Forum Rules

Please Read This Before Posting

Welcome! The Tour Great Miami Online Community Forums are provided as a free public service to visitors who use the Tour Great Miami website. Visitors may use the forums to meet new friends, sell your stuff, ask for information, and discuss relevant issues. Tour Great Miami Online is not responsible for the contents of any message, for they express the views of the author who posted. We do not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message. Any person who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact us immediately using the contact page on our site. We have the ability to remove objectionable messages and we will make every effort to do so, within a reasonable time frame, if we determine that removal is necessary. Action may be taken to any person who violates the rules; you may be warned, banned, or even reported to your Internet Service Provider. If you are thirteen years or younger, you may not post any personal information such as your phone number or address. You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person\'s privacy, copyrighted, or otherwise violates any law. Please respect those who contribute. Please see the detailed rules below.

Help and Information for New Users

The forum is open to the public so you may browse posts at will. However, if you wish to post, you must register as a user. Your account must be "Activated" before use, which is normally instant but may take up to twenty-four hours. As a registered user you agree to have a valid email address at all times and not be registered with more than one account. We will monitor our log files and send email to verify. Be wary of any personal information you post, spammers are plentiful. You may not advertise in your profile. Please remember to keep posts in the correct category.

• Only one account per person is permitted.
• Tour Great Miami Online Community is about people, places & events, domain names in forum/login names are not allowed.
• Keep all posts on-topic.
• All posts must be in English, unless posted in a specific international forum. If posting in a international forum, please use the language of that forum, and not English.
• Do not astroturf or pretend to be or represent somebody else. Your account will be deleted if found to be in breach of this rule.
• Do not discuss illegal activities. Our server is hosted in the United States and so is subject to U.S. law. Please do not expose us to any unnecessary legal liability.
• Check that your question has not been answered anywhere else on the site. Use the search feature.
• Post your comment / question to the most appropriate place. Any posts deemed to be in the wrong forum will be moved. Do not cross-post the same question to multiple places.
• Make sure you have read the parent article/post completely before posting a reply
• Use your own words. If you wish to use the words of somebody else, quote them, citing the source. Plagiarism is unethical and is illegal in many countries.
• Choose an appropriate subject line. Try to summarise the problem briefly in the subject, and elaborate in the message itself. Repeat the subject in the body if it will make things clearer. Do not use all caps and do not add false information just to get attention (e.g. ;read this or you will be arrested;). An example of a bad subject would be "HELP ME". A good subject might be, "Foo crashes when I do bar". Do not use a URL as a thread title.
• Include as much information as you can when seeking help. This may include logs and command line output. Nobody will be able to help you if you don\'t give sufficient detail.
• No useless posts. This includes: Thread bumping, useless one liners, Flamewars, Trolling and Spamming. 
• Thank those who help you. Acknowledgement of a helpful suggestion not only placates those who helped you, it may also help others with a similar problem. All those who have been helped on this forum are invited to help other users by responding to their questions when they know the answer and / or to consider donating to the project.
• Do not link to any site that contains adult content, sexually oriented material or might otherwise be considered offensive. Any post containing an inappropriate link will be deleted and the poster will receive a warning.
• Do not propose / link to any site that contains warez / copyrighted software / materials that can be downloaded illegally.
• You cannot send PM's until you reach five forum posts

• Must be setup in your Profile (link up the top right, next to WAP) , and not manually added to your messages.
• May NOT contain any images.
• May not contain any pricing, sales, product etc. details.
• May contain a maximum of two smilies. Or one animated smiley.
• May include two clickable links. URL's or mailto: - No duplicate links
• Only exact URLs allowed ie not < a href="http://www.tourgreatmiami.com"> LOOK HERE - No tinyurls etc either, only exact, literal URLs
• May include two colors. Hyperlink color is set by the forum and is not counted as a color.
• Maximum font size cannot be larger than normal.
• Must be kept to a maximum of four lines (at 1024 resolution).
• May not contain links to other threads or posts for the purpose of self promotion
• Your signature is your signature. It is not to promote items for sale or rent.
• Any signature or avatar that is offensive or insulting to either us, our members, or our staff, are prohibited.
• We reserve the right to ask you to change and / or remove your signature or avatar at any time, for any reason.

• Keep all commentary civil, and be courteous at all times. Constructive criticism is welcome, but insults directed towards other users or the site admins will not be tolerated. Coarse/insulting language will not be tolerated.
• No commercial advertising is permitted.
• Any posts deemed to be self promotion, advertising, or spam can and will be removed. NO SPAM - NO ADVERTISING eg. Posting and making excessive, inappropriate and unnecessary references to your products and websites is self promotion.
• This is not the place to settle a commercial disagreement for custom development or to be a 'wall of shame'. Any posts deemed to be of this nature will be removed. Settle your disputes in private please.
• If you feel a post violates any of these rules, or you need to bring it to the attention of a moderator (move threads/close/split), please use the ‘report to moderator’ link to notify the moderators.
• These forums are centered in and around the Miami Valley in Ohio. They are not a place to promote ideological or religious matters. All such discussions will be deleted / closed.