General Posting Rules and Guidelines

We are very sorry for the recent on-slaught of spammers. We may need to implement another field on the registration, but until then I will continue to manually remove the inappropriate posts, and banning the offenders. Thanks for all your genuine interest and contributions! Carl

Quick newbie question, what is an affiliate link? Any link or a link toa competitors website? I just want to clarify so i don’t accidently link to something I’m not supposed to. Is linking to a YouTube video I’d like to share allowed? Thanks. By the way, great site. Love it.

hi there!

now, there are rules considering

5) No offensive posts, links or images. Staff will decide what is appropriate and what is not. Although we fully respect your rights for freedom of expression we also hold a line at content that is ocscene, hateful, violent, sexually oriented, discriminatory, unlawful, racist or in general poor taste. Again, staff will decide what is appropriate and what is not.

now, animal abuse can be interpreted as one example of bad taste, violent or obscene. and i 100% agree.
what i would like to ask is it ok to post a link from youtube (isn’t there yet, but if i can i’ll put it) showing a part from the documentary movie shot in bosnia. it’s about loggers who use oxen, and both man and beast are pushed to their limits to survive against modern competition.
while it does show the authentic insight in the lives of the people, it is also disturbing in showing how harshly they treat their oxen. for example, they whip them every few meters. as a person knowing a little about oxen, i know this kind of treatment is unnecessary. but this, aside of its documentary value, can clearly be described as animal abuse. is it ok if i post it? or morever, is it ok to disturb the peace on this forum with such a violent material? yes, it does make me sick!

I am less concerned about something as you describe, as it is a reference to something that is already circulating from someone else, and it is directly related to what we are all about. The only problem that we may want to work to avoid is people getting too judgmental and/or defensive. We all are allowed to have our own judgments and prejudices, but we don’t have to get too onerous about them on this site. I think discussions about these types of issues are appropriate, and timely, as long as we can maintain some civility.

Carl

Hi Carl,
how do we get to put the smilies in a post?? I see many of us can’t post them right. Special program or something we have to do in the settings?? If anybody knows. I know it is not that important but when you can’t do something on a computer its :confused:ing and sometimes its just a small adjustment and :p:):o thanks.

Mike