Forum Posting Guidelines / Terms Of Service

Terms of Service by using this site you automatically agree to follow all our forum posting guidelines and membership rules.

Members must be 18 years of age or older and provide a verifiable email address.

Full Site Membership is granted upon review by admins.

Forum Posting Guidelines:
In order to encourage quality postings, the following guidelines are rules to be followed by all HipForums site members.

Illegal Postings: Postings that are illegal, such as underage sex, prostitution, drug dealing or other illegal activities, images or information are not allowed. You accept full responsibility for what you post as we cannot be held liable for the activities of others on our sites. We will cooperate with the authorities should they investigate your illegal activities on our sites. Remember, Big Brother is watching everything on the Internet!

Duplicate/Repetitive Postings: Duplicate postings with identical or similar text are not allowed. Duplicate postings will be removed.

Multiple Personalities: Although we allow you to register multiple personalities, you may not use more than one personality in a single thread.

Flaming/Trolling/Stalking: Flames are posts intended to insult and provoke. Repeated posts directed with hostility at a particular person or group of people on this site will be cause for banning. People who endlessly discuss other members in negative terms and insult them regularly are TROLLS.
We ban trolls. Individuals who chronically troll, argue endlessly in loops, flame others, attack other site members or staff for no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a discussion will be banned.

Hate Speech is not allowed.

Disinformation is not allowed. Posting quotes from known fake news sources and arguing about them in endless circles is cause for banning permanently.

Hook Ups: We have For Subscribers Only section where site Supporters can go have fun. If you don't support the site, and you're not the age of consent, you have no business asking for hook ups thru this website. Unsolicited or unwanted sexual come-ons will be deleted, and you are also subject to banning if you continue to break this rule.

Stalking: is not allowed. Stalking is defined as targeting another member and following them around the forums and confronting them in various ways (sexual advances, threatening, arguing, disrespecting, soliciting, etc.) in numerous threads or PMs. If stalked or threatened, use the report button or contact a moderator.

Obscene/Pornographic/Violent postings are not allowed.

Avatars with images of genitals or breasts are not allowed. Nude images are only allowed in the Sex and Love forum, and it has special rules posted there also. Link Here:
The Rules that cover all the Love and Sex section

Off Topic Postings/Thread Titles: Often people post remarks that have nothing to do with the subject of the forum or thread. Occasionally threads are deliberately taken off topic to advance an opposing agenda or disrupt the discussion. These posts will be moved or deleted at the discretion of the moderator. If the user continues posting off-topic after being warned, they may be banned. We urge all members wishing to discuss a new topic to start a new thread in the appropriate forum. In addition we request that all threads in public forums have a title that accurately reflect the subject of the thread. Thus titles like "guess what?" or "hummmm..." are unacceptable and may be deleted at the moderator's discretion. If you want your thread to be viewed by the most people, you should always have the subject in the title.

Profile Posts: Due to the overuse of profile posts for unsolicited sexual comments and solicitations (asking for sex, etc.) this is no longer allowed. Posting rude comments in profile posts is offensive to others and will get you banned.

In General: Threads and posts that contain hate speech, harassment and trolling are all prohibited. We do not allow discussions of torture, incest, fascist or Nazi ideology, or expressing racist viewpoints.

Spamming: Those who come here and post numerous links to other commercial websites, forums, chatrooms or communities, without actually contributing any content to this website will be banned without notice. It's fine to post an occasional interesting link to another website, in the context of a thread's subject, but to only do that or to do it repeatedly is not allowed. If you have your own website, you can put the URL in your profile and a link will be posted to your site in every post you make so there is no reason to add it to your posts, signature or PMs.

Banning: People who violate these forum guidelines repeatedly are subject to banning. Warnings may given before bannings. Once someone has been banned from the site, we do not allow complaints about it. Once banned, we are done with that individual, and no amount of complaining from other members will help. We don't need to justify our bans. This only causes more work for the moderators which is usually the reason for the person being banned in the first place. Those who complain about a banishment are subject to being banned themselves.

Temporary Bannings: Sometimes a member gets banned temporarily, as a warning. If the member returns with the same bad attitude, the ban becomes permanent.

Status: When you signup to the HipForums you are our guest and as long as you respect our rules you will become a full member after administrator approval. Until then you have more restrictions than our members, in that some forums are only available to full members. Those who have chosen to join our community and support what we stand for will be granted full membership and privileges. Those who disrespect our rules will be banned at our discretion, regardless of their status on this site.

RESPECT: The Hip Forums has an excellent staff of experienced, volunteer moderators who work very hard to keep the site free from spam and trolls. In order to do their job efficiently and effectively they require RESPECT from our members for the difficult and often thankless tasks they must perform daily. They've dedicated countless hours to keeping the forums running smoothly and an attractive place to hangout for so many people. So we won't tolerate ANY disrespect for our mods and admins, and those who do will be dealt with as trolls. If you have a problem with a mod, we suggest you first contact them thru PM and try to work out the issue. If you cannot, you can report the mod to an admin for further consideration of the problem. In no case will a public attack on our staff be tolerated.

Other than these restrictions, people are free to discuss whatever they choose. Let's all just be civil about it!

Please let us know ASAP if there are any postings that violate these guidelines, especially if they offend you! Use the Report button or contact a moderator.

Special Notice about posting news stories:

Copy and paste a few words from the story so we know a bit more. Then place the link.

You should try to add some commentary from yourself to this news article you are posting. Please tell us briefly why you think this new story is important, liked, wowed, disagreed with, shocked at or simply say "omg check this out".. It helps with our discussion flow and allows us to weed out spam bots.

A brief quote of a few paragraphs from the story really helps us know why this important before we click the link to go offsite.

Lastly, post the link to the story.

If you wrote an original news story you must state it is your own story or opinion, and welcome discussion about it. Please stick to the facts if it is news.

Please contact any moderator by personal message if you need clarification.

 

A special note for new members. If you came here to post nude images of your self or anyone with genitals, nipples or unsavory body parts you will be banned. Permanently.

 

Due to the overuse of profile posts for unsolicited sexual comments and solicitations (asking for sex, etc.) this is no longer allowed.

Posting rude comments in profile posts is offensive to others and will get you banned.

 

A bit of clarification is needed here.
People who endlessly discuss other members in negative terms and insult them regularly are TROLLS.

We ban trolls.

We don't discuss banned members. Once banned, they are gone. Further discussion simply wastes moderators time, and just furthers the trolls work of dividing the site members and staff.

Sometimes a member gets banned temporarily, as a warning. If the member returns with the same bad attitude, the ban becomes permanent.

We offer a place to discuss pretty much everything under the sun, but have a few rules designed to keep the peace.

Please review the site rules if you haven't read them recently. They may have changed over time.

 

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And the legal words are:

The providers ("we", "us", "our") of the service provided by this web site ("Service") are not responsible for any user-generated content and accounts ("Content"). Content submitted express the views of their author only.

You agree to not use the Service to submit or link to any Content which is defamatory, abusive, hateful, threatening, spam or spam-like, likely to offend, contains adult or objectionable content, contains personal information of others, risks copyright infringement, encourages unlawful activity, or otherwise violates any laws.

All Content you submit or upload may be reviewed by staff members. All Content you submit or upload may be sent to third-party verification services (including, but not limited to, spam prevention services). Do not submit any Content that you consider to be private or confidential.

We reserve the rights to remove or modify any Content submitted for any reason without explanation. Requests for Content to be removed or modified will be undertaken only at our discretion. We reserve the right to take action against any account with the Service at any time.

You are granting us with a non-exclusive, permanent, irrevocable, unlimited license to use, publish, or re-publish your Content in connection with the Service. You retain copyright over the Content.

These terms may be changed at any time without notice.

If you do not agree with these terms, please do not register or use this Service. If you wish to close your account, please contact us.