Hi All,

I'd like to welcome all new members to "Life In Queensland" and would like to take this opportunity to remind all members of the forum rules and recommendations

Forum Etiquette

• Thank you goes a long way - If someone has taken the time to discuss, and share their experiences with you then please be appreciative of that and thank them accordingly.
• We don't walk in their shoes - If someone is offering to share their experiences please do not belittle them, or make personal comments, or judgements, about their situation. It is not helpful to anyone, and only detracts from the discussion at hand.

Recommendations

• Please try and avoid placing your email address in any posts you make. There are automated programs (spambots) that trawl the internet, harvesting email address's which are then used to send unsolicited spam. As an alternative to using your email address, we recommend you use the forum's Private Messaging system when asking other members to contact you. When you receive a PM, you will be notified by email.

Forum Rules

1. "Life In Queensland" is not the appropriate medium for personal or private vendettas. This forum should not be used to attempt to resolve personal problems or to 'name & shame' fellow members, migration agents, service providers or anyone else and posts that fall into this category may be deleted by moderators where it is considered necessary. Please email the company directly to attempt to resolve these issues in the first instance.
2. Out of respect for the Original Poster, please try to keep postings on-topic, do not steer the thread in another direction without good reason. If required please start a new topic within a relevant forum.
3. Please use the most descriptive title possible when creating a new thread, ensuring you search the forums first to ensure posts are not duplicated. Duplicate posts / threads may be deleted or merged.
4. Be respectful to your fellow members, moderators and administrators, this is a friendly and great environment; we wish to keep it that way so please treat others as you would like to be treated and please respect other members rights to express an opinion which may differ to your own.
5. Moderators may, if felt appropriate move your post if it becomes more relevant / pertinent to another part of the forum.
6. Please remember that moderators are volunteer helpers that are here to ensure the forum runs smoothly. Please respect this if they have to contact you/edit/remove or add additional comments to your threads or posts.
7. Please keep your language clean and decent. This include personal inflammatory language as well as obscenities.
8. You agree not to hold "Life In Queensland" or its members liable for anything stated within the forums and that messages posted at this site are the sole opinion and responsibility of the poster.
9. Postings that are deliberately designed with the intention of driving traffic to a member's site, affiliated sites or other social networking sites/forums will be removed or edited, as the moderator(s) feels appropriate.
10. Trolling will not be tolerated. (For the purposes of this forum, a 'troll' is defined as someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages on the forum, or chat room, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.
11. Members are only permitted one account. If you have forgotten your username and wish to create a new account, or you require a secondary account for another family member, please contact admin in the first instance.
12. Members are not to post obscene, vulgar, racist, offensive, or illegal posts, links, or images. Any Posts / visitor messages / Private messages / avatars / Photos containing such content will be removed and could lead to a warning or a ban if necessary.
13. Advertising of goods for sale is allowed, however, this is limited to the forum entitled "For Sale".
14. Advertising of private "lease breaks" is allowed. These are to be placed in the Rental & Real Estate section. (We may require proof/confirmation from the agent that the advertised property is a 'lease break')

Business Rules

1. Before advertising any business or service on "Life In Queensland", please contact the administrator. Any posts deemed to be advertising material without the consent of the administrator may be deleted.
2. Signatures are a great way of promoting your online business and we encourage their use on the board and within profiles. However, please keep signatures to a maximum of two lines, do not include large images, large text or banners. One external link to a business website is allowed.
3. Service providers using this function purely to promote their own wares without adding value to the community are likely to be removed and/or edited.
4. Business Members (& their employees) are prohibited from starting threads with the sole purpose of promoting their business, product or service.