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Forum Posting Guidelines - please read before posting
« on: May 17, 2009, 07:13:14 PM »
The forum posting guidelines are designed to help make this forum a place of friendly interaction, healthy discussion and witty banter, while allowing helpful consumer-to-consumer information to be given with respect to online trading on eBay and elsewhere.

We expect members to avoid profanity or defamation. We also expect members not to post inappropriate things such as pornography, private information or links to inappropriate sites. If you post communications received by you from a third party, this may contravene both the Privacy Act and the User Agreement of this forum.

              Exceptions are communications sent without expectation of confidentiality, "mail-out" emails sent en masse to a large number of people, spam emails, replies to complaints (such as may be received from eBay or PayPal or other online shops or venues or providers) unless the replies are sent with the expectation of confidentiality, or communications where both the sender and recipient have agreed to disclosure (and where the communication does not contain confidential third-party communications).

You may disagree with members here - we ask you to keep disagreements to a minimum and to avoid being so rude that your posts need to be moderated.

If you experience problems with the forum, please message any of the admin team to report the problem.

Please do not post here only to bait, troll, criticise, or to act as a malcontent or agent provocateur. The well-being of the community is of pivotal concern for the Admin/Mod Team. If any of the admin team deem that your posting has this as its main or only purpose, your membership privileges may be revoked at the discretion of the admin team.

Please respect the forum profanity filters; if you attempt to circumvent them, you will be moderated.

If you post an infraction, you will generally have the opportunity to edit your own post before it is moderated, unless your infraction requires immediate moderating.

Discussions of moderations or administration decisions will be removed. All administrative decisions are final.

You CAN mention eBay here, as well as Oztion, Trading Post, Grays Online, etc. This isn't an advertising site, but if you need help or have to discuss something in relation to online trading, you can mention it.

Below is the Registration Agreement to which you agreed upon becoming a member.

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2.   The nature of the OzRoundTable allows for your comments to be edited by administrators and built upon by others within the Forum.  

3.   Your contributions will be read by other persons.  You are solely responsible for your contributions and the consequences of making them.  You also acknowledge that OzRoundTable is not responsible for your contributions or the contributions of other persons, and does not endorse them.  

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5.   Your contributions may be removed from the OzRoundTable at any time in its absolute discretion.

6.   You agree to abide by relevant posting rules within the OzRoundTable, specifically:-
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(i)   You must not use The OzRoundTable environment to attempt to gain unauthorised access to other systems.
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