Current Posting Policies

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Board Policies

To maintain an enjoyable, civil, yet informative and fun environment, the VCA forums have set up a Posting Policy:

The purpose of the Viper Club of America shall be…

1. To help members have more fun with their Vipers. To encourage and promote the admiration for and the ownership, care and maintenance with safe and courteous operation of the VIPER automobile.
2. To be a unified voice for Viper owners. To serve as a medium of exchange of ideas, information and parts for owners of the VIPER, to aid in preserving these automobiles in the original likeness.
3. To act as liaison between Dodge and Viper owners. To provide an organization for club members to meet, socialize and maintain the spirit of good fellowship and to participate in activities including the use of their VIPER both regionally and as part of the VIPER Club of America (VCA).
4. To actively pursue ways to participate in charitable events including car shows and via monetary donations from the club treasury.
5. To further the interest of owners and drivers of the VIPER and to promote the safety and enjoyment of motoring in all phases.
6. To operate within the scope of the law.
7. The club shall be a non-profit organization.
8. The club shall be non-sectarian and non-partisan

In accordance with the Club's purpose, the following policy is in effect for the VCA Website:

1. All posts must conform to a standard that is acceptable in content to Prime Time Broadcast Network TV (TVPG http://www.tvguidelines.org/ratings.asp). Nudity, pornography or profanity (this includes "unique" spelling of profane words) will not be tolerated. Posts not maintaining this standard will be subject to deletion.
2. Personal assaults, threats, stalking, promotion or suggestions of illegal activity, use of copyrighted material, fraudulent statements, or comments derogatory to any social group or individual will be subject to deletion.
3. Posts attacking other posters rather than disagreeing with the post will be subject to deletion.
4. Posts disparaging any of the moderators or the administrator will be deleted. Additionally, posts implying derogatory meanings whether by "double entendre" or inference will be subject to deletion.
5. Attempts at thread hijacking (malicious posting in a fashion to a topic, with intent to change the initial focus) will be subject to deletion.
6. Speculative posts relating to future DCX products or other Viper related items will be subject to deletion.
7. Redundancy, Spamming or flooding the board with post after post just to annoy people, bumping a topic to bring its' position to the top of the forum, or multiple new threads that, in the sole opinion of the moderator, may tend to annoy or disparage another user will be subject to deletion.
8. Posts asking why a post was removed, and posts asking why a warning/strike/ban was or was not issued to a user will be subject to deletion. If a post was removed, a moderator felt it violated one of the policies.
9. Negative statements about vendors, customers, or others must be first hand, and substantiated. Furthermore, we reserve the right to hold negative posts until substantiated, and to give the parties reasonable time to work it out.
10. For the protection of our Viperclub.org users, any advertiser or non-advertiser/vendor with repeated-documented evidence of inappropriate business ethics, can be removed from Viperclub.org, by "blanking out", or removing entirely, the use of the company's name (including any other firm name in which the offending business owner is a principal, partner or licensee) from any and all postings."
11. Classified ad posts to the forums will be subject to deletion. Non-Viper Commercial posts will be subject to deletion with the exception of approved commercial posts by site sponsors. Please note that classified ads, in our classifieds area, are free to VCA members.
12. Event posts to the forums by non-VCA Members will be subject to deletion. If you wish to announce an event, please contact the regional president for that area and coordinate it accordingly. Event posts are allowed only by paid VCA members/officers and should be posted in the appropriate regional forum where the event is to take place.
13. Posts, uploads, links, or specific descriptive mention (by declaring their name, even if it is not an exact link) of material or web sites that do not meet the policies set fourth in the policy guidelines, or that use licensed or copyrighted material without permission are prohibited and will be subject to deletion
14. The Viper Club of America nor its sponsors condone illegal street racing. As such, there will be no posts promoting or reporting such activity. This includes descriptions, pictures, or videos. The VCA encourages you to "take it to the track" and drive safely.
15. Any suggestions, ideas, or discussions regarding the VCA web site should be posted to the appropriate (web site suggestions) topic area. We welcome your input.
16. If a post violates the Posting Policy and has been removed, the entire thread or topic will be subject to deletion.
17. A moderator may turn off the account, for a short term, of someone violating the Posting Policy.

Title, Signature, User Name, & Avatar Policy

Contents must not violate the Posting Policy

Title: The primary Titles are: VCA Member, Viper Owner, Site Sponsor, and Enthusiast. Sponsors in good standing with the VCA shall have the Title of Site Sponsor in their profile.

Signatures: Three lines of plain text, maximum 125 characters, and no images. Signatures that include a corporate entity or business reference are permitted only for Forum Level Sponsors of the VCA

User Name: User Names that include or promote a corporate entity or business are permitted only for Forum Level Sponsors of the VCA.

Avatars: Avatars are available only to VCA Members and are subject to approval. Avatars will be Dodge Viper themed. Avatars that include or promote a corporate entity or business are not permitted.

Suspension Rules

These are in place for those who consistently violate the Posting Policy or violate it in an extreme way. Moderators will issue warnings, attempting to guide users away from unacceptable posting practices. Repeated or severe violations will result in a strike.

1. A two-strike rule is in effect. Violators of the Posting Policy may be assessed "Strikes" in accordance with the Suspension Rules.
2. A post deletion is not necessarily a strike and a warning is not necessarily a strike.
3. If a User posts in a manner that a moderator believes merits a strike, the moderator will send a request for a strike to the web committee. The committee will vote within 72 hours and a majority decides. A Strike or Banned Notice will be sent to the email address in the User's profile.
4. The First Strike carries a 2 week suspension of access to Member Only areas and loss of all posting privileges on the VCA website.
5. The Second Strike eliminates access to Member Only areas and loss of all posting privileges on the VCA Website indefinitely. Reinstatement of privileges may occur at a point in the future. The process is through a request for reinstatement made only by the violator to the web site committee.
6. Although not the intention of the VCA to limit the accessibility of this site to anyone, exceptionally vile behavior may warrant an immediate and indefinite suspension of access to Member Only areas and all posting privileges

This policy applies to ALL areas of the Viper Club of America Web Site: forums, chat, signatures, galleries, classifieds, calendars, user names, PM's, etc.

[XXX BLK]

I can work with this...........Adrian

[mike & juli]

Thank you, Chris for spelling out the policies. I will certainly try to adhere to the rules~!
~juli

[boplaw]

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