We thank all of you for being a part of the growing Spiffy Stores community.

In order to keep the forums running well and to prevent problems, please follow these simple rules for the forums here. If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to contact one of the Staff Members.


Introduction

People who want to post comments on our forum are going to have to follow our rules. We know that not all forums are like that, but this one is.

There’s legal language nearby. Here's the plain English: no libel, slander, no lying, no fabricating, no swearing at all, no words that teenagers use a lot that some people think aren't swearing but we do, no insulting groups or individuals, no ethnic slurs and/or epithets, no religious bigotry, no threats of any kind, no bathroom humour, no comparing anyone to Hitler, Stalin or Pol Pot. We expect heated, robust debate, but comments should be polite and civil. We consider this to be public space so behave and write accordingly.

Yes, what is not allowable is subjective. Spiffy Stores absolutely reserve the right to remove posts we think break any of the rules or the spirit of the rules and we reserve the right to ban individuals from commenting. We will use language filtering programs to block certain words and we will use human editing too.

Comments should be limited to the topic of the original posting. This is not the place for private conversations, no matter how innocent.

We require everyone who comments to register and provide a real e-mail address. No exceptions. And posting comments is not the same thing as complaining to Spiffy Stores or notifying us of a problem - legally, there’s a big difference.

Very important: if you see a comment that you feel is inappropriate, let us know by clicking on the “comment complaint” or "report this comment" button.



General Rules:

• While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters.
• Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.
  
• Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.
  
• Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum email and Private message system to spam other members.
  
• Please wait a reasonable amount of time before bumping posts. For style changes and general 'how-to' questions this should be 24 hours. For specific troubleshooting issues, use 12 hours as a guideline.
  
• We also do not allow posts that are sexual in nature or violate Spiffy Stores community standards. The Spiffy Stores team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.
  
• Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed.
  
• Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
  
• While we are quite happy to have constructive comparative conversations about competitor's products, we will not tolerate blatant adverts or the sort of 'ooh look, yet another shopping cart' threads. Also, we would appreciate it if you refrain from blatant bashing of other software.
  
• We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
  
• If you are going to post non-English on these forums, please also post an English Translation of your post. We will attempt to translate all non-English posts and may remove them if we find that they violate these rules.
  
• Also 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.
  
• You cannot post any affiliate or referral links, or post anything asking for a referral. Such posts will be subject to removal.
  
• You cannot post advertisements or notices for contests.
  
• We also reserve the right to ban anyone who wilfully violates the forum rules, as access to our forums are a privilege and not a right. A banned customer is still entitled to support from the support system.

Any threads/posts of these types will be deleted....

Advertising Services and Solicitation

We do not allow people to post threads or to send private messages or emails to users here that advertise or solicit any products, services, funds or donations. Explicit advertising and solicitating in signatures is also prohibited.

We do not allow selling any installation or upgrade services, as we offer this already, and we can not condone this type of service offered from anyone on the forums because of the potential security problems it brings up. You should never give out your Spiffy Store login or password to anyone, and you should not disclose logins and/or passwords to anyone except through the Spiffy Store support system. We can not take responsibility if you disclose this information to anyone else.



Links in Signatures

Links in signatures must follow these guidelines:

• Linking to a commercial product/service is fine, provided it is not a product or service that competes with a product or service offered by Domain Hosting Shop and it is not an affiliate program link for Spiffy Stores or any other affiliate program.
  
• Promotional text for a commercial product or service is ok, provided there are no price(s) of product(s) or service(s) listed.
  
• A link and promotional text for a site that is not commercial and does not contain product(s) and/or service(s) is allowed, provided the site is not sexual or does not violate Spiffy Stores' community standards. The Spiffy Stores team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards. (Examples include sites about drugs and/or sex.)
  
• Duplicate links to the same URL in a signature are not allowed.

Avatars

Animated avatars are not allowed. Sorry.

Avatars that may be confused with official staff avatars are not allowed.



Stores for Sale

We do not allow people to post that are looking to sell or buy a Spiffy Store. While you are allowed to sell and transfer your store to another owner, these forums are not the appropriate place to do this.



Affiliate Programs

The Spiffy Stores affiliate program is designed to allow people to advertise Spiffy Stores on their web site and earn a commission on all sales generated through that link. You are not allowed to post your affiliate link anywhere on the Spiffy Stores forums, in your signature or send the link through private messages to other forum users. Anyone that does this may be removed from the affiliate program immediately without notice. This rule applies to all affiliate program links, not just the Spiffy Stores program.



Signature Size Limits

• All signatures should not exceed the following size limits, and you can't have both text and images
  
• For text signatures: 4 lines normal size, 8 lines small size and up to 90 chars per line. Font sizes above 2 are not allowed. (Blank lines count as lines.)
  
• Do not use images with large text to bypass the previous item
  
• For images in signatures: 1 image up to 300 pixels wide, 125 pixels tall and 20k in size
  
• Animated images in a signature are not allowed

Thanks!