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lcashman
05-04-2010, 05:22 PM
Welcome To BNARC!!!


On behalf of BNARC, we are proud to welcome you as our sponsor! Your choice to sponsor BNARC will increase your exposure to the reef enthusiasts in our community.

The following is a list of rules that we have created to help the sponsorship experience function more smoothly. We feel that they will help foster a harmonious element on the club board by averting any potential issues between sponsors. We will be posting these rules in each sponsor forum. Please read through them and feel free to contact any of our board members should you have questions. Thank you!!

1. Sponsors are prohibited from posting in other sponsor’s forums unless invited by that sponsor.
2. No sponsor (even if they are also a member) may reference other sponsors in a negative manner in any forum. Insinuations about other sponsors are also prohibited. This means that a sponsor cannot imply something about another sponsor, while not mentioning their name specifically.
3. No trolling will be tolerated. This includes creating a false user name on the board and posting in other sponsor’s forums under the false user name.
4. We would like to communicate that no member of BNARC may go into a sponsor’s forum and post derogatory or inflammatory remarks about another sponsor. This will be communicated to the membership in an upcoming sticky post.

Do not post anything that is harmful, hateful, defamatory, threatening, vulgar, abusive, harassing, obscene, profane, unlawful, racial, ethnical or otherwise objectionable, including religious or political matter.

Posting content which violates this will be subject to the following penalties:
1st offense- Post change with public warning and PM notifying poster of the offense.
2nd offense- Post change with public warning and 5 day suspension from posting.
3rd offense- Post change with public warning and 1 year suspension from posting.

You may use your own forum in many exiting ways. You can talk about current and upcoming sales, advertise prices and specials, discuss livestock arrivals and orders, and also answer questions about products and livestock that you carry. You can ask questions about what members would like for you to stock, or how they feel about your business. We encourage members to work out any issues that they may have with you in private, but be aware that members *are* allowed to discuss negative experiences. This is all part of having an interactive forum.

Again, if you have any questions, please feel free to contact any of the club board members. Thank you!!

The Bloomington-Normal Area Reef Club Staff