Before leaving your first post (a post is any message on a forum), please read the rules. It will take just a few minutes.
1. Forex Forum investsocial.com is an international forum of traders. Promotion of someone’s national, religious, ethnic or political views is not appropriate here.
Those who stir up national, ethnic, religious or political hatred will be banned with no notice.
Besides, those who support such activities via like functions or forum reputation can also be banned.
Humiliating words or their distorted forms in regard to various countries and nationalities are prohibited.
It is forbidden to create user profiles that show their national, religious, ethnic, or political views through setting corresponding attributes or their distorted form such as avatars, signatures, and profile lines.
2. A user undertakes not to post information that is patently false, defamatory, and/or contravenes the law of the country of citizenship.
3. A forum participant undertakes to respect other participants. Threats, insults, discrimination, personal defamation, foul language and its distorted spelling are prohibited.
4. Registration and /or use of multiple accounts (nicknames) by one person is prohibited. Additionally, it is forbidden to offer an already registered user to register again as a referral.
5. The administration reserves the right to deny access to the forum for a user with a nickname that looks or sounds similar to an existing one, contains advertising, contains a name of a commercial project, or does not meet ethical standards.
6. The language of the Forex Forum investsocial.com is English. It is prohibited to post:
- illiterate messages that are hard to be read or messages in foreign languages;
- senseless messages that contain only emoticons or incoherent jumble of letters;
- irrelevant messages (flood) or needless answers to messages of other users;
- plagiarism (copying of other people's texts, materials from the Internet and the forum, without citing the source of origin).
7. Duplication of topics/messages or multiple posting of identical/similar messages is prohibited.
8. Materials from outer sources (copy-paste) should be arranged as quotations (i.e. framed by quotation tags [QUOTE]...[/QUOTE]).
The source of information should be indicated with a bbcode: [URL="link"]source[/URL]
9. It is prohibited to split a text of a message into several short messages that are published in a short period of time (serial messages). Users can edit their messages within 60 minutes after publication.
10. Forum rules apply to all types of texts and images, published anywhere on the forum.
If forum participants violate the forum rules, the moderator can issue a warning to them. Having received the third warning, users will be able to post messages in the pre-moderation mode for a period of 5 days. Pre-moderation means that messages are published only after approval by the moderator.
A user who disagrees with the moderator's decision should contact him or her via a private message.
If participants violate the rules for which they have already received warning, they may be banned with no notice or get limited access to the forum functions.
11. It is forbidden to write tags in outsized fonts, use text markers excessively (italic, bold, underlining, highlighting), as well as writing in ALL CAPS if there is no urgent necessity for it. The forum users acknowledge that the notion of urgent necessity is subjective, so any non-standard layout of the message text can be regarded as a violation of forum rules.
12. The maximum length of a signature is 4 lines. The maximum number of external links in the signature is 2. The maximum font size is 2.
If forum participants install a widget for monitoring a trading account, its dimensions should not exceed 40px in height (the so-called low widget type).
The maximum banner size in a signature is 120 x 500 px.
The maximum total height of a signature is 150 px.
13. If images are uploaded from outer sources (photo hosting), their size should not exceed 800x600 px and 200 KB.
14. Unauthorized advertising in unsuitable sections is prohibited.Spam (the intended multiple publication of links to the same site in the form of private or public messages) is prohibited.
15. Neither explicit nor implicit advertising of websites and/or companies that are not partners of the forum is allowed.
16. Advertising of forums, chats, and social networks for traders is forbidden.
17. It is prohibited to place software that misapplies bugs in brokers’ software, as well as discuss and promote such methods.
18. It is prohibited to place one’s commercial offers in other people's threads.
19. Advertising of Rebate services that offer refund of more than 1.5 pips is prohibited.
20. It is prohibited to distribute illegal software and discuss methods of hacking.
21. The forum administration reserves the right to ask to install a banner of the forum/portal on the main page of the website, which is advertised in any way on the forum. This condition is not mandatory if there is no request from the administration, as every case is considered individually. The presence of a forum/portal banner on a website advertised in any way on the forum does not mean unconditional approval of its advertising; in every specific case the situation is considered individually. The permission for advertising of a website can be canceled in the event that eventually the website is filled with content that the forum administration considers as unacceptable.
22. Any copyright materials posted on the forum becomes the property of the forum. The user who personally posted such materials does not have the right to demand to remove or correct it in the future.
23. The forum administration reserves the right to remove /correct threads, posts, threads’ closing, as well as correct /delete signatures, avatars, photos, and users’ public messages without prior notice and/or explanation of reasons.
24. The administration of the forum reserves the right to move threads/post without notification and/or explanation of reasons if it considers the initial section of threads/posts unsuitable.
25. It is prohibited to arguе about the fact that a forum user takes part in a bonus program or other programs/campaigns/competitions held by the forum and/or its partners.
26. It is forbidden to ask forum users to confirm their qualification by providing evidence of trading on their personal trading accounts. The Advertisement and PAMM accounts sections are the exceptions.
27. The forum administration does not assume the role of arbitrator or guarantor in the commercial relations between forum users. All such relationships are made between the forum participants solely at their own risk.
28. It is not allowed to design user profiles that call for liking posts, using an avatar, signature, or profile lines.
29. Users declare their copyright of the information posted on the forum from their account. It is not allowed to give one’s account for use to other people. Claims like "someone has taken my account, so I refuse to be responsible for the contents of posts," are not accepted.
30. Deliberate misprints of users' nicknames are not allowed. To avoid confusion, the administration recommends that you copy the nickname of a user in the original spelling.
31. It is forbidden to use names of countries in nicknames.
32. GIF images cannot be used as avatars.
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