Jacksonville Jaguars Message Board Code of Conduct
Revised September 14, 2007

In order to maintain a friendly and constructive environment we have created a Code of Conduct that we ask posters to follow while on the Jaguars’ message boards.  

 

By way of participating as a viewer or contributor all posters agree to be bound by the terms of and adhere to this Code of Conduct (COC). 

User account and registration

In order to post registration is required.  Please note the following: Although users are allowed to pick their usernames, unsuitable usernames will be rejected by board administrators and they will immediately delete your account.  Impersonating other posters or other individuals will result in the termination of your account. 

General Rules

By registration you agree to be bound by the following:

1.      The Jaguars reserve the right to change this Code of Conduct at any point in time. 

2.      Use of this board is a privilege and not a right.

3.      The Jaguars reserve the right to limit the accessibility of the message boards, to individuals and the entire message board community, for any period of time, in their sole discretion.

4.      You agree that the webmaster, administrator and moderators of this forum have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should they see fit.  Off topic threads in football related sections will be moved, often without warning.

5.      The administrators and moderators of this forum have the right, but not the obligation, to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every message. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made to these forums express the views and opinions of the author and not the Jaguars.

6.      Violation of any of the following will subject you to warnings or suspension of your posting privileges as outlined in the Warnings & Suspensions portion of this document.

a.       You agree to never belittle, unduly criticize, offend or ridicule posters and/or members of the Jaguars.com team.

b.      Attacking an opinion is allowed, attacking a poster is not. 

c.       You agree not to post any material which is obscene, vulgar, slanderous, libelous, threatening, sexually-orientated, racially offensive, or any other material that may violate any applicable laws.

d.      Religious and/or political discussions are not allowed.

e.      No commercially motivated messages, such as advertisements or links to commercial websites are allowed. It is okay to put links in your messages if these are informative and directly relevant to a discussion. 

f.        Spamming the board will not be tolerated and may lead to immediate revocation of posting privileges.

g.      You agree not to post full text articles on the message board from Jaguars.com or any other source.

h.      You agree not to post pictures from other websites because this can use excessive bandwidth and could also violate copyrights. Any form of embedded streaming video is prohibited.

 

Board Policy on Warnings & Suspensions

Occasionally we run into the unfortunate situation where we have to suspend members for poor conduct on the message board.  A member who breaks the rules outlined above is subject to the following disciplinary action:

 

1.  First and second offense:  Warnings.

 

2.  Third offense:  One week suspension.  Suspension will be lifted by request only in the

     Reinstatement Request thread of the Suspension Forum.  You will be able to see this forum         

     only if you have been suspended.

 

3.  Fourth offense:  One week suspension.  Suspension will be lifted by request only in the

     Reinstatement Request thread of the Suspension Forum. 

 

4.  Fifth offense:  Permanent ban

 

Exceptions to the above:

 

1.  If you have been previously banned and have returned under a different username you will be permanently banned without warning.

 

2.  Posting of any pornographic material is grounds for an immediate permanent ban.

 

3.  Trolling, as defined by the moderators, by opposing fans is subject to an immediate and permanent ban.

Moderators

The moderators on this forum are volunteers and therefore cannot be expected to be online 24 hours a day. If you feel a post is offensive and/or violates this COC, please report it to the moderators by using the report button or by sending a PM to the moderators. One of the moderators will then resolve the issue as soon as possible. 


Copyright Issues

When posting on the message board, remember to give credit to the authorship and Copyright of any references or articles that are linked to and/or included in said post, and take note of any “Copyright,” "All Rights Reserved" or similar Notices on Website Pages/Articles.

 

Unless otherwise and previously arranged, for all content submitted to any part of Jaguars.com message board which the person submitting such content does not retain ownership, the submitting entity represents and  warrants that he or she is the owner of such Content, and hereby grants Jaguars.com the world-wide royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate and distribute the Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter developed for the full term of any copyright that may exist in such Content. You further represent and warrant that all material and content you post at Jaguars.com does not infringe or violate the copyrights, trademarks, intellectual property right  or any other of any third party.  You agree that you are solely responsible for all content material that you post to Jaguars.com and further agree to indemnify and defend the Jacksonville Jaguars from all claims, including attorneys fees, resulting from any breach of such warranty. The submitting entity also permits any visitors and/or posters of the Jaguars.com message boards to access, view, store or reproduce the Content for that visitor and/or posters personal use. Subject to this grant, the owner of Content placed on the Jaguars.com message boards retains any and all rights which may exist in such Content.

What does this Copyright section mean in plain English?

We want to be sure all posters respect the copyrights of third parties. We are also safeguarding ourselves against people who want to sue the Jaguars when a poster copies/pastes copyright protected material on the Jaguars.com web site or message board. We do this by requiring the poster to grant us the right to use the material, and guaranty to us that he has the right to grant such rights and is not using materials owned or copyrighted by someone else. Jaguars.com does not own anything a poster posts on the message boards, and therefore does not claim to own what a poster posts on one of the message boards.