Here are our activity feed and forum rules. Most of these “rules” are simply common sense and proper Christian conduct, but for reference here they are.
1. Nothing anti-Christian, or inappropriate for a Christian chat room or forum.
Please do not try to register any blasphemous or offensive nicknames. Also please do not engage in any blasphemous, profane, or improper talk, or any talk that is offensive to our Christian community.
Also, please don’t post any inappropriate links in your chat profile or in the forums, or in the chat rooms (e.g., links to anti-Christian sites, sites with inappropriate content, sites promoting other religions, cults, or doctrines contrary to the Bible).
Also, photos in chat profiles should be with appropriate clothing and not provocative.
2. No conduct that is offensive or counterproductive to fellowship.
We like to welcome all to Palstoo social network and community, but if anyone is not here for fellowship, but simply for disrupting fellowship, offending people, etc., then that person is not welcome.
3. No flooding. Please don’t overwhelm the activity board with your messages/posts. This is the equivalent to dominating (hogging) a conversation.
4. Please speak English so that others can understand you.
5. No inappropriate music, please. We are not making an absolute rule against all secular music/lyrics, but keep in mind this is a Christ based community.
6. Moderators
a. Do not dispute the chat room moderators.
b. The moderators are there to watch over the chat rooms, promote fellowship, and protect the chat rooms when necessary. Their job is stressful enough. 🙂 Don’t add to their stress by disputing their actions, especially if it involves someone else and not you. For example, if you see a moderator kick someone out, and wonder why, don’t worry about it. The moderator probably knows something you don’t. Have some trust in the moderators, appreciate them, and respect their oversight of the chat rooms.
c. Also please don’t be making posts in the forums about someone else’s ban. It doesn’t help!
d. And please understand that we don’t have the time or energy to talk to a hundred different people (or even a dozen different people) about somebody else’s ban. Leave it between that person and the moderator, please!
e. Please let the moderators moderate. The chat room moderators are just that: moderators. (They are not just monitors). Please allow them to moderate (i.e., change topics, steer topics, or move discussions to other rooms).. Please do not ask us how to become a moderator. Sorry we don’t accept requests to be a moderator; it is by invitation only.
7. Please do not register more than one chat nickname. Registering multiple usernames is prohibited. Each person should have only one single identity in the chat rooms and the forums. Also if you want to change your username, understand that we have to delete your current account and let you register a new one..
8. Please do not hang out where you do not belong. Please do not use the Teens chat room unless you are between 13 and 19 years old. And please do not use the Singles chat room unless you are single and 18 or older. (The other chat rooms are for general fellowship and are open to all.)
9. Please do not attempt to charter a room for your own official scheduled event/Bible-teaching/Prayer-meeting/etc.
No one should think that they can officially charter one of our chat rooms for their own special event without permission/authorization from the Admin of this site.
We make this rule for two reasons:
(1) we don’t want just anyone setting themselves up as an official teacher of the Bible here and making it seem officially organized by us; and
(2) the rooms are meant for open chat, and no room should be controlled by any particular person (except as authorized by the Admin of this site).
10. No unauthorized advertising or soliciting or recruiting.
Please come to our chat rooms and forums for fellowship, not to try to advertise anything (not even in private messages to our chat room visitors) or recruit people for anything. By “anything” we mean anything — web sites, chat rooms, forums, Facebook groups, churches, groups, doctrine, etc.
Also, please understand that some may join our social network and community just to solicit donations for their own charity (or some other Christian charity). There are so many charities people claim (e.g., orphanages in India, food for Africa, etc.) and we have no way to verify these things.
We may have a designated forum/area for certain advertisement for authorized users.
Also, no direct or indirect recruitment of Palstoo members.
11. No plagiarism please. Any material posted that is not original to that post (copied from another web page or printed source) should have appropriate foot noting crediting the original source. If the material is original to you but has been copied from or posted on another web page please reference that page to eliminate the possibility of someone mistakenly accusing you of plagiarism. Plagiarism is a criminal offense and posts not following this policy will be removed. Multiple offenses by the same user will result in removal from site.
Exception: Bible verses.
Note: We may occasionally update or add to these rules.