The forum guidelines for posting are important and should be read and accepted before you choose to participate. Pouchons Forums encourage contributors who are courteous, polite and respectful. We discourage those who choose to behave in a disrespectful and/or irresponsible manner. Pouchons, its staff and volunteer moderators will take appropriate steps to ensure discussions adhere to these guidelines.

In general, we will leave it to you, the forums, to manage your own conduct. We ask that you treat other forum participants with respect. Please remember that this is a public venue read by many people of all ages, from around the world, spanning all walks of life.

If you have any questions regarding the appropriateness of a forum discussion post, you may discuss that with the author of the post. Cite the appropriate portion of the guidelines if necessary. 

Forum moderators are generous volunteers that give up their time to help build a better community. Occasionally, our forum moderators will need to use their discretion to determine the best course of action. Pouchons has entrusted these volunteers to do what is best for the global community. Volunteers assist with focusing topics of discussion and will gently enforce guidelines, as needed. They can edit/delete posts, move, close or delete topics, and temporarily moderate users’ posts.  Do not attempt to engage them in direct combat.

Discussion forums are moderated to preserve the spirit of an open, interactive discussion without offending participants. Please understand that we are not attempting to censor any messages or opinions. We (Pouchons, Pouchons’ staff, and the volunteer moderators) reserve the right to edit/remove inappropriate messages, or to lock a discussion thread. Before taking any of these actions, a moderator will attempt to steer the discussion back to the topic, if this is possible and appropriate. The additional step of editing or deleting a post will only be taken in appropriate circumstances. Again, the intent is not to censor legitimate discussion or to change the meaning of any post. If we edit your post and you do not like the changes, notify us and we can delete your post. Examples of posts that may be edited or deleted include those containing profanity, chain letters and other spam postings.

Other examples are included below.

Here are some things to keep in mind when posting:

1. Forum courtesy: Please treat Pouchons, volunteers, and fellow social network members on these boards with courtesy and respect. Whether a community member has one post or 5,000 posts, they should be treated fairly.

2. Foul language and obscene images will not be tolerated.

3. Personal attacks and inflammatory behavior will not be tolerated. If you want to praise or criticize, give examples as to why it is good or bad. General attacks on a person or idea will not be tolerated.

4. Keep on topic: Responses to a particular thread should be on-topic and pertain to the discussion. Users should use the New Topic button to start a new discussion which would otherwise be off-topic in the current thread. Threads that veer off topic may be closed by a moderator.

5. Spam: Posting the same message, or an unsolicited commercial message, to one or many topics or boards is considered spam. Duplicate messages may be deleted or consolidated by our moderators. Please do your best to post new topics to the appropriate forum board. Moderators can take action when a thread should be moved to a more appropriate section.

6. We generally do not allow surveys to be conducted using this forum.

7. Personal classified advertising is permitted in the ‘Classifed Ads’ forum. Please note that Pouchons is not involved in any related transactions.

8. Any messages you post in these discussion forums will remain available to the public for as long as this discussion board is online. Once you have posted your message, it will stay online. Please post carefully and with due consideration to the content of your post. We will not edit the content you wrote unless it does not conform to the forum guidelines. In the unlikely even that we do edit your post and you do not like the changes, we can delete the message at your request.

9. If someone has posted copyrighted material or otherwise illegal material, please notify Pouchons so that we may take appropriate action.

10. Abuse of this forum will be not be tolerated.


Contact Us: Our main email address is: support@pouchons.com
Comments specifically about the staff or one of the volunteers can be sent to: abuse-en@pouchons.com

Additional Terms: The Pouchons Forums are further governed by the POUCHONS.COM SITE TERMS OF USE AGREEMENT, the terms of which are hereby incorporated into these guidelines by reference. The Terms of Use Agreement may be found here: http://www.pouchons.com/terms/