Disciplinary Procedures and Guidelines:
Each board member has a meter reflecting his/her warn status. Each member starts off at zero.

Warnings:
Upon committing any of the stated applicable offenses below, members will receive a warning, this warning will be apparent in your status bar. On a member's third warning their account will be disabled for an administrative review resulting in a lifetime ban.


Personal attacks:
Insults of any kind directed at another member, their ideas, opinions and personal character. This includes demeaning/ sarcastic picture attachments. Failure to comply will result in a official mandatory warning.


Language:
I. All language offenders will be reminded of the rule one time only. Any subsequent violations of this rule will receive an official and mandatory warning.

1. Deliberate attempts at bypassing the language filter by substituting symbols in place of a letter.

2. Any post that has more filtered words than actual content.


Inappropriate Post Content:

1. Any language or subject matter that is sexually suggestive will be deleted, and the member responsible will receive a mandatory suspension pending a review with Administration to determine if further action is required.

2. Any language in a post that is threatening will receive an official mandatory warning.


Trolling:
Definition: An account created for the purpose of posting controversial and irrelevant messages with the intention of provoking other members.

1. Any profile seen participating in the behavior described above will be subject to an immediate ban.

2. Each Member will be permitted to have one account only . Any and all extra accounts will be closed.


Report Button:
I. Purpose:
This feature allows any member to report on a post and/or member whose content or subject matter fails to comply with the previous stated posting guidelines.

II. Exceptions:
1. Excessive and inappropriate use of the report post function will result in an official mandatory warning.


Unauthorized Sales:
1. Sale transactions on the board are not permitted. This includes Promotions and Advertising for business sites. Any and all posts of this nature will be deleted.

2. Season ticket holders whom are interested in selling off their tickets should use the Flyers Market Place feature on the team's home page. Flyers Market Place Link

Spamming:
I. Definition: Spam is an endless repetition of worthless text. Examples: [+any number; This; smileys,] -Other Forbidden Applications: [Sopcast Links]

1. Excessive use of the above mentioned spamming techniques will be subject to a PM warning. Failure to comply after this point will result in a suspension of the member's account for the purposes of an Administrative review to determine if further action is necessary.

Warn Penalty Review Policy
I. Conditions: Any member who has a status warning on their account from an incident which dates back 1 year, and has not incurred further penalties in that time, is eligible for an Moderator review. Pending the results of this review, your warn status will decrease by the penalty amount of the reviewed incident.
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Board and Forum Basics:

I. New members are permitted to post in any threads. Once a user has accumulated 200 posts they will be promoted to "Full Member" status, and will be able to create new topics.

II. Do not post duplicate topics. If someone has already created a topic another topic containing the same subject matter does not need to be created.
a). Topics that are unrelated to the Flyers or hockey in general are allowed to be posted in the Miscellaneous section as long as they are not considered inappropriate.
B). Stay on topic.

III. You will respect the personal privacy of players/management and their families. Discussions about players or management that have nothing to do with hockey are not permitted.

IV. Signature pictures are allowed as long as they are appropriate and are not larger than 500x200 pixels. (width x height)

V. Avoid posting in ALL CAPS.

VI. Each member has the option and ability to BLOCK another member's posts and PM's. This feature should be utilized when attempts at conflict resolution between said parties fail.

Discussing politics on the board is no longer allowed. Any and all threads opened for this purpose will be immediately deleted. FMB members who continue to repeatedly create political threads despite the rules will be warned.