Membership at this website is provided as an 'extended service' to members of the Finchley Manor Sports Club - this includes members of:

• Finchley Manor Tennis Club
• Finchley Manor Squash and Racquetball Club
• Finchley Manor Health Club and Gym
• Finchley Manor Sports Club Social Members

All Finchley Manor Sports Club site members and guests are responsible for knowing the information contained in the following Code of Conduct.

Finchley Manor Sports Club reserves the right, but does not assume the responsibility, to restrict communication which it deems in its discretion to be harmful to individual guests, damaging to the communities which make up our site, or in violation of our or any third-party rights.

Prohibited profile content, private messaging, message board posting, and e-mailing, behaviours include (but are not limited to):

• profanity, vulgarity, or explicit content For example:
  • "masking" by using alternative characters/spellings and spaces to get around profanity filters, leet-speak, and combinations of words that produce an offensive result (e.g. Mr. F. Athead)
  • "filter testing"
  • discussion of or in-character enactments of "cybering" or sexually explicit material
  • discussion of or in-character enactments of graphic violence
• hate speech (e.g. racial, ethnic, sexist, homophobic and religious slurs)
• promotion of or engaging in certain illegal activities, For example: drugs, drug paraphernalia, rape or solicitation of a minor, computer hacking, and copyright violation
• harassment of another specific person (e.g. persistent flaming or continued personal attacks on message boards or "in-character harassment" without prior out-of-character permission.)
• trolling or baiting by putting to the screen inflammatory statements designed to elicit a negative response from the community.
• spamming through repeated posts or off-topic content by word or intent to message boards or lists (e.g. scrolling, flooding, polling, or by "bumping" a boards post more than once in 48 hours).
• advertising or promoting a business or commercial site without the permission of Finchley Manor Sports Club
• impersonation of another person, site staff or Finchley Manor Sports Club member by either screen name or self-representation (e.g. faking a screen name by using similar-looking characters, "spoofing" speech in a chat room, or claiming to hold an official title or position relating to the site or club).
• reregistering a banned username, a variation of a banned name, or declarations under a new screen name that you are "really" the banned name or attempts to resubscribe under another address after being put on REVIEW by the moderator.
• off-topic posts or thread hijacking.

These disruptive behaviours are grounds for removal; Finchley Manor Sports Club site administrators are the final judges of whether a member's behaviour qualifies as inappropriate or a disruption.

• No useless posts. This includes: Thread bumping, useless one liners, Flamewars, Trolling and Spamming. What is spamming? Read this To find out more.
• Only one account per user
• Check that your question has not been answered anywhere else on the site. Use the search feature (both on site content and in discussion forums).
• Post your comment/question to the most appropriate place. Any posts deemed to be in the wrong forum will be moved. Do not cross-post the same question to multiple places.
• Ask Questions The Smart Way. Read this by Eric Raymond.
• Thank those who help you. Acknowledgement of a helpful suggestion not only placates those who helped you, it may also help others with a similar problem. All those who have been helped on this forum are invited to help other users by responding to their questions when they know the answer.

In other words, behave yourself. Treat other members just as you would treat them in person--politely.

Disciplinary Procedures

If a member of the Finchley Manor Sports Club website has demonstrated he or she cannot behave, the member will have his/her profile banned and will lose his or her username.

These procedures are only meant to be rough guidelines, as each profile, message board, and content situation is different and may require other measures to ensure the community orientation and spirit of the site.

You Can Make Finchley Manor Sports Club website a Better Place

Our administrators and moderators can't be everywhere at once. Therefore, if you witness actions in message boards, or other areas of this site that you believe harms a guest, damages Finchley Manor Sports Club, or violates Finchley Manor Sports Club’s or some third-party's rights, please make a note of the time/place where the event occurred and contact a Finchley Manor Sports Club site administrator. If they aren't handy, please see our contact page.

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