thanks!
7. Members will find a subforum with the Site Rules in our GPO Guide forum that they must keep abreast of due to possible edits from growth in the community. Our GPO Guide with general site information is found on the Forums page, and members agree to review that material before posting inquiries or contacting the administrator for assistance on site. Thank you!
8. Members understand that there is always the possibility of failure to upload to the server, and that the administrator recommends selecting & copying any text for posting *before* submission in order to attempt resubmission due to any failures. The reality is that the administrator has never encountered this issue, but due diligence is best!
9. Be aware that registration e-mails will be forwarded to inboxes within 15 minutes (or less usually) but may land in spam or junk folders—please be patient! We do *not* recommend the use of Yahoo & Hotmail addresses, as they are notoriously terrible at blocking their members' incoming mail, and you may never receive your password for this site. Should that happen, contact the administrator by email or post in our Guest Inquiries board on site. Members agree to give a minimum of 24 hours before attempting to register on site again under a different username & email. Should they have to do so, then they must contact the administrator once on site, so she may delete the first (failed account) and address this registration issue.
WELCOME TO GPO!
There is an Introductions subforum in our Coven Board where members make their first post to introduce themselves,
and the administrator would appreciate your intro now!
ENJOY!!