Televisionaries

We’re not normally too rule-obsessed at Thinkbox but we’ve set some house rules for our Televisionaries blog so that everyone can get the most out of it. What we’re after is good-humoured, informed debate. We want contributors to offer their considered opinions, whether they are positive or negative, but we ask that you please stick to the rules outlined here so that the blog is as enjoyable and constructive as possible. By using this site you are deemed to have accepted these rules.

The general rules:
• Please always act in a good natured and community spirited way. It is unacceptable to behave in an anti-social manner.
• Users are restricted to one registration each. Registering multiple registrations may be judged an attempt to mislead other users and may result in a ban.
• Please do alert the site moderators to any content that breaks the house rules, such as offensive material. However, please do not abuse the complaints system. If a user repeatedly abuses the complaints system, we may terminate their account.
• Apart from failing posts and articles which breach the house rules, Thinkbox reserves the right to remove or edit posts when they stray off topic or become too long.
• You must be over 16 to contribute to the Televisionaries blog
• By sharing any contribution with Thinkbox you agree to grant to Thinkbox, free of charge, permission to use the material in any way it wants
• You may only make written contributions that are your own work or to which you have the copyright or other permission to distribute electronically. You may not violate, plagiarise, or infringe on the rights of third parties including copyright, trademark, trade secret, privacy, personal, publicity or proprietary rights. If attributed and in context, using a couple of short paragraphs of text from another source may be considered OK.

Thinkbox also reserves the right to not post contributions which:
• Are considered likely to defame, offend, disturb, inconvenience, provoke, or attack others.
• Are racist, obscene, sexist, homophobic, sexually explicit, abusive or otherwise objectionable.
• Contain swear words or other language likely to offend.
• Are deemed to constitute harassment (such as repeatedly posting personal or offensive comments that are abusive, threatening, offensive, obscene, harassing, harmful, inflammatory, racist or otherwise objectionable about individual members of the public or people who work for Thinkbox may be considered harassment). We reserve the right not to post such messages and to take action against those responsible.
• Break the law or condone or encourage unlawful activity. This includes but is not limited to breach of copyright, defamation, contempt of court and incitement to commit a crime.
• Advertise products or services for profit or gain.
• Are seen to impersonate someone else.
• Are written in anything other than English
• Describe or encourage activities which could endanger the safety or well-being of others.
• Are considered to be ‘spam’, that is contributions containing the same, or similar, content sent in multiple times.
• Are considered to be off-topic.
• Contain any photos or unapproved html coding.

If you don’t comply with the house rules:
• You will be sent an email informing you that your contribution is unsuitable and has been failed.
• Anyone who seriously or repeatedly breaks the rules may be banned from the site
• Thinkbox reserves the right to reject, edit, move or delete any contribution, at any time, for any reason.
• Thinkbox also reserves the right to change these rules at any time. All posts must observe the rules current at the time of posting.

Registered contributor names will be failed if they:
• Contain website or email addresses.
• Contain contact information such as phone numbers, postcodes, etc.
• Impersonate someone else or appear to do so.
• Contain swear words or are otherwise objectionable and in breach of these rules.

Links to other websites:
• Thinkbox does not endorse the content of websites linked to or from its site and is not responsible for the content or actions of those sites.