Welcome to the North Easts Online Snooker Community
Thank you for visiting, We hope you enjoy using the site .
You will find useful links and major areas at the top of the home page.
This is a community site and part of being in a community is communication amongst the members. Therefore, you will find you are able to post your own comments and even start your own discussions in some parts of the site. Before you do that, you should take a look at the Frequently Asked Questions section of the site for our rules and terms and conditions.
Our moderation will be harsh as the site is there for all to enjoy.
Also, before you post for the first time, take your time to read some of the threads that already exist and consider how your posts will be taken by other members of the community.
Remember as well that many of the members know each other and have met face to face, some as a result of communicating on the site. Bear that in mind when communicating too.
If you have any questions or queries regarding using the site, we suggest you post in the forums first, that will likely result in the quickest response, we cannot always answer all questions speedily.
Enjoy.
*** Rules & Help Info ***
Advertising in the forums
Advertising in the forums, without the permission of a member of site staff, is not allowed. We allow most things - just ask first.
The forums are not the best place to place an event .
If you have an event you wish to promote, do the following:
1. Submit it to the event diary, it will be posted after review by us.
2. Submit an article to the news editor, he will give home page coverage.
3. Discuss the event in the forums as you, or other users, see fit - using hyper links to point at the article.
4. Report the event to us, gives value to the attendees and to us for promoting it. Enhances the prestige of the event.
1 & 2 give a basis of static content for 'official' information on the event, costs, dates, times, contacts, directions, any other pertinent information. 3 adds to the promotion of the event and allows for feedback before and after.
** How to add an article to our website?
1. Go to the home page and select the submit news button
2. Fill in the provided form.
3. Wait for us to review your supplied article.
4. The article will then be added to our database.
North East Snooker forum user agreement
All users must abide by the following rules.
i) North East Snooker provides the forums to encourage discussion on certain snooker matters – and accepts no responsibility for views, defamatory or otherwise, expressed within those forums by individual (or group) forum users.
ii) North East Snooker accepts no responsibility for views posted in these forums by individual (or group) forum users. Individual (or group) forum users are solely legally responsible for any views, defamatory or otherwise, which they post in the forums.
iii) North East Snooker reserves the right to surrender individual (or group) forum user details to the appropriate authorities should legal proceedings take place.
Use of the forums indicates that the above rules have been read and agreed between Snooker Junkies (the site) and any individual (or group) forum user.
Use of the forums indicates that all individual (or group) forum users accept the above rules as a legally binding contract in case of subsequent litigation.
** Posting new topics
1. Please check before you create a new topic to ensure that one on the same subject does not already exist.
2. Please stay on subject.
3. Keep personal attacks out of the forums - this is not acceptable behavior
Please don't make us become heavy handed. Moderate yourselves.
Pornography
We will not accept posts of a pornographic nature (either graphical or text based) at any time.
** Registering
Registration is not required to view current topics on the Bulletin Board; however, if you wish to post a new topic or reply to an existing topic registration is required. Registration is free and only takes a few moments. The only required fields are your UserName, which may be your real name or a nickname, and a valid e-mail address. The information you provide during registration is not outsourced or used for any advertising by North East Snooker, If you believe someone is sending you advertisements as a result of the information you provided through your registration, please notify us immediately.
** Moderators
Moderators control individual forums. They may edit, delete, or prune any posts in their forums. If you have a question about a particular forum, you should direct it to your forum moderator.
** Changing Your Profile
You may easily change any information stored in your registration profile by using the "profile" link located near the top of each page. Simply identify yourself by typing your UserName and Password and all of your profile information will appear on screen. You may edit any information (except your UserName).
** Active Topics
Active Topics are tracked by cookies. When you click on the "active topics" a page is generated listing all topics that have been posted since your last visit to these forums (or approximately 20 minutes).
** Editing Your Posts
You may edit or delete your own posts at any time. Just go to the topic where the post to be edited or deleted is located and you will see a edit or delete icon. Click on this icon to edit or delete the post. No one else can edit your post, except for the forum Moderator or the bulletin board administrator. A note is generated at the bottom of each edited post displaying when and by whom the post was edited.
** Attaching Files
For security reasons, you may not attach files to any posts. However, you may cut and paste text into your post.
** Censoring Posts
The Forum does censor certain words that may be posted; however, this censoring is not an exact science, and is being done based on the words that are being screened, so certain words may be censored out of context. Words that are censored are replaced with something more appropriate .
Edited by StuGreen on 18-05-2010 22:21
