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Forum Conduct
You agree, through your use of this forum, that you will not post any material
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unless you own the copyright or you have written consent from the owner of the
copyrighted material. Spam, flooding, advertisements, chain letters, pyramid
schemes, and solicitations are also forbidden on this forum.
Note that it is impossible for the staff or the owners of this forum to confirm
the validity of posts. Please remember that we do not actively monitor the
posted messages, and as such, are not responsible for the content contained
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not necessarily the views of this forum, its staff, its subsidiaries, or this
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The staff and the owner of this forum reserve the right to remove objectionable
content, within a reasonable time frame, if they determine that removal is
necessary. This is a manual process, however, please realize that they may not
be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately. This policy applies
to member profile information as well.
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any related websites to this forum, its staff, and its subsidiaries. The owners
of this forum also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or any other
related information collected on this service) in the event of a formal
complaint or legal action arising from any situation caused by your use of this
forum.
You have the ability, as you register, to choose your username. We advise that
you keep the name appropriate. With this user account you are about to register,
you agree to never give your password out to another person except an
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NEVER use another person's account for any reason. We also HIGHLY recommend you
use a complex and unique password for your account, to prevent account theft.
After you register and login to this forum, you will be able to fill out a
detailed profile. It is your responsibility to present clean and accurate
information. Any information the forum owner or staff determines to be
inaccurate or vulgar in nature will be removed, with or without prior notice.
Appropriate sanctions may be applicable.
Please note that with each post, your IP address is recorded, in the event that
you need to be banned from this forum or your ISP contacted. This will only
happen in the event of a major violation of this agreement. Also note that the
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you logged in/out. The software does not collect or send any other form of
information to your computer.
BCFR has many rules that have to be followed or risk disciplinary action. Please
read them carefully so you understand them thoroughly as the staff and the owner
of this forum reserve the right to ban members, if they determine that a ban is
necessary. BCFR is privately owned, operated and funded. We reserve the right to
refuse membership to anyone and/or to terminate an account at any time. Just act
like a reasonable adult and everybody will have a good time.
BCFR Forum Rules
Please read the rules thoroughly, all members need to know and follow
then to avoid disciplinary actions and to make this community enjoyable for all.
When using the BCFR website, you agree by joining and participating in this
forum that you acknowledge having read and agree to abide by the following
rules:
1. Post padding - New members Please Read: We have had some
members signing up for a membership, then posting fluff to get to 20 posts. We
and the members are always patrolling this and if you decide to pad your post
count in the manor, your fluff will be removed without notification. If post
padding continues, you will receive a 10 day ban. This is a member participation
website and if you do not intend on contributing, please do not register.
2. Usage of foul or degrading language or posting of obscene or sexually
explicit material will not be tolerated.
3. There will be no promotion of any website or business; ie, sales,
marketing, business, etc unless approved my admin or moderators, period!
External links in posts will or may be removed at the sole discretion of BCFR
and its moderators. These rules also apply to members signaturs and profiles.
4. Solicitation of donations to any group is prohibited without
permission from BCFR Admin.
5. Generalizations regarding any specific race, color, creed or
nationality: When discussing sensitive topics, as there can be many regarding
our fisheries, understand that although some criticism of individual interest
groups is acceptable, generalizing about any particular race, color, creed or
nationality in a negative manner is absolutely not acceptable. Although in all
of the interest groups that partake in our fisheries there will be specific
individuals who might fish illegally, unethically or irresponsibly, we will not
allow generalizations that portray entire interest groups in a negative,
demeaning or derogatory manner based on the actions of a minority within that
group. Such statements are inflammatory and irresponsible and will not be
allowed on the BCFR forum.
6. Usage of the forum to verbally attack, insult, slander, slur, degrade,
defame, threaten or make sexist remarks to any individual will not be tolerated.
BCFR members agree to keep content tactful, civil and respectful.
7. Respecting the Moderators, if you have a concern, issue, question or a
suggestion please do this in a respectful avenue, discussion over private
message only. Myself and the moderators will be enforcing this and again, it
will be done in a respectful matter. All members, if you feel someone has
violated this rule please contact one of the moderators through PM ASAP. Also
this goes both ways, the moderators are not immune from this rule.
8. Reproduction of content from other forums, copyrighted materials,
usage of other peoples pictures without their consent from any organization
other than BCFR is not allowed. Forum members are expected to use original
content.
9. Posts that create a negative impression of the angling community or a
negative image will be edited or deleted at the discretion of the
Admin/Moderators. Please remember that in some forums, your threads/posts can be
viewed and copied by anyone.
10. Posts containing content of illegal activities can, at BCFR’s
discretion, be referred to appropriate law enforcement or Department of
Fisheries, along with information about members allegedly involvement in illegal
activities.
11. Replying to a thread: When you are replying to a thread be sure to
keep it with in the topic title. If you have information, tips or something
associated to that topic then we want to listen. If you reply to a thread with
information that is not associated with the topic, this is called "High Jacking
a thread". When this happens, the original thread gets off track and the person
that originally posted the topic gets information he wasn't looking for! This
rule is strictly enforced! If you feel a member has High Jacked your thread
please report it to a moderator!
12. Posts of a political nature are prohibited unless the content has to
do with issues specifically pertaining to the Fisheries and Oceans. Forum
members may engage in civil discussion and debate about such issues. The thread
will be closed by the Moderator if, at any time, the discussion ceases to be
civil.
Failure to comply to the rules and policies of the BCFR Forum can result in, at
the discretion of the Admin/Moderator, a complete ban to the offending member or
members from future forum participation in our community. BCFR reserves the
right to act in the best interest of the site outside of and including the rules
of the site at any given time.
Fishing Report Posting Rules
1. Posting a Fishing Report: First off, please start your report with the
date. Some of you might have noticed the mods change the topic by adding the
date to you report already and with new report posting rules we are hoping this
will change. Start your fishing report with a "April 22, 2008 - your title
here" Very simple and easy to follow. Now, if a couple days later you are
reading this report and you had just fished in the same location, please start
your own report in a new thread. It much easier to read and to find.
2. Take the time to read the title: If a poster starts a topic, please
respect the title and don't hijack the thread. If you aren't sure of what you
have to add to the topic, please start a new topic.
3. Any member replying to a report with intentions of shaming them or intending to bully them for posting a report will receive a immediate 7 day ban. If this behaviour continues, you will be removed from BCFR, without hesitation.
4. Poster Respect: When a member posts a fishing report and doesn't
disclose its location; lure, bait choice, colour or other details, show some
respect to the poster, don't try to be the hero and guess these things in the
thread. If original poster wanted to tell everyone the details, they would have
in the original post. If you want to ask the person explicit details, send
him/her a private message, PM! Do not ask the poster in the thread! This also
applies to photo's asking member for photo's will have the same consequence!
5 Posting Pictures: If you want to post pictures of your fish, we
encourage it but if you don't want people see where you caught it, then either
post pictures that exclude the scenery, a picture that contains just the fish or
otherwise don't post them? Pictures with the background whited out look
ridiculous and we would rather read a report with no pictures, than see that!
Failure to comply to the fishing report rules and policies can result in
immediate disciplinary action at the discretion of the Administration/Moderator
team. BCFR reserves the right to act in the best interest of the site outside of
and including the rules of the site at any given time.
