Welcome to the SCLAA forums

These common sense guidelines have been developed to help maintain the integrity of our community.

These forums are for all SCLAA members. We review all posts daily.

If you see any violations or unsavoury behaviour then please let us know using the ‘Report Post’ link at the bottom of each post.

1. The Golden Rule: respect: While the SLCAA supports open discussion and debate, we are committed to keeping things friendly, supportive and constructive. Please treat your fellow community members with courtesy and respect.
   
   
2. Public disputes: The SCLAA forums are not the appropriate channel for disputes or arguments between named individuals or companies. Any gripes should be taken up directly with the company or individual concerned offline. It is our policy not to get involved, and any such discussions will be edited to remove names, or more likely, deleted.
   
   
3. First time poster? To help us give you a personal welcome, please start by posting in the introductions thread and also let us know a little about yourself by filling in your profile by clicking your 'username' found in the forums. Having a completed forum profile is particularly important to other community members and shows them you are here to participate openly and genuinely. 
   
   To further distance yourself from ‘one post wonders’ avoid over-promoting your offering in your introductory message. A short overview of your business is fine, but the community will not tolerate new users registering purely to advertise. Remember, first impressions count!
   
   
4. Don’t start threads or posts for the purposes of advertising or promoting: Any commercial or promotional links to your own, or third party, websites (including job advertisements, those promoting events, selling or giving away products or services, etc.) should be directly relevant to an ongoing discussion in all instances. This includes re-posts of articles and blogs that appear elsewhere and that are clearly posted here purely to drive traffic. Any affiliate links not accompanied by a disclosure statement clearly outlining the nature of your affiliation will be removed.
   
   NOTE: If your post is to promote an event, be sure contact the SCLAA secretariat with the details where we can display it on the Events section of the website.
   
   
5. Adding value: Please ensure that posts add value to discussions and/or continue ongoing conversations. Seemingly empty posts such as ‘I agree’ or ‘Good point’ etc that we deem are purely posted for promotional purposes will be deleted and repeated posts treated as spam.
   
   This is not at all aimed at genuine conversations or common courtesies.  If you think we've been over-zealous in our moderation, please feel free to let us know. 
   
   
6. Signature guidelines: Please keep signatures short (4 lines maximum), simple and professional – adding a tagline and linking to your business website is fine in your signature, but no more than 3 links and no images.  We reserve the right to edit existing signatures that are outside these guidelines as we come across them. Please update your signatures.
   
   
7. Keep personal information personal: Be mindful that your post will only appear on our forum at this stage.  However we do reserve to right to open up the forum for all internet uses.  So keep that in mind when making posts.  Avoid posting information such as home addresses and phone numbers, instead share this information in a more private way.
   
   
8. Keep it clean: No porn, links to pirated software, illegal activities or just general nasty stuff – this isn't the place for that. Insulting, defamatory, prejudicial or offensive posts and posters will be deleted.
   
   
9. Management of posts: Once submitted, we generally do not delete legitimate posts. We may close posts that have run their course, move threads to more relevant areas or edit posts not complying with the guidelines. Additionally, we may amend the titles of threads or posts to assist clarity or general visibility.

Help us keep our forums clean and useful. If you see any violations or unsavoury behaviour then please let us know using the ‘Report post’ link at the bottom of each post. If you have any feedback or technical problems, please contact us here.

We look forward to seeing you get involved in the discussions.

• To maximise the chances of people finding your post, please use subject titles that are clear and easy to understand. The more descriptive, the better.
• If you’re asking a question, be sure to provide enough background and detail for a meaningful answer
• If your thread starts to head off-topic, consider starting a thread on that new topic
• Place messages in just one forum section – don’t cross-post or duplicate them to multiple discussions
• Use the preview feature to check spelling and formatting.
• Format long posts using paragraphs, numbers and bullets if needed
• Search the forums before adding a new thread to see if your topic is already covered or under discussion. The ‘search’ facility is in the right hand margin of every page
• It’s best to avoid discussion on politics, religion, legal advice and medical advice as these often lead to unproductive discussions and are likely to be deleted.