Forum Rules

Westlake Village Forums are a public service made available to allow community members to interact with one another. As this community consists of thousands of store owners, citizens, and visitors, all forum members are required to abide by a set of rules to keep the atmosphere in a positive manner, and set expectations to keep things useful, civil, and appropriate. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the forum rules, please forward your feedback to the administrator.

If you use the forums, we expect you will follow these rules. If you don't want to, no problem ... just don't use the forums. Site administrators have the final say, and may even ban users from the forums, if necessary.

General Rules

The information exchanged on the Westlake Village Forums must relate to the Westlake Village area. If you are posting something commercial, or for your business, it must be related to the Westlake Village area.

Sending unsolicited messages to community members, either publicly or privately via private message or e-mail, is not allowed. Any "spamming" activities reported by community members could lead to bannings of the accounts involved.

Additional guidelines may exist in a forum channel and are an extension to the main Westlake Village Forum rules. These additional guidelines should be read before posting to the channel for the first time.


Posting

Postings should be made in the appropriate forum channel and should have a descriptive subject line. Topics with subject lines such as "HELP!!!" or "Hi" will generally be ignored by community members who may otherwise be able to assist.

Cross-Posting, or posting the same content in multiple forum channels, is not allowed. If you have accidently posted in the wrong forum channel please send a request to a forum moderator to move it to the appropriate channel.

Bumping postings to the top of the forum channel listing, made to get more attention to the post, is not allowed. When no one has replied to a posting you have made it is recommended to reply in the same thread with more information that may help in resolving the issue.

Please remember that community members are taking their time to answer other people's questions. Do not expect your posting to be answered within minutes, and when it has been replied to, please show respect to those answering.

As a community member you alone are responsible for the postings you make in the forum channels. The forums are not a venue for the resolution of disputes between community members, companies or other persons and any such postings may be removed. Due to legal reasons the posting of quotes from private messages or e-mails from other persons are not permitted without their prior approval.

Community members are able to edit their own postings for a limited period of time after the posting was made. Please forward any changes to a forum moderator if you wish to have content edited after this time.

Postings that have been modified by forum moderators are marked as being edited with the moderators name included. Questions regarding edits should be directed via private message or e-mail to the moderator involved. Please include a link to the relevant post when questioning an action performed.

If you have any issues with an action a forum moderator has applied to your account or to one of your postings, or that of somebody elses, please contact the forum moderator involved directly with private message or via e-mail to receive a clearer response as to why an action was performed. You are also more than welcome to contact another forum moderator or the site administrator if you wish to receive additional feedback regarding the issue at hand.


Public Behavior

Please be respectful toward other community members, contribution authors, forum moderators, and team members. Any behavior that appears to be offensive, is not constructive, or is inappropriate will be removed with a possible ban on the accounts involved (at the sold discretion of the site administrator).

If you have experienced abusive behaviour from a community member please inform a forum moderator so appropriate action can be taken.


User Profiles

Every community member has a profile that can be accessed via the "My Stuff" link in the forum header. It is appreciated if all information can be entered honestly and accurately to be able to present ones self to the community in a better and consistent manner, e.g. "Real Name" means just that, your real name - not your company name or other information.

Usernames are used to uniquely identify ones self in the community through the use of a nickname and must not contain e-mail addresses or url addresses.

Avatars are used to further identify ones self in the community through the use of an image that is attached to ones profile. Avatars are by no means a method to promote services or businesses and should be used to promote ones self to the community in a personal manner.

Each user profile can have a signature defined that is automatically added at the bottom of each posting made. The size of signatures should not be greater than 6 lines. If your signature is considered to be long or inappropriate, a forum moderator may ask you to shorten it.


Disclaimer

The forum moderators and administrators reserve the right to modify or remove any inappropriate content posted with or without prior notification.

The data submitted by community members (e.g. forum postings) are owned by the respective author. The author grants Westlake Village Forums the permission to keep and duplicate the data throughout this and related sites.

The administrator of the Westlake Village Forums is Neil Ticktin. "Contact Us" link available at the bottom right of the page below.

The rules of this forum can change at any time, for any reason, at the sole discretion of the site administrator.

Full legalese and disclaimer available at http://forums.westlake-village.com/license.html