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• Members must have a maximum of one account, no matter how many companies they represent.
• Be respectful to other users and avoid personal attacks.
• HostingDiscussion.com, in its discretion and without liability or notice, reserves the right to remove, edit, move or close any message, signature, or graphic that, in our judgement, does not comply with our policies.
• Offensive words and foul language must be avoided.
• You are solely responsible for your interactions with other members. HostingDiscussion.com reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other members.
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• Advertising, or any other form of solicitation, is not allowed outside of the Marketplace forums.
• Affiliate links are not allowed anywhere on HostingDiscussion.com.
• Spam, plagiarism and low grade content that doesn’t add value, including paraphrasing and auto-generated material will be deleted and accounts may be terminated without warning. If you use someone else's content, credit the source.
• The usage of ChatGPT, any other AI or auto-generated content software for posting on HostingDiscussion is prohibited.
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• Members may not upload, post or otherwise transmit any content that is obscene, vulgar, sexually-orientated, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws.

• You cannot use signatures to run sales ads (including coupons, pricing information and plan descriptions).
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• Signatures must be set up in your profile and not manually added to posts.
• Signatures must be kept to a maximum of 4 lines (a blank line counts as a line).
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• You cannot use copyrighted material without explicit permission.

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• Advertising must be on the specific subject of each particular forum.
• You cannot start more than 1 thread per 7-day period per Marketplace forum.
• The following forums require 10 days of membership and 15 relevant and valuable posts in select community forums in order to start a thread:
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• Further rules may apply for specific Marketplace forums. Please pay attention to "sticky posts" with such rules, if available.

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