Forum Rules & Guidelines

Please remember that the HairTalk Messageboards are 100% privately owned and completely funded by HairBoutique.com.  Therefore, it is at HairBoutique.com's discretion how these HairTalk boards are used and who may participate. 

To keep this Hair Talk forum enjoyable, safe, clean, usable, and helpful to everyone, a set of usage rules have been issued as guidelines for participating in the HairTalk formums. HairBoutique.com asks all HairTalk forum members to comply with the rules as listed below: 

Golden Rules Of HairTalk Participation:

• Please post in the appropriate forum!  Please make every effort to post in the appropriate topic forum whenever possible (Example: Celebrity Hair would be about celebrities but long hair should be posted in the Long Hair Forum). You may have your post moved or deleted if it is posted in an inappropriate forum!  When in doubt what forum to post your topic in, post in General Hair Talk.

• Use Descriptive Topic Subjects!  Please try to be specific when posting. This will help others find related topics that they wish to read. Topics with inappropriate topic subjects may be moved or deleted!

• Please Research Your Post! Make sure you are not double posting.  Please also search the desired forum first to determine if your post has already been covered.  Most questions have been answered dozens of time before.

• Trolling Will Not Be Tolerated!   Please don't add posts that are inflammatory just to annoy people or add posts that you know will cause arguments.

• Personal Attacks! Please do not criticize people. While it is appropriate to share your difference of opinion, please do so with kindness and courtesy.  Please remember that the written word may appear harsher than those that are spoken.  So please post in a manner "as if" you would wish to be talked to in person.

• Flaming. Flaming will not be tolerated. This includes any posted material which is vulgar, defamatory, inaccurate, harassing, hateful, threatening, those that invade the privacy or others, any posts that are blatantly sexually oriented, or violates any laws.

• Slander. The HairTalk Board Administrators reserve the right to immediately remove any posts that are designed to slander any or all visitors.  HairBoutique.com reserves the right to delete any posts that might be deemed legally liable on the part of HairBoutique.com.

• No pornographic, sexually offensive, sexually explicit, or objectifying material will be tolerated under any circomestances.  This includes suggestive images, graphics, and blatantly demeaning comments.

• Please do not post links to warez, warez sites or sites with pornographic or objectionable content. Only link to sites that are appropriate for family viewing only.  HairTalk takes pride in their G Rating which makes it possible for all age groups to visit and post messages.

• Respect the privacy of others.  Please do not post other poster's private phone numbers, addresses, pictures, etc., without their express and written permission. If you wish to contact HairTalk visitors privately via phone or personally, please make all arrangements off-topic via Board Mail (BMail) or personal email.

• Each forum member may have only one account.
Any member attempting to post from more than one account will have duplicate accounts deleted. 

• Please do not use objectionable language. All inappropriate or objectionable language will be immediately edited.

• Please do not dig up ancient threads. If you wish to continue an old discussion (older than 1 month), please create a new thread and reference the old one in your post.

• Absolutely NO Blatant Advertising Will Be Tolerated. This forum is not provided as free advertising space for others to use to promote their products, services, websites or related agendas.  HairTalk is also not designed to help other websites build their own visitor traffic. All unauthorized advertising posts or posts that attempt to use HairTalk inappropriately will be immediately removed. 

• NO Spamming. Commercial posts or flooding the forum with useless content will be immediately removed.

• Message content. All posters remain solely and personally responsible for the content of any posts or messages. 

The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of HairBoutique.com, any agency, or entities therof including, but not limited to employees, contractors, partners, afflicated companies and networks.

 

Neither HairBoutique.com nor any other agency or entities thereof, assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, product or process disclosed on this website.

 

• No Cap Locks. Please do not post messages with the subject or post all in capital letters, or your message will be edited and/or deleted. All capital words are not only annoying to the majority of visitors but are read 50% slower than normal writing.

• Please Post In English. This site was created to be an English language site so please ONLY post in English. Other languages can not be moderated and thus will be removed.

• Please Do Not Make Inappropriate Topics Stickies.
Except in special circomestances no topic should be made a sticky without the agreement of the majority of the forum's regular visitors.

Signatures

• Signatures may be no longer than 4 lines

• Signatures may contain 1 image (max. 250 x 100pixels).

• Signatures may contain one link to your personal site or sites that maybe of use to other members as long as this does not violate our No Blatant Advertising rule!

• Signatures are expected to follow the same guidelines as posts.

If any visitor is discovered to be deliberately breaking any of the rules listed above you may have your account deleted immediately. There will be no advance warnings given! 

If you are banned from visiting HairTalk for inappropriate behavior listed above, you will not be allowed re-entry without the express written permission of HairBoutique.com.  Any attempt to continue to visit after being formally banned will result in serious consequences.

HairBoutique.com has provided the HairTalk boards as a complimentary place to discuss hair since 1996 and wishes to make sure that the boards continue to offer a safe and positive experience to all that visit here.

Thank you in advance for all of your support.

Karen Shelton
CEO/Founder
HairBoutique.com