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Albania General Message Board
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Welcome to the Albania General
Message Board. Please read the
following so that the Message
Board experience may be a pleasant and productive one. If you have any
questions or comments regarding this message board
please direct them to the board admin whose
clickable address can be found on the top of this page.
BEFORE YOU POST
The Message
Board system has rules, and these rules can be
found on the bottom of any board page under the links Community Guidelines, Board FAQ, and
Board
Help. Please
take the time to read these rules because violating these rules will
result in having your post deleted or moved from the board.
These links also contain valuable information or board
behavior, advise on writing a great post, and what to do if
you
find an objectionable post on the message boards.
While all the board rules are important some of the most violated rules
are these:
1) Posting
to the wrong board.
This particular board is a locality board and all posts made to this board must concern Albania. So
please let us know how your research concerns Albania.
Posts that do not concern Albania will
be moved to the most appropriate message board.
From the guidelines:
Post
only information appropriate for a given topic. For example, if you're
posting on the "Lansing" surname board, you should be writing only in
reference to a "Lansing" connection. If you're posting on the US,
regional or international board, you must be making reference to the
appropriate location.
2) Cross posting the
same message on more than one board or multiple postings on same board.
Usually one post will be left on the most appropriate board
and all the others will be deleted.
From the FAQ:
It is not considered good
etiquette to post a query or the same information to several boards at
once and your duplicate messages may be deleted by the board staff or
admin on all but the most appropriate board. You will have the most
success if you post to one board specific to your message. Other
members will be able to use a search to locate your post
3) Identifiable
information on Living People
Identifiable information
includes,
names, physical addresses, email addresses, birth dates, phone numbers,
photos, and anything sensitive that can violate the privacy
of
living people. You can not post sensitive information on living people,
and these posts will be removed from this board as soon as it is
discovered.
From the guidelines:
Don't include identifiable information about living
people
without their direct consent, or, in the case of minors, the consent of
their parent or guardian. This includes (but is not limited to) a
person's full name, location or contact information.
If you have sensitive information that you wish to pass on
click
on the link under the user's name for contact information. If you are
paying subscriber you will be able contact anonymous users. If you are
not a paying subscriber you can post a brief reply asking that user to
contact you and give your email address. If you need help disguising
your address please contact the admin of this board for advise.
4) Commercial Links
You cannot post links or email addresses to sites
or people who charge for products or services.
These posts are deleted as soon as they are discovered.
From the guidelines:
Don't post commercial
messages, fee-for-service postings, advertising or related links, etc.
5) Copyrights
Posts that violate copyrights are deleted as soon as they are
discovered.
From the Guidelines:
Don't post anything you didn't personally create.
That
includes copyrighted material you're not authorized to distribute,
email messages, notes in GEDCOMs, etc.
Please remember that posts can be deleted or moved to a more
appropriate board without notice. If you have any questions regarding
the removal or moving of a board post you can contact the board admin
whose contact information is always found on the board information page.
From the guidelines:
We reserve the right to delete messages that violate
our Acceptable Use Policy,
move messages posted in the wrong place and edit the surname field,
subject line, etc. in any message. We reserve the right to do any of
the above without notice in order to preserve community integrity and
ensure that people can find what they're seeking.
Let's make this Message
Board a pleasant experience for all by abiding by the rules.