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Group Rules BASHING - Please respect other peoples opinions and ideas. With this many people in a community there's bound to be differences of opinions. Argue your case but please refrain from making personal attack and treating others like they are stupid. If you feel the need to discuss it more deeply, take it to e-mail please. CUSSING or ADULT MATERIALS - This is a family community that is suitable for all ages, please keep this in mind before you post. Adult materials, is not even to be displayed on the Off-Topic. Let's keep this group free of any adult realated materials. ADVERTISING - Please do not advertise your group on the message board other than the Off-Topic board. Only post it once, then we have a sections called "Links", please post your club, group, and other links on that page. Repeative posting of links will be considered spam, that includes group signature links. SPAMMING - Do not harvest emails to use at a new community and do not spam the message boards with repeated messages. Obvious spammers will automatically be banned with no warning. STEALING - Anyone caught copying our copyrighted materials such as our web pages and original articles will be banned and reported to abuse at msn. Note: When we use articles at our site we get permission from the original authors of that material. CAPS (turn caps lock off) - Please do not to put your new subject or write in all CAPS. When you type something in caps in "Interent Language" it means you are shouting or yelling. It also makes the board look like there is confusion and clutter going on. To make the board cleaner and clearer, please use regular caps or no caps at all. SNAKE DISCUSSION - Be cautious when bringing up snakes in a topic. In a rat group we don't care to hear "snakes have to eat". We know snakes have to eat, but keep in mind, this is a "rat lovers" group. This subject may set off others in ways that may get you and them banned. Please respect others. 
POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS - This will usually get posted in Off-Topic. If you are going to post something political, keep in mind the opinions of others. Most of the times these discussion end in arguements. So, if you are going to post somthing political be sure you are not going to personally attack someone for their different view. Read BASHING.
Banned/Non-Members -FALIURE TO ABIDE - If you fail to abide by the rules listed above you will first be warned, and if nothing changes of you, you will be banned or made a non-member. Banned - If you have been banned, you can no longer participate in this group. You might be unbanned, if you send a letter to the manager and assistant manager, and they will decided if they want to give you another chance. Cancelled Membership - If your memebership is cancelled you can still re-join the group, but this time if you get banned for the second time, you will not be allowed back in the group again. Resolve any problems you have with the Manager first, then the Assistant Manager if you need to. Your membership will automatically be cancelled if you in anyway disrespect the managers or assistant managers of this group, you are given a second chance, and after that you are no longer welcome and will be Banned from this group. If any of the members see a post that they find offensive in any way or a disruption in the community and would like it deleted, please let the manager or assistant manager know.
Also plese read MSN's Code of Conduct! Thank you and enjoy the group!
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