I hope that you enjoy becoming a part of our dog sledding community on the internet. With SledDoggin.com, The Monthly Bark, and The Barking Spot I hope to create a safe enviroment where all mushers from around the world can enjoy learning from each other's wealth of knowledge and experiences. My pledge and promise to you is that I will keep the board free of inappropriate materials, and keep this area a safe place for all ages. I can do this with your help!

This is a place where mushers of any age or experience level can participate in an online message forum and know that you can enjoy safe and moderated discussions.

[color=#BF0000][b]Forum Rules[/b][/color]
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[*]Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting. Users consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning.[/*:m]
[*]Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.[/*:m]
[*]Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Users linking to or asking for information on warez, crackz, etc. or re-printing material without permission will receive a warning and their post will be removed.[/*:m]
[*]Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.[/*:m]
[*]Members should respect the bandwidth of other users and sites. The use of inline () image tags pointing to data stored on third party systems for which the user has not received permission to link to may be removed.[/*:m]
[*]Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". That is users should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or coloured text, etc. Similarly users should not SHOUT or use excessive punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts. Users consistently abusing this will be warned.[/*:m]
[*]Members should use an appropriate, descriptive title when posting a new topic. Examples of bad titles include; "Help me!", "I'm stuck!", "I've got a problem!", etc. Examples of good titles include; "My lead dog stops to mark every tree", "How do you build a kennel door", etc.[/*:m]
[*]Members are welcome to use the test forum for general "test purposes". These may include checking signatures, testing a link or image, etc. (subject to previous points on decency, warez, etc.). Users posting in the test forum just to increase their post counts will be warned.[/*:m]
[*]Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. This includes excessive advertising of products/website. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed. All posts considered spam will be under the moderator's judgment.[/*:m]
[*]The above forum rules are also applicable to private messaging. Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings (as above) and/or the revocation of private messaging.[/*:m][/list:o]

[color=#BF0000][b]Avatars[/b][/color]
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[*]Users are permitted to utilise a gallery avatar or to link to one of their own (subject to previous points on misuse of bandwidth). User defined avatars are to be [b]no larger than 80 pixels square[/b], contain [b]no animation[/b], contain no image which attempts to portray the user as having an official status here (e.g. mimicking ranks or copying avatars of team members), [b]may not exceed 5kB (5000 Bytes) in filesize[/b] and have a consistently high availability (i.e. links to images on slow servers or those prone to failure may be removed).[/*:m]
[*]Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect to decency, and so forth.[/*:m]
[*]Users abusing these rules will be warned and/or may lose their avatar privileges.[/*:m][/list:o]

[color=#BF0000][b]Policies[/b][/color]
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[*]The Barking Spot operates a three strike policy. Users will be warned a maximum of three times for any and all offences in a three month period. If the need arises for a fourth warning a temporary ban will be put in place of between 1 to 7 days.[/*:m][/list:o]

Thank you for cooperating, and creating a fun and safe place for all of us!

Cheerful Trails,

Christian Hollingsworth
Admin