Site Rules

We have a great community here and these rules are intended to help Animal Rescue Korea continue to be a valuable service for everyone by clarifying the responsibilities of its members. Thank you in advance for following these guidelines and for expressing your thoughts and opinions.

Remember, you alone are responsible for the material that you post.

Highly Recommended

• Share your positive, supportive thoughts and comments, and information that can benefit others. Encouraging and helpful words mean a lot, even to readers who may not say so publicly.
• Proofread before you post. We're not looking for textbook perfection, just a certain level of understandability. Take the time to check your spelling and grammar as best you can.
• Consider eye-comfort by limiting your paragraphs to 3-4 sentences, then start a new paragraph. It's hard to read a big block of text.

Unacceptable Behaviour

• Profanity - There's just no need.
• Culture-bashing - Stereotypes or broad statements about other cultures will not be tolerated.
• "Shouting" - Using all caps or special characters to draw extra attention to your post or to make your post "louder" is not acceptable.
• Personal attacks - Always feel free to respectfully disagree with people, question their ideas, or counter their statements. However, name-calling, bullying, public or private harassment, abusive statements and open attacks have no place in our community.
• Spamming - Posts that contribute nothing and/or have no relation to the current discussion, as well as those posts that are intended to annoy are examples of spamming.
• Thread hi-jacking - All posters must respect the rights of other members to post questions, comments and ideas that do not agree with their own, but please keep your posts "on topic", i.e. relevant to the subject(s) of the discussion. Off-topic posts will be moved or removed.
• Trolling - Pointless, inflammatory statements intended to start fights will be deleted immediately. Animal related topics can be highly emotional. Keep your language civil and avoid overgeneralizing about nations and cultures.
• Black (or gray) marketing - Suggesting that non-military people get a member of the US military to purchase anything for them on base is ILLEGAL. By discussing this type of illegal activity on these forums you are putting this website at risk of prosecution for black marketing. Any discussion of buying or getting articles bought on a US military base will be removed.

Unacceptable Content

• Copyrighted material - Do not copy & paste material from other sites into your post without permission from the copyright holders. Link to info from other sites instead. This includes text as well as images and other media.
• Private or personal information - Do not post the real name, phone number, address, email address, or other information which identifies a person without the explicit consent of that person.
• Offensive material - Do not post or link to content that is libelous, defamatory, offensive, obscene, racist, abusive, that violates a third party's right to privacy, or that is otherwise inappropriate.
• Graphic material - There are many horrific pictures of animal abuse already on the internet, please don't post them here. If you want to discuss an issue that has related graphic images, link to the material and include a warning and brief description so that others can make an informed decision on what they view.
• Adult content - In a broad sense, this includes pornographic material, gambling, drug abuse, etc.
• Religion/ politics - ARK is not the appropriate venue for discussing these sensitive topics.

Enforcing rules:

1. Application
   These rules apply to every aspect of the website. Avatars, titles, signatures, and emails sent through this website are subject to the same conditions as posts and comments.
2. Enforcement process
   The process of enforcing rules will begin with a public warning and/or private email. If the user does not comply with moderator requests and/or if multiple infractions occur, the result will be a temporary or permanent ban of the user in question.
3. Moderation
   The moderators will delete or edit posts, titles, and signatures that break site policy. A message will be sent to inform you of any editing or to request that you make changes yourself within 1 day. Failure to do so will result in deletion.
4. Deletion
   At the moderator's discretion, content deemed highly inappropriate or spam-like will be deleted immediately without messaging the user.
5. Arguing
   Arguing with moderators about disciplinary actions related to behaviour and/or content which breaks forum rules will lead to an additional warning. A ban may be issued depending on the severity of the situation.
6. Ban circumvention
   Any attempt to circumvent a temporary ban will lead to that ban being made permanent. Circumvention includes re-registering under a non-banned username, changing IP addresses to evade an IP ban, and registering a new email account to evade an email ban.

NOTE: The administrators reserve the right to add, modify, or remove any of these rules at any time. Rule changes apply to past, current, and future posts.

Thanks again for joining ARK and helping build a great community.