Rules & Guidelines: Read This First Before Posting

[Elf Lady]

You knew there had to be rules, right?

Ok, short and brief.

Disclaimer
This board is in no way affiliated with Orlando Bloom, New Line, Disney, Warner Bros, Universal, Fox Movies or Orlando's agents.

We maintain a Board that is respectful to Orlando Bloom, his family and his choices and this is reflected in the content. The views and opinions of members do not necessarily reflect those of the board owners, administrators and moderators and this is especially relevant to note where links are followed from this site to other places on the internet. OL does not endorse nor promote such sites or views expressed therein. By using or viewing this forum you agree to hold elflady.com blameless and without responsibility for any injury or trauma experienced.

No copyright infringement intended, all pictures property of original owners. All altered images property of respective owners. Copyrights and trademarks for books, films, articles, magazines and other promotional materials are held by their respective owners and their use is allowed under the fair use clause of the Copyright Law.

Rules
1. Effective August 12, 2004, you must be 17 years of age or older to register. Please note that should someone register with a false birthdate in order to bypass the restriction but then later posts in a manner that betrays their obvious age, the membership will be deleted.

2. No flaming of board members or ANYONE in Orlando's life.

3. No gossip or speculation about Orlando or the people close to him. No girlfriend/wife bashing (that includes on-the-sly snarky remarks). Period. That means absolutely no assumptions about Orlando's motives. Unless you can prove you know him personally and have his permission to discuss his private life, it is off limits.
No posting of "news" you find on the net or elsewhere that is gossip/speculation.
No posting of Twitter stories/rumours etc as these cannot be verified, with the exception of pictures.
If you find a Tweet you think is worth posting at OLove, with a reliable source, and/or with a verified account, and/or with an attached pic you can PM our newshound: Interconnector.
The decision to post or not post is up to the moderators.

4. No obscenities. Links to sites/boards inappropriate for ages 13 and under must be accompanied by appropriate warnings and ratings.

5. Please use the board's search utility to see if a thread or subject exists BEFORE starting a new one. In addition, please do your fellow members the courtesy of reading through an informational thread before asking questions that may have already been answered earlier.

6. No trolling, no spamming, no post slutting, trolls and spammers will be banned. Spamming or harrassment through the PM system or in the chat room is also a cause for banning. Post slutting is the practice of posting one word or short phrases that do not contribute to the discussion for the express purpose of increasing post count.

7. Effective Oct 16, 2004 we have opened a forum for member's to share their fan fiction endeavors. The full rules are located in the Fan Fiction Posting Guidelines located in the Member's Only forum, accessible to members with 20 or more posts. In brief, the rules are:

Nothing inappropriate for ages 13 and under except in the Mature Fan Fiction section, and absolutely NO Real Person stories are allowed (i.e. no stories featuring Orlando or other actors). Only character based fan fiction or original work is allowed. Ratings are based on the MPAA's system and they are summarized here in the Rating System for Artwork and Fiction thread.

For fan fic recommendations, you may link to stories outside this board in this thread, Fanfiction Links and each recommendation must be accompanied by rating and warning, if applicable.

8. Please do NOT use Orlando or Bloom or any permutation of this name (i.e. Orli, OB, ob, ojbb or anything the like), in your username. Also, no member names consisting of any characters Orlando has portrayed (i.e. Legolas Greenleaf, Will Turner, Drew Baylor, etc.). You cannot register with just a series of numbers and symbols. This board's language is English, therefore you must post using English.

9. Public challenges to a Moderator's decision is inappropriate. If you have issues with a decision, please use the PM system to address your concerns. Please note: the rules are not open for debate.

10. Please do not post links to Live Journals, Greatest Journals, etc. that are not your own unless you have obtained permission from the owner. Please see this thread for more details.

11. Please do not register multiple times with different usernames. This just clutters up our database and adds to the confusion. If you want to change your username for some reason, send a request and we will most likely accomodate you.

Posting Guidelines

All new members are initially on moderation. That means that new member posts are subject to review by a moderator and as such, may not appear for several hours after you post. If the post is inappropriate in nature, it will be deleted so if you don't see your post appear after a day, you can assume it was deleted for cause.

1. Basic tenet: we are supportive of Orlando. So if you can't say anything nice, DON'T post it. That doesn't mean you can't critique his work, but do not post negative things about him personally or people in his life.

2. Do not hotlink to images from other fan sites unless you have the permission of the owner to do so. That is considered bandwidth theft. You may post a link directing others to the image. The obvious exception to this is that you may hotlink images from my Legolas Greenleaf site.

We also suggest members try one of the myriad free image hosting services such as PhotoBucket.com, it's easy to use.

3. Please credit your sources, it's only proper to give credit where credit is due. If you wish to use a member's artwork/avatar/sig image/manip, please contact that member privately and obtain permission. However, if the source is an LJ or other kind of journal, please do not provide a direct link unless it is your own since most journals are private and there are no rating systems (i.e. parental guidance indicators) on those sites.

4. Do try to keep the netspeak/teenspeak to a minimum as sometimes it's very difficult to decipher what exactly is being said in a post! In addition, please refrain from posting messages that LoOk LiKe ThIs SiNcE iT iS vErY h@Rd To De©IpHeR what is being written. And please, do not abuse the font sizes and capitals when posting on a regular basis. It's fine for emphasis or if you're wishing someone a Happy Birthday greeting but if every one of your posts contains huge fonts or is in capital letters then it gets a bit tiresome.

5. As a general rule, we do not support or endorse fan petitions of any kind. Please do not start threads about signing petitions. They will be locked and then deleted after a few days.

6. Respect your fellow posters.

7. Please post in English.

Avatars
Please go to this thread for information on how to choose an avatar.

Signature Images
Please go to this thread for information on how to insert signature images. Please try to keep your entire signature area to around 250x600 pixels and a max of 3 images (if your avatar is not an animation, then one of the images allowed in the sig line can be an animation) in the sig line. For example, an image area of this size with a couple of lines of text below is acceptable.


Pithy saying or quote
Signature by someone you love.


Custom User Titles
Members can now enter their own custom user title. We only ask that members keep it clean and appropriate for ages 13 and under. You can find instructions on how to set the custom user title in this thread.

We reserve the right to edit and or remove offensive, inappropriate or plain old nonsense riddled posts at any time and without notice. We may also place members on moderation without notice should it become necessary. These rules and guidelines may be revised from time to time at our discretion.

That's it for the important stuff!

Enjoy!

EL and Serein

[Serein]

In light of the recent change in the criteria for registration, please take a moment to read the forum rules before registering. Thank you.

[Elf Lady]

I have updated the rules, please read.

[Elf Lady]

Tiny update to the Posting Guidelines, #4.

[Elf Lady]

Added Rule #10. Was already a long standing request posted in the News forum quite some time ago but we only just realized that it was not included in the Rules & Posting Guidelines. Sorry about that!

[Serein]

Bumping this up to remind new registrants to PLEASE read before posting.

Also, rules have been updated.

[Serein]

Please make note of an amendment to the rules.

11. Please do not register multiple times with different usernames. This just clutters up our database and adds to the confusion. If you want to change your username for some reason, send a request and we will most likely accomodate you.

[KiwiGirl]

Thread Bumped!!

[KiwiGirl]

Please could all members reacquaint themselves with the board rules.

Thank you

[nuit]

2. Do not hotlink to images from other fan sites unless you have the permission of the owner to do so. That is considered bandwidth theft. You may post a link directing others to the image. The obvious exception to this is that you may hotlink images from my Legolas Greenleaf site.

Bump
We have become aware of increased hotlinking to pictures from this site. We are very keen to share but hotlinking can cause a big problem for the poster - most pic sites pay according to the amount of bandwidth. So it's not so much about stealing pictures but more about expenses. Apart from that too many hits can bring small servers down.
It's especially not nice if someone hotlinks to a photobucket account which is not his/her own. Free accounts have a very limited storage and bandwidth, so this could actually cause accounts to fail as their bandwidth is exceeded.

Just a reminder to think before you post!

[KiwiGirl]

3. No gossip or speculation about Orlando or the people close to him. No girlfriend bashing (that includes on-the-sly snarky remarks). Period. That means absolutely no assumptions about Orlando's motives. Unless you can prove you know him personally and have his permission to discuss his private life, it is off limits. No posting of "news" you find on the net or elsewhere that is gossip/speculation. No posting of Twitter stories/rumours etc as these cannot be verified.

BUMP

Please note that the board does not recognise Twitter as a reliable source and asks that no Twitter mentions be posted. This includes all Twitter mentions be it Orlando or any other party

Thanks

[Andnolewen]

Please take note the addition to rule nr 3:

3. No gossip or speculation about Orlando or the people close to him. No girlfriend/wife bashing (that includes on-the-sly snarky remarks). Period. That means absolutely no assumptions about Orlando's motives. Unless you can prove you know him personally and have his permission to discuss his private life, it is off limits.
No posting of "news" you find on the net or elsewhere that is gossip/speculation.
No posting of Twitter stories/rumours etc as these cannot be verified, with the exception of pictures.
If you find a Tweet you think is worth posting at OLove, with a reliable source, and/or with a verified account, and/or with an attached pic you can PM our newshound: Interconnector.
The decision to post or not post is up to the moderators.

[nuit]

Please take note of the alterations to the Disclaimer

We maintain a Board that is respectful to Orlando Bloom, his family and his choices and this is reflected in the content. The views and opinions of members do not necessarily reflect those of the board owners, administrators and moderators and this is especially relevant to note where links are followed from this site to other places on the internet. OL does not endorse nor promote such sites or views expressed therein. By using or viewing this forum you agree to hold elflady.com blameless and without responsibility for any injury or trauma experienced.