Zoophiles Forum: Our Forum Membership Guidelines

Spamming are posts which do not contribute to the Forum Community, such as advertisements, duplicate posting and posts that are "Off-Topic" to a specific thread.

The act of bumping one's post is considered spamming and contributes nothing constructive to the discussion. Your thread will be seen; there is no need to continually bumping it to the top of the list.

Posts or PMs to the Administrators or Forum Moderators that make allegations, threats, use combative language, and/or are demanding in nature, will be removed without notice.

Posting on behalf of a banned Member is not allowed and will be removed.

Posting personal information pertaining to another Member is strictly prohibited....your account will be immediately banned without any warning!

Threads that make groundless claims about the Forum, its Staff and Moderators or any other Members will be removed without notice.

To help with the Staff and Forum Moderators that keep track on what happens in this Forum, we require that all posts be in the English language only as the support of this Forum is in English.

Arguments can not be won. If you have a contrasting opinion, please state it simply and clearly. If necessary, agree to disagree with others who may have differing opinions. When discussions turn into long, hostile arguments, the thread will be closed or removed.

Any Member that we feel is trying to find some loophole to get away with disobeying the rules and guidelines of this Forum, in fact or in spirit, will be banned.

This Forum is for the positive depiction of Zoophilia. Posts which represent animals or Zoophilia in a disrespectful way or support or encourage abusive practices is completely unacceptable. Do not post anything that describes or shows a person or animal being harmed (emotional or physical) in any way. Activity depicted must be appropriate to the age for the humans or animals involved and anything that appears to advocate or encourage premature zoosexual activity with any sexually immature humans or animals is strictly forbidden and will be removed without notice.

Underage is defined by the laws of your country, but the minimum age used to determine underage material will always be 18 for this Forum. Underage material is never tolerated and Members posting anything of this nature will be immediately banned without any prior warning! The term material is defined as any video, image or text file that is pornorgraphic in nature that has been included either in the text post, added as an attachment file for download or made available as a link in the post to an outside source. Forbidden material includes underage photographic pictures, movies, cartoons, drawings/furry/magna and underage stories/fantasies. If you are in doubt about anything you want to post, please ask someone in Staff to check it out for you. We have a Media Sub-Forum called Media Uploads for Staff Review where you can upload such material and have someone in Staff review and answer any questions you may have. Our moderators will always stay on the safe side and assume the content can be taken as underage if they are in doubt.

This Forum does allow for Members to talk about their own "early experiences" in replies to Topic threads but only to the extent and with the emphasis on the relationship in general and when it is not deemed to be explicit or pornographic in nature.

This Forum uses a Warning System for violations of our User Guidelines and posting rules. Every violation of our rules will be tracked in our warning and tracking system. The "Warning" is not just a warning; the system counts the number of warnings you receive and it is programmed to automatically ban you from our Forum if you get too many warnings. You can see your warnings yourself by clicking on the % below your Avatar (Note: Other members can not see your warning level; only yourself and Moderators can see it). If you reach 30% (3 warnings), we may Suspend your account for up to 3 days. At 50% the suspension will be up to 7 days and at 70% the suspension will last for up to 30 days. Suspension is the most serious penalty (excluding banning) that can be applied. A suspended user will find that they cannot log into the board or access any other functions until the suspension is removed. A user can also be suspended indefinitely depending on the violation of the rules involved. When a users warning level reaches 100% (10 warnings) that account will be banned from this Forum.

For every Topic Thread you'll see a 'Report' button in a post, next to the 'Quote' button. This function will let you report the post to the Forum Moderator (or the Administrators, if there isn't a specific Moderator available). You can use this function when you think a Moderators should be aware of the existance of that post. However, do not use this to chat with the moderator(s)! You can use our Personal Messenger system for that.

The Staff and Moderators of the Forum strive to keep a fun, informative and interesting place for lively discussion. If you see a post that offends you personally, it doesn't mean that the post itself has necessarily violated any guidelines.

There will ALWAYS be posters who are less sensitive than others. Also keep in mind that there are language and cultural differences on the forum due to a wonderful array of Members from all over the world.

Before reporting a post, we ask that you review the guidelines herein to ensure that the said post is indeed in violation of a rule(s).

Do NOT post to (or address a thread) before you report it. You may end up finding yourself in violation with your own response! And always remember: Do Not Feed the Trolls!!!

While the staff may not respond directly to the individual who reports a post, please be assured that we will review each and every one and take action if and as needed.

In addition, the staff does not need to explain their decision(s) to the reporting individual or poster in question. However, if and when a poster receives a Warning, they are notified of the reason by PM.

Do not email or PM moderators your complaints. They will be deleted. Please use the Reporting Posts system. If you disagree with a post or an action taken by a Moderator, you can send your complaint via PM to a Forum Administrator.

Part of the moderators responsibilities are to scan thread titles for possible editing in keeing with the Forum Guidelines. Do not take offense if you find that your title has been altered. If we feel a current title will more than likely initiate flames wars, trolling, etc., there is a good chance it might be edited.

Our Social Meet 'N' Greet & Personal Ads Forum serves as a way to help you meet other Members in your own area and provides you with the opportunity to arrange and organize possible meetings with other like-minded people from our Forum. However, in the interest of maintaining a mutually respectful, morally sound and private environment for all our Members, we will not allow the following Topics or Posts...

• You can not use the Social Meet 'N' Greet & Personal Ads Forum as your own personal "hookup & dating" board solely to meet people specifically for sexual purposes.
  
• It is EXPRESSLY forbidden to create any Topics or Posts that are focused on you requesting any "animal sexual services" from other Members or offering your own animals for the same.
  

The first offence of these Guideline will result in a raise of your Warning Level and a minumum three day suspension of your User Account on this Forum. A second offence will result in either a longer suspension or having your account Banned without any further notice.

As stated in 16. Post/Thread editing of our Forum Guidelnes, we reserve the right to edit or delete any posts that violates the above or in our opinion just gives too much Personal Real Life information about yourself; The Staff treats this issue very seriously and please understand we are only looking out for the personal welfare and safety of yourself and for all the Members here on the Forum. Please carefully read 17. Your Privacy on the Forum before posting anything in this area and in any other part of this Forum.
These Guidelines apply to all areas of this Forum, but we also have additional rules that are specific to a Forum User Group that will either append or override some of the rules you see above. When a Forum User Group has these additional Guidelines, you will see a link above the Forum User Group Name near the top of the screen or a "Pinned" Topic with the Posted Guidelines. Be sure to read these rules before posting anything in that Forum User Group.