Babies With Glasses - The site for families of babies, infants and kids with glasses

This document is designed to clarify various responsibilities of community members here at Babies With Glasses. Please read it and become familiar with it, it's terms are retroactive and agreed by moderators and members.

1. Forum rules

   • Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting. Users consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning (see policing below).
   • Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.
   • Members are asked to not act as "back seat moderators". If members note an issue which contravenes something in this policy document they are welcome to bring it to the attention to a moderator. Only do this if a moderator team member has not replied within 6 hours. Do not respond to such topics yourself. Members who constantly "act" as moderators may be warned.
   • Members should remember this board is aimed at a family-oriented audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.
   • Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Users linking to or asking for information on warez, crackz, etc. or re-printing material without permission will receive a warning and their post will be removed.
   • Members should respect the bandwidth of other users and sites. The use of inline ([IMG][/IMG]) image tags pointing to data stored on third party systems for which the user has not received permission to link to may be removed.
   • Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". That is users should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or coloured text, etc. Similarly users should not SHOUT or use excessive punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts. Users consistently abusing this will be warned.
   • Members should use an appropriate, descriptive title when posting a new topic. Examples of bad titles include; "Help me!", "Glasses", "Hello!", etc. Examples of good titles include; "4-month old needs glasses and I need advice", "Problem with kids removing glasses", etc.
   • Members are welcome to use the test forum for general "test purposes". These may include checking signatures, testing a link or image, etc. (subject to previous points on decency, warez, etc.). Users posting in the test forum just to increase their post counts will be warned.
   • Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. This includes selling products or services (charged and free). Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed. See specific item on spam and 3rd party linking for more information. You may post links to your own websites in your signature, as long as it is not excessive, and the sites are family-oriented.
   • Moderators reserve the right to edit or remove any post at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these points is up to mederators and not users.
   • The above forum rules where applicable also apply to private messaging. Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings (as above) and/or the revocation of private messaging.

2. Signatures

   • Signatures may contain up to five lines (one line being that displayed on a browser opened to 800px width) of text (of small or normal size) and/or one image, valid combinations include; a single image of no more than 60px high, 468px wide and 6kB (6000 Bytes) in size. Signatures containing an image this large may also include one line of small size text. Signatures containing an image of 30px high may include up to three lines of small size text or two lines of normal size text. Images of 15px height or less may allow up to three lines of normal size text or four lines of small size text. Animated images are not allowed.
   • Text sizes should be between 75% and 100% (small and normal). Text in signatures is subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, warez, emoticons, and so forth.
   • Links in signatures are permitted to a maximum of four unique pages or sites. Linked sites may be commercial in nature. You may not link to warez, porn or political, racist or other similar hate sites. Links are included in signature size limits.
   • Users abusing these rules will be warned.

3. Avatars

   • Users are permitted to utilise a gallery avatar, link to one of their own (subject to previous points on misuse of bandwidth), or upload one of their own. User defined avatars should contain no animation, contain no image which attempts to portray the user as having an official status here (e.g. mimicking ranks or copying avatars of moderators), and have a consistently high availability (i.e. links to images on slow servers or those prone to failure may be removed - as they may slow the loading of pages).
   • Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, and so forth.
   • Users abusing these rules will be warned and/or may lose their avatar privileges.

4. Policing

   • Babies With Glasses operates a three strike policy. Users will be warned a maximum of three times for any and all offences in a three month period. If the need arises for a fourth warning a temporary ban will be put in place of between 1 to 7 days.
   • Arguing with moderators after having received a warning will lead to an immediate additional warning. Should this exceed three strikes a temporary ban will be put in place as above.
   • Users who feel they have been unfairly warned are welcome to contact the relevant moderator, e.g. if warned by a moderator you should contact the Moderator team leader. If they feel you were treated badly they will remove a warning.
   • 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 or registering a new email account tp evade an email ban. Circumvention includes posting as an anonymous user.
   • An exception to the three strike rule applies when users contact moderators personally (via any method) and post insulting, indecent or vulgar material. Such users may be subject to an immediate permanent ban.
   • Permanent bans are a last resort and thought is given before implementing them. While Babies With Glasses may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time this is a rare occurrence.

5. Terms of Use

   • The information (including, without limitation, advice and recommendations) and services on the web site are intended solely as a general educational aid and are neither medical nor healthcare advice for any individual problem nor a substitute for medical or other professional advice and services from a qualified healthcare provider familiar with your unique facts. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified healthcare provider regarding any medical condition and before starting any new treatment. Nothing contained in the web site is intended to be used for medical diagnosis or treatment. The information and services are provided with the understanding that neither babieswithglasses nor its affiliates or users are engaged in rendering legal, medical, counseling, or other professional services or advice. Your use of the site is subject to the additional disclaimers and caveats that may appear throughout the web site. Babieswithglasses and its agents assume no responsibility for any consequence relating directly or indirectly to any action or inaction you take based on the information, services, or other material on the web site. While babieswithglasses strives to keep the information on the web site accurate, complete, and up-to-date, babieswithglasses and its affiliates cannot guarantee, and will not be responsible for, any damage or loss related to the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of the information.
   • The web site is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. Except as specifically provided herein, to the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law, babieswithglasses expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, without limitation, any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and noninfringement.
   • Babieswithglasses does not make any warranty that the web site will meet your requirements, or that access to the web site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, or that defects, if any, will be corrected. Babieswithglasses makes no warranties as to the results that may be obtained from the use of the web site or as to the accuracy, quality, or reliability of any information obtained through the web site.
   • You understand and agree that any material and/or data downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the web site is used at your own risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the download of such material and/or data.
   • No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from babieswithglasses or through the web site shall create any warranty not expressly made herein.
   • You agree, through your use of this site, that you will not post any material which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, adult material, or otherwise in violation of any international or united states federal law. You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless you own the copyright or you have written consent from the owner of the copyrighted material. Spam, flooding, advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are also forbidden on this site.
   • Note that it is impossible for the staff or the owners of this site to confirm the validity of posts. Please remember that we do not actively monitor the posted messages, and as such, are not responsible for the content contained within. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information presented. The posted messages express the views of the author, and not necessarily the views of this site, its staff, its subsidiaries, or this site's owner. Anyone who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to notify an administrator or moderator of this site immediately. The staff and the owner of this site reserve the right to remove objectionable content, within a reasonable time frame, if they determine that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, please realize that they may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately. This policy applies to member profile information as well.
   • You remain solely responsible for the content of your posted messages. Furthermore, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the owners of this site, any related websites to this site, its staff, and its subsidiaries. The owners of this site also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or any other related information collected on this service) in the event of a formal complaint or legal action arising from any situation caused by your use of this site.
   • You have the ability, as you register, to choose your username. We advise that you keep the name appropriate. With this user account you are about to register, you agree to never give your password out to another person except an administrator, for your protection and for validity reasons. You also agree to never use another person's account for any reason. We also highly recommend you use a complex and unique password for your account, to prevent account theft.
   • After you register and login to this site, you will be able to fill out a detailed profile. It is your responsibility to present clean and accurate information. Any information the site owner or staff determines to be inaccurate or vulgar in nature will be removed, with or without prior notice. Appropriate sanctions may be applicable.
   • Please note that with each post, your ip address is recorded, in the event that you need to be banned from this site or your isp contacted. This will only happen in the event of a major violation of this agreement.
   • Also note that the software places a cookie, a text file containing bits of information (such as your username and password), in your browser's cache. This is only used to keep you logged in/out. The software does not collect or send any other form of information to your computer.