Updated Rules & Guidelines (November, 26th, 2007)

- We decided to increase the min. no of posts required to post images and urls in all forums to 50 posts. We noticed that some people join to promote their websites/businesses only,

which is against our guidelines.

- Maximum lines allowed in the signature has been reduced to 1 line. Short, descriptive signatures can do the job.

- Your signature remains hidden unless you have 50 posts.

- We noticed that many people join the community for only posting their businesses, promoting links,...etc. Neither we, nor the members of the business forum appreciate self promotion. That has come to an end now. We will consider it part of "spamming". We will warn you first, and ban the second time.
- The Business & Finance Market Area is our marketplace. This forum is dedicated to promote/selling your products or services. We would like to reserve the rights to post in those forums for our active and participating members.

- We now have new moderators, poonam & harrisguide. If you have any questions, contact them or contact me.

Rules & Guidelines (Last Updated: November 7th, 2007)

Overall Board Attitude & Rules at BusinessForum.net

• Keep in mind that BusinessForum.net is a professional Business community.
• The objective of BF is to share, help and support each other.
• Always display a positive and friendly attitude. Be respectful of others' opinions
• Allow your fellow members to voice their opinions WITHOUT CENSORSHIP
• DO NOT deliberately start arguments. Debates are great, as long as they remain respectful!
• Always try to "give" back to our community. For each time you find help or answers here at BusinessForum.net, try to help someone else out in return.
• You may find that what goes around comes around...
• Give people a little time to respond to your requests. There's a lot going on in these forums and it may take a little time for people to notice and respond to your request.
• Please be patient.DO NOT just make a negative statement and leave the person hanging out to dry.
• Although you may consider yourself to be an "expert" now, try to remember that we were all new and learning once upon a time. Take it easy on your fellow members!
• Do NOT make threats or implied threats towards other members -- even if you think it's fun.
• Do not post email addresses in the threads/posts.

Inappropriate Behavior

• DO NOT Make Inappropriate or Offensive Posts - including threats, harrassment, swearing, prejudice, slander or deliberate insults/name-calling, or other negative remarks about BusinessForum.net, its moderators and administrators, iEntry, or any member of the forum. Even if this is just your own personal opinion, RESPECT the members.
• Do NOT drag another member's personal site into a forum discussion unless the discussion directly involves that site OR if the member brings his or her own site into the discussion first. There's no point in ruining a good debate by accidentally (or intentionally) offending someone with a personal comment.
• BusinessForum.net believes in integrity and respects what other forums have to offer. Because we realize members of BusinessForum.net may also be members of other forums, do not try to degrade or discredit other forums, their administrators and moderators, or their members. This includes slander and other offensive comments.
• DO NOT POST PORN or adult content. This also inludes sites promoting activities such as drug abuse, gambling and links to sites containing such content.
• Non-pornographic adult related material (such as lingerie) is allowed (for the purpose of business discussions), as long as you provide a warning in your post, such as:"WARNING: Site contains adult content that may be unsuitable for some individuals."
• Even though this is an international forum, please make sure that your posts are written in English.
  We want BusinessForum.net to be open to people of all ages, genders, races, and sexualities, so any inappropriate or offensive posts will be deleted.
• Please DO NOT embed cookies in your posts in the BusinessForum.net forums.

Forum Abuse Policy:

• 1st Offense - A polite Private Message from a Moderator pointing out the Forum Rules, in addition to the editing or deletion of the post.
• 2nd Offense - Moderators will discuss and possibly delete the user from the BusinessForum.net forum.

Private Message and Email Abuse Policy:

• DO NOT use BusinessForum.net as a basis for spamming or scamming our members.
• We take PM/email abuse very seriously, and it will result in the immediate removal of your membership and ban of your IP address, without warning.

Our Spam Policy

• Please make sure that you are posting for the good of the community, not just for the sake of self-promotion. Please refrain from posting affiliate links and press releases in our forums.
• Surveys are not allowed, unless you have been given permission in advance from a Site Admin.
• Do NOT use the BusinessForum.net community for the purpose of 'spam' or excessive advertisements! This includes forum posts, private messages, or emails to other BusinessForum.net members. Our moderators reserve the right to edit or delete any posts they consider to be 'spam'
• If we find that you are spamming our community, you will be warned by a Moderator or Site Admin, and it may lead to the deletion of your posts and/or the removal of your
  
  BusinessForum.net account.

Identity Theft

• DO NOT impersonate anyone whom you are not, regardless of who the other individual may be.
• Identity theft is illegal and will not be tolerated.

Multiple Posts

• DO NOT post the same topic in multiple forums.
• If you are unsure of which forum a thread should go under, just state that in your post, and a moderator will move the thread to the correct forum.
• Multiple posts are unnecessary and willbe deleted. DO NOT post the same question multiple times in multiple threads in the same forum.
• If no one responds to your question or request, just post a reply to the same message thread again "bump" to bring the message to the top of the list so folks notice it.

Signature Restrictions:

• 1 line (max. 100 characters) is allowed, and must have a minimum of 50 posts in order for your signature to be viewed by other members and guests.
• No images or cookie requests allowed
• You may link to your site, but no affiliate, MLM, drug, gambling or pornographic links allowed.
• No more than 2 links per signature
• Do not use affliliate links in ur signature.

Font Restrictions:

• Do NOT use excessively large font sizes, as it is considered to be "shouting" and will be edited back down to the default size by the moderators

Image Restrictions:

• Unless otherwise stated, if you post an image in the forums, please keep the image size under 50K, and preferably under 80 x 80 pixels

Posting Guidelines:

• Try to post a descriptive topics. That means, if you are starting a new topic, a good description would be something like this "Google stock breaks $700". A weak description of a topic would be something like "Look at this", "Can you believe this". The more descriptive your topic title, the easier to locate the information.
• Moderators & board administrators hve the right to rename the topics to a more descriptive titles, its part of the guidelines of our forum.
• Suggestions and feedback. We care about what you think. Submit your suggestions and feedback in order to create a better community.
• Introduce yourself in the "Members Introduction" forum. Introduce yourself, type of business you are rnning, city/country. This can create an opportunity for you and your business as members might be interested.

iTrader System

• The iTrader system will allow you to rate other members if a transaction occured between you guys. Its there, so use it!
• Create a trading reputation will help you do business smoothly and get the trust from the community.