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[Jeff Mottle]

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Forum Moderators
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Message Guidelines

• The CGarchitect Discussion Forums are intended to be a professional, constructive, informative and helpful resource for CGarchitect visitors and industry partners. Messages that are inflammatory, non-constructive, or at odds with the goals of the discussion forum will be removed at CGarchitect's sole discretion.
• CGarchitect reserves the right to republish any content from the discussion forums. NOTE - We will not publish your email address without your prior written consent.
• Messages containing offensive language or references will be edited or removed.
• Messages that advocate software piracy will be removed and forwarded to the appropriate authorities. Discussions of software which disables or circumvents licensing of any product is prohibited. Any such messages will be removed.
• Posts containing any talk of WAREZ, pirated software, pirated authcodes etc. will be deleted and the user banned from the CGarchitect forums.
• Messages containing personal attacks against other forum members will be removed.
• Although we respect that visitors to the forum come from around the world, we ask that all messages be posted in English. This ensures that everyone can read them and facilitates moderating the forums.
• No politics, political propaganda, or religious discussions will be allowed on the forums.
• Blatant spamming of any kind will result in your account being banned and all posts being deleted.
• Any posts that are made with the direct intention of inciting a public reaction from all or some forum members will result in your account being suspended and possibly banned.
• These forums are for the discussions of architectural visualization. Although we have an off topic forum, discussions about the following are not permitted in any forums: Politics, Religion, human rights, hate speech, pornography, racism, sexism, xenophobia, homosexuality etc.

Posting Guidelines

• Post messages only to the appropriate forum.
• SEARCH FIRST, POST LATER. Live it, Breathe it! Posts asking questions that are readily available via search will be deleted at our moderators discretion.
• USE PROPER ENGLISH in your post. While we recognize English is not the first language of many members, do not use text messaging speak excesively, abuse punctuation etc. (ie. HELP!!!!!!!!! or pleazzzzzzzz or Gr8t etc). Type language as if you were writting a letter to your client or your boss.
• Do not cross post your message in several different forums
• Please do not post your entire portfolio in-line to the forum. If you would like to receive critiques, either post a few images or post one link to your website.
• When quoting a previous message, include your response above the quoted text. Also remove any portions of the previous message that you are not addressing in your message.
• The subject of your post should clearly outline the contents of your message.
• When critiquing another forum members work or message, comments should be kept constructive.

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General Forum Agreement
Considering the real-time nature of this message board, it is impossible for us to review messages or confirm the validity of information posted. Please remember that we do not actively monitor the contents of posted messages and are not responsible for any messages posted. We do not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message, and are not responsible for the contents of any message. The messages express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily the views of CGarchitect.com or any entity associated with this CGarchitect.com. Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact us immediately by email. We have the ability to remove objectionable messages and we will make every effort to do so, within a reasonable time frame, if we determine that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, so please realize that we may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately.You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this BB to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law. You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyrighted material is owned by you.Although we do not and cannot review the messages posted and are not responsible for the content of any of these messages, we reserve the right to delete any message for any reason whatsoever. You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless with respect to any claim based upon transmission of your message(s).We reserve the right to reveal your identity (or whatever information we know about you) in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by you.

[ August 28, 2006: Message edited by: Jeff Mottle ]