Guidelines:
By participating in the Northwest Folklife Community Forums, you are agreeing to the rules and guidelines contained herein. These guidelines are intended for all users, including Forum Moderators.

The forums should be a friendly and welcoming place for all. Please treat fellow community members with the same respect and courtesy that you would like others to give you. To ensure accurate information as well as to avoid any misunderstanding due to poorly worded posts, review your post before submitting

If you have any questions about your post, refrain from submitting and revise. If you feel that another member’s posts are inappropriate, email a link to communityforum@nwfolklife.org. In the spirit of the Northwest Folklife community please help keep our boards a fun, educational, and welcoming place for members.

Community Forum Rules
-You agree not to hold Northwest Folklife.com or its members liable for anything stated within the forums. Messages posted at this site are the sole opinion and responsibility of the poster. Northwest Folklife makes no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness or adequacy of the information contained within the forums.
-Northwest Folklife and its forum moderators reserve the right to remove, edit or delete without notice any and all content placed in these forums.
-Moderator and/ or Northwest Folklife action may be final. Actions may be reversed by Northwest Folklife or a moderator after review of the matter. If you have a problem with any action please email communityforum@nwfolklife.org.
-Using the forum to solicit discussions contrary to the guidelines may be considered unacceptable.
-Northwest Folklife.com reserves the right, but does not assume the obligation, to monitor transactions and communications that occur in these forums.
-It is your responsibility to be familiar with and remain updated to current Community Forum Guidelines. All users of these forums must comply with these guidelines. Infractions of any guideline may result in revocation of forum privileges.

General Community Forum Guidelines for Posting

1. Posts, nicknames, signatures, and general content that are discriminatory, inflammatory, vulgar, sexually explicit, inappropriate, rude or otherwise will not be tolerated and will be removed.

2. Follow the Golden Rule. Always be respectful of each other, Northwest Folklife employees, and Forum Moderators. Be civil, clean, and decent in all posts. Open discussions of varying points of view are encouraged but only if they remain constructive and not inflammatory. Flaming or personal attacks are not allowed or tolerated. Anyone using/ posting inappropriate content, language, starting personal attacks, engaging in hate speeches and rants, or being disruptive to the Community’s positive environment may be barred from all further discussions and/ or the Northwest Folklife Community Forums completely.

3. The Community Forum system is not a venue for personal or private vendettas or causes, including political debates. If you become involved in a dispute or have a problem with another forum member, moderator, or Northwest Folklife.com please email communityforum@nwfolklife.org.

4. Links to adult content, pages with links to adult content, or messages describing anything inconsistent with the Nwfolklife.org Community Forum Guidelines will be removed.

5. Do not post copyrighted material (e.g. Articles) written by others without their permission.

6. Keep thread discussions on topic, and within the subject of the forum. Please do not “hijack” or “bump” the thread gain additional exposure to a post or yourself. Please do not cross-post within other forums and threads.

15. Anyone posting another member’s personal or website details, without permission, will be banned. Please do not, nor is it advised, to post sensitive or confidential information to the forum about yourself or other members (i.e. account information, private communications with Northwest Folklife staff, moderators, etc.). If such information is needed please email it to communityforum@nwfolklife.org

What Happens if I Break the Rules?
Many times members don’t realize that they have gone against guidelines. That is why it your responsibility to always remain up to date with all Forum rules and guidelines. In general, we follow a three strikes policy. Please keep in mind that all infractions are different, and will be handled on an individual basis. Depending on the severity, Northwest Folklife reserves the right to follow a different course of action.