1. Members make up the dance forums and members are the most important part of all, with friendly and active participation strongly encouraged. We want your experience here to be enjoyable and informative.

2. The Dance Forums aims to provide quality information about partner dancing of all kinds in a friendly and supportive environment. We strive to answer every question or try our best to find the answer and, in order to ensure the quality of information provided on the Dance Forums, we strongly discourage speculation and gossip. In order to keep the Dance Forums clear of any controversy we attempt to avoid being party to any unsubstantiated claims.

3. All dance related topics and perspectives are welcome and we encourage a dynamic environment with debates, news, and personal stories. At the same time, all materials need to be appropriate for most readers including young dancers. Members of the Dance Forums may be as young as 13 and it is important that materials unsuited for children of this age not be posted on the Dance Forums.

4. Please do not engage in name calling, attacks on a person's character, or profanity (no matter how subtle – we take all such activities seriously). Please report abusive behavior to a moderator. Please don't attempt to debate such posts. Penalties for abusive behavior may result in deletion of your username and posts, or banning your IP address.

5. There are several moderators in the Dance Forums. Any posts that do not belong will be removed as quickly as possible. In some cases a member's post may be edited. Generally, moderators will discuss the matter and try to come up with a solution that is appropriate to the situation. Usually, the member will be notified when this occurs. The moderators will strive to be as thoughtful and courteous as possible.

Dance Forums reserves the right to remove text from posts, lock topics or delete messages without explanation. In some instances, the member may receive a private message explaining the Moderator's position. Issues concerning moderation will NOT be discussed in the open forum. Please discuss such problems by sending a private message to a Moderator, or taking advantage of the Private Messages to Staff forum, wherein posts are only visible to the original poster and to the Dance Forums staff.

6. Please be courteous in your posting, by following these basics:
- Do not title threads or post using ALL CAPS.
- Place new threads in the most appropriate forum.
- New threads should have a title which reflects the overall subject of the post (i.e. should not be vague).
- Do not post duplicate threads in multiple forums. Our members will find your information if it is indeed pertinent to them and duplicate threads will be deleted at the very least.

7. Posting commercial links in the discussion forums is not allowed. Because we strive to be a source of information, in most cases mentioning the name of the product or website (the url without the www, .com, .net, etc.) is tolerated. While commercial links are allowed in the Events/Ads and Websites forums, this opportunity is reserved for our active members and is governed by our advertising guidelines.


In all cases please avoid posts that merely provide a link to another site. (ex. "Check this out: www. blah .com). At least give us a little information about the link and why you think we should click on it.

Please keep in mind that it is quite easy to promote a website by including a link as part of your signature which is at the end of every message you post at the dance forums. To add a signature, click on profile and look near the bottom of the page.

8. Rules governing use of signatures:
- Signature may not take more than 4 lines of text including breaks.
- Pictures are not allowed because they are distracting, and can slow people's page load times. We have people in less developed countries on dialup or paying based on bandwidth.
- No more than one link to a commercial site in the signature, and no more than 3 total links.

9. Your input contributes to making the forum a better place. If you see a way that we could improve Dance Forums, please send a private message (PM) to one of the moderators or post in the Private Messages to Staff forum.

10. Should there be a specific post you have made that you wish have edited or deleted by a moderator, kindly send a private message to the moderator for the forum in question. Unfortunately, it is not possible to delete more than just a couple of posts, as this is both time consuming for the staff who are volunteers, and could severly disrupt the forum itself. If many posts need to be edited, there will be a significant fee required to pay for the time of the staff to perform this function carefully so as not to disrupt the forum. Please be thoughtful of what you are posting so as to avoid a difficult situation regarding posts made in the past.

Photo Album Guidelines

1. WHEREAS, this forum promotes good, clean, and family oriented dance information; thusly, the Photo Album continues this tradition.

THEREFORE, Administrators may remove any photo, that they deem questionable, from further viewing by the members of this forum.

WARNING: no porn, nudity, or distasteful photos as deemed inapropriate by the Administrators, will be allowed in the Photo Album. First offense by a member will be the last entry submitted by that member, as their membership will terminate immediately.

2. Moderation of content

All photos will be subject to the same photo-policy on decency. Any photo that contains overtly sexual, hateful, or violent content, poses, or situations are forbidden.

Any nudity, artistic or otherwise is forbidden. Nudity for purposes of this forum is defined by the lack of covering one could reasonably expect to get from a swimsuit.

Photos that are not clearly in violation, but are suggestive or questionable should be sent to a moderator or admin to be put up for review by the board of moderators. Any photo a moderator feels is questionable will be hidden until it is reviewed by the board. Any photo that is in violation will be summarily deleted from the server, no notification, no exceptions. When a decision is reached on a photo put up for review, the poster will be contacted and informed of the decision and if the photo is approved it will be revealed. If the photo is denied it will be deleted from the server and the poster will be informed why the photo was refused.

3. Photos may not be posted for the purpose of financial gain (ex. Dress for sale). However, there is a section in "Ads and Event Announcements" in the Dance Forums where such material is acceptable.

4. Please do not post copyright material without giving credit. Even better, get the written consent of the owner.

5. The administrators will always comply with reasonable requests to remove material in which a user posted copyrighted images without permission. However, we can not be held responsible for the actions of our users.