PublicSchoolOT Forum Rules:

Overall Community Attitude

PublicSchoolOT is a professional community, our purpose is to share, help and support each other.  We ask that you display a positive, friendly attitude when participating in our forums and that you be respectful of others’ opinions.

General Rules:

Dos

•    Check for open threads/topics.  Before posting a new thread/topic, please check to see if there is already a thread/topic open on the subject.

•    Lend a helping hand. If you have information that would be helpful to a particular post, respond and share that information!

•    Use descriptive titles for new posts. Avoid "generic" post subjects like "Help" or "Question".  You will receive a better response to your posts by being more descriptive about the content of your post.

Don'ts

•    While debating and discussion are fine, rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts are not allowed.
•    Use of explicit, obscene or vulgar language or images and/or messages, including racist remarks are not allowed.
•    Please, no SHOUTING. Remember, using ALL CAPITAL LETTERS or larger than typical font is considered yelling and rude, and it is difficult to read.
•    Discussion of illegal activities such as software piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed.
•    Advertising and spamming are not allowed.

o    Advertising or Spam is defined as posting a link for the purpose of selling, soliciting or promoting by someone that has ownership or other “vested interest” to the website involved, including efforts to promote other online forums or websites by website owners.
o    If you are a website owner and have a link that fits into this category that you want to share, please submit it through “Contact Us” and we will be happy to review your submission for potential inclusion in one of our “Resources” sections.
o    Posts and links about fundraising (including nonprofit fundraisers) are NOT permitted.
o    Only links to personal home pages are allowed in signatures and member profiles. Links must be appropriate and abide by rules or they will be removed.
o    Links to helpful websites (commercial or otherwise) are allowed when they are posted by someone without any “vested interest” AND whose purpose is NOT to solicit, advertise, promote, fundraise, etc.

•    Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
•    We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
•    While these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.
•    We reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules, as access to our support forums are a privilege and not a right.

 Users that do not abide by the rules may be subject to having their posts edited or deleted, their member account permanently banned from further access and/or deleted without notice.
 
Rules and guidelines may change at any time, please re-read them regularly.
Jan Hollenbeck, Site Owner/Moderator