Return to The Bronze: Beta

Due to the diversity of the audience we wish to attract and retain on our site we have some policies that we enforce directly and we ask all posters to follow these regulations.  If you have any doubts about a post, please err to the side of being cautious.   Thanks for your understanding and your abiding by these policies:

• Posts are limited in time between messages from the same user.  This time can range from 2 to 5 minutes depending on server load at the time.
• Due to United States child privacy federal regulations, you must be at least 13 years of age to post on this site.
• The posting or requesting of individually identifying information of any minor person under the age of 18 is expressly prohibited.  This information includes but is not limited to:  Real names, address, phone number, picture, or school name or location.
• Users are not allow to utilize colors in their posts without express written permission of the web hosts.
• Attempts to break, hack, corrupt, delete, launch denial of service attacks, launch viruses, reverse engineer, or in any other way affect the performance of this board in order to deny any legitimate user access to the site is expressly prohibited.
• Attempts to break, hack, steal passwords of, launch denial of service attacks, and viruses of any Bronzers computers is expressly prohibited.
• The following conduct is not permitted:  flaming, swearing, cursing, and other generally abusive behavior.
• The use of sexist, racist, obscene, indecent, or other defamatory commentary is expressly prohibited. 
• Libeling, Slandering, posting of information about other Bronzers known to be untrue, and other attempts at berating Bronze members is prohibited.
• Threats against any persons life or health, including ones own, will absolutely not be tolerated and subject to reports to law enforcement.
• Sexual harassment of any form against another poster via the Board, email, or Instant Message is explicitly prohibited.
• The posting of pornographic or sexually explicit materials or providing links to said materials is expressly prohibited.
• The posting of descriptions or depictions of gratuitous violence is expressly prohibited.
• The posting of any sensitive, secret, or exploitive materials in regard to any person, business, or organization is expressly prohibited.
• Posters may not post any information they know to be under third party copyright, service mark or trademark without said third party's express written permission.
• The posting of any illegal behavior, links to illegal behavior, information on how to commit illegal behavior, links to information on how to commit illegal behavior are all prohibited.
• Creations of false identities in order to confuse or take advantage of other posters is prohibited.
• The use of a screen name that violates any of these rules is expressly prohibited.
• Impersonating of any Bronze: Beta staff or affiliates on this site or any third party sites or any member of the cast and or crew of the shows is prohibited.
• The registration or otherwise using of another posters identity in bad faith is also prohibited.
• The posting of links, or information about downloads or the acquisition of software that are known to be illegal is prohibited.
• Offering items or services for sale or solicitation for offered for said services or products on this site is expressly prohibited.   This included the prohibition of publishing solicitations for advertisers, solicitation for sponsors, posting of ads, or any banners.
• The harvesting of poster emails or screen names for the express use in spam, junk mail, pyramid schemes, or other unsolicited emails is prohibited.
• Continuing to harass in any form another Bronzer via the Board, email, or instant message after being informed that communication is no longer desired is also prohibited.
• Attempts to circumvent posting rules, posting blocks, temporary penalties is expressly prohibited.
• Attempts to reverse engineer, probe, dissect the software and methods used on this site are prohibited.
• Posting using an anonymous proxy server or masquerading your IP is forbidden.

If a poster continuously violates these rules after being warned and asked to stop the behavior we can take the following remedies.

• Permanent Banishment of screen name and/or IP addresses
• Temporary Blocking of screen name and/or IP addresses. 
• Increasing of between post limits.
• Posts in violation of rules subject to removal.
• Revocation of a register username.

We do ask for cooperation from other Bronzers to report to us any violation of these terms.  When these violations happen to contact us ASAP and directly via email and not via posts on the board.  We are the only one who can make the determination if one of these rules have been violated and what remedy if any will be taken. 

We will not get involved or referee any inter-Bronzer disputes.  We believe the board's community is self policing enough to allow them their own latitude on how to handle disputes.  The community is free to agree to guidelines and other rules for posting in order to promote fairness and to encourage active participation and ease of communication, which includes the 4 post per hour rule which is widely accepted..  We are not here to steer the direction of any conversation nor are we here to endorse or enforce any of these rules and guidelines that the community may agree to.

Users are allowed to post under multiple screen names, even at the same time, if they desire.  This board supports and allows anonymous posting.  We do however provide all posters IP address so that readers may identify these multiple identity posts.  Additionally regardless of the number of screen names used that poster is subject to the posting time limits described above.  Posting under multiple screen names is not a direct violation of our rules unless it can be shown they have

1. Stolen another posters established identity 
2. Registered another users identity in bad faith in order to prevent that victim from using their desired identity
3. Knowingly posting as another identity, especially as a member of the cast or crew of the shows in order to confuse other Bronzers.

We do however reserve the right to step in if and when any conversation, threads, or posts are directly affecting the majority of users enjoyment of the board and availability of the board even if the postings are within the guidelines provided above.

Finally, we reserve the right to change or modify these regulations from time to time and by posting you agree to these terms of use and any future changes.  If at any time you no longer agree to these terms, you must stop submitting or reading posts from this site and its related pages.