Investors In Veteran's Forum Guidelines
Investors In Veteran Forum is not a pre-moderated forum. Our policy is to keep intervention to a minimum and let the conversation flow. That said, we're also here to make sure that organisations that support veterans' lives are made easier and not not harder, so where necessary, we will use our discretion to delete posts (or ban posters) if it seems to us that doing so is in keeping with this aim.
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We do have a few forum rules to make sure we keep the Investors in Veterans Forum a good place to hang out:
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No personal attacks
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No posts that break the law
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No trolling, misleading or deliberately inflammatory behaviour
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No troll hunting
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No spamming, No pornography
You can report any issues relating to any of the above to us using the report button or directly to us via: info@investorsinveterans.com
Remember, we do not pre-moderate posts. We rely on our members to let us know about any posts that break our Guidelines.
Important information about how we use your data can be found within our privacy policyor alternatively in relation to the forum please click here.
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Accepted Courtesy | Post deletions| Swearing| Spamming| Deleting a thread you have started| Trolls and troublemakers| Disclosures of abuse/Safeguarding
Accepted Courtesy:
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We'd appreciate it if you could use the same courtesy when posting messages on The Veteran Support Forum as you would use when speaking to someone face to face. Please do bear in mind the difficulties we or others maybe experiencing, and if there's one thing all of us could do with, it's some moral support.
Post deletions:
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We're all for freedom of speech. That said, we'll remove posts we consider to contain personal attacks, to break the law and/or to be obscene, racist, sexist, disablist, ageist, homophobic or transphobic, once they are brought to our attention. We will also delete any posts that we think are just seriously unpleasant (please note that any subsequent posts repeating the words in the deleted post may be deleted, too).
If a whole thread is deleted, please don't start a new one repeating and/or rehashing everything that's been deleted. Most Investors In Veterans forum users will consider that to be very bad manners - and, of course, it's highly likely that the new thread will be deleted, too.
Swearing and offensive language:
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It's not our policy to delete swearwords (we're all adults, after all) but we do draw the line at obscenity, racist, ageist, disablist, homophobic or transphobic language, and wording that is truly beyond the pale.
Posting links and spamming:​
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We have no problem with people posting the odd link to other sites/blogs that other posters might find useful or interesting. But we'll delete anyone's attempts to spam the boards with links, as a way of promoting their own product, services, survey or e-petition, as it annoys our members.
If you'd like to know more about promoting your product on Investors In Veterans Veteran support Forum, please do contact us directly if you would like to advertise on our forum.
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We allow fundraising for registered charities, CIO’s and CIC’s to be promoted on our Veteran support Forum Boards - these threads should be posted on the Fundraising Notice Boards on the ExFor+ forum www.exforplus.org/forum/fundraising. This is in the interest of protecting our users as we aren't able to vouch for or endorse individuals running crowdfunding campaigns or anything along those lines.
Deleting a thread you have started:
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We don't generally delete whole threads; it's frustrating for those who've taken the time to write responses to see them removed. That said, we're here to make people's lives easier, so if you have a pressing reason for wanting a thread you started to be deleted, please report it to us and we'll take a look.
Trolls and troublemakers:
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As we hope you've already found out, the vast majority of Investors In Veterans Forum discussions are genuinely informative, supportive and friendly (even when we all disagree with each other!) but, from time to time, we are visited by trolls, for whom friendly supportive chat is definitely not on the agenda.
If you suspect someone of being a troll, please don't troll hunt (accuse them publicly on the discussion thread). If you're wrong, you could cause untold hurt; if you're right, you'll merely be giving them the kind of attention they're after.
Instead, report your suspicions to us and we'll check them out.
Please bear in mind that we'd rather err on the side of being taken in than of accusing a genuine poster who's in need of support of being a troll.
For more on this, do have a read of our separate Policy on Trolls and Troublemakers.
A note about disclosures of abuse/Safeguarding:
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We urge all our members to point anyone disclosing abuse to the appropriate authorities and/or seek professional support and advice in real life. We have a directory of suitable organisations with whom we are already working with on the bottom of the ExFor+ webpage www.exforplus.org, We may also, where appropriate, post on the relevant discussion thread and link to these resources ourselves.
As we set out in our Website Privacy Policy,we do not, as a rule, pass on any of the information you have registered with us, unless you specifically consent to us doing so or we are specifically required to by law. However, on rare occasions where there appears to be a clear need to safeguard the welfare of a Investors In Veterans forum user and/or his/her family, it may be necessary to contact relevant authorities about a clearly identifiable member and his/her posts on Investors In Veterans Forum.