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Our goal is to create a friendly environment for our customers to share their audio experience, music collection, thoughts and ideas, or questions in the forum section. Therefore, we ask the all forum participants to be members of Element Acoustics.

As an individual member of Element Acoustics, you hereby agree to provide your most updated and genuine information. Members have access to the “Member” section with a username and password. Please guard your username and password as you do with your other confidential. Element Acoustics is not responsible for lost or stolen username and password.

General rules are simple. Upon your membership registration, you have agreed NOT to:

• flame or insult other members,
• post personal identifiable information (ie. name, address, email, phone number, etc),
• derail a thread's topic or post links to phishing sites,
• post spam or repetively post in the incorrect forum,
• openly argue with a moderator,
• create alternate, backup or multiple accounts,
• Unsolicited advertising of other sites by the owners or employees of those sites,
• discuss inappropriate topics such as porn, violence or harassment, racism and discrimination, drugs and alcohol, religious or political arguement, etc. We ask all members to:
• Be polite
• Stay on topic
• Listen to the Moderators / Administrator and follow the rules 

​Please note that your username, password, and the Element Acoustics membership is strictly limited for PERSONAL use only; it CAN NOT be shared with any other third parties. Element Acoustics is not responsible for lost or stolen membership account.

Audio distributors and audio dealers please contact us to setup an INDUSTRY account, upon approval. We, at Element Acoustics, reserve the right to cancel individual’s membership without notification; if there is a violation of membership agreement.

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INDEX

Owner’s Statement of Intent

A) Code of Conduct for all users

A1. On Forum Rule

A2. On Topic Rule

A2a. off topic and intentional off topic

A3. Copyright

A4. Duplicate posts

A5. Multiple identity disorder

A6. Avatars

A7. Etiquette

A8. Calling Out

A9. Toleration

B) Sanctions

C) Definitions of unacceptable posts

OWNER’S STATEMENT OF INTENT

These rules are not meant to stifle discussion, but rather make discussion more genuine and enjoyable. The forum is a place for discussion, and sharing of ideas. It is recognized that some topics can evolve into passionate debates and no action will be taken to stifle them as long as members remain civil and respectful to each other. Thanks for understanding and abiding by these rules.

SECTION A: USERS’ CODE OF CONDUCT

A1. Stay on Forum. All posts must be relevant to the subject matter of their respective forum areas.

A2. Stay on topic. Posts should be on topic with respect to the thread’s title and/or intention.

A2a. Off-topic posts may be judged by the moderators to be incidentally or intentionally off-topic.

A3. Copyright. Excessive use of copyrighted or trademarked material from outside of Element Acoustics is prohibited. You can quote for illustration as long as you credit the original site or source. Do not quote entire articles, just the portions relevant to your discussion.

A4. Duplicate posts. Avoid duplicate posts. Please use the edit post feature.

A5. Multiple Identity Disorder. Do not post under multiple aliases. We're a friendly audiophile community here and as a community it’s nice to know who we're talking to. The creation of aliases for the purpose of anonymously complaining about a post or ad is unnecessary and they will be banned. At Element Acoustics, we reserve the right to track and trace an individual member IP address. If violation is found; we reserve the right to ban and cancel individual’s ALL membership accounts without notification

A6. Avatars. An avatar is visual identification. It should not be used for other purposes, e.g. promotion, criticism of others. Avatars should be tasteful and not offensive. Please do not use avatars that contain nudity or highly sexual imagery.

A7. Etiquette. Be cool. Do not participate in escalating conflicts. Just walk away.

A8. Calling out. Don’t do this in a thread. If you feel it is necessary to report a post or a user, use the CONTACT US form. A9. Toleration. Posts which do not respect the site code and forum rules are not tolerated and will result in sanctions for the posters. Borderline content will be evaluated more rigorously when posted by an individual with a significant prior disciplinary record.

SECTION B:

SANCTIONS Sanctions may be post edits, post deletions, warnings in a thread or by personal message, temporary and permanent Forum bans or membership cancellation. Refusal to heed a warning will lead to a ban. Sanctions are applied at the discretion of the moderators. Generally, repeated unacceptable posting will result in warnings, then temporary forum bans of escalating duration. Repeated temporary bans will result in a permanent ban from forums usage.

SECTION C:

GUIDELINES ON UNACCEPTABLE POSTS Below are some definitions and a list of guidelines outlining the sorts of posts that are not acceptable here on Element Acoustics forum. Ultimately what is unacceptable comes down to the decisions of the Mod Team and Admin. Please use common sense and courtesy when posting. If you have any doubts about the material you are posting, or the language you are using - Stop! Do not make the post, instead contact a member of Staff to discuss it before proceeding. Off topic posts. A post is off topic if the main part of it deals with a subject other than the thread title. An off-topic post can have little effect on the discussion in the thread or its effect can be more severe. Some off-topic posts will be severely sanctioned if they are judged to be intentional; see below. Thread crapping. Here is a clear example: the thread crapper joins a thread started by a proud owner of new equipment and says, “Your stuff stinks,” or “The vendor who sold that stuff to you stinks.” Of course, then other members rush to the OP's defense, saying the equipment and vendor are ok, while yet others come back and defend the first negative statement. Thus the thread has been crapped on and gone to h*ll. Thread derailing. A derailer doesn't necessarily "crap" on the OP's topic, but brings up an irrelevancy that has nothing to do with the topic, and that irrelevancy is compelling enough to cause others to discuss the irrelevant points, thus taking the thread permanently away from the intended topic. The irrelevancy may be acceptable if it's a remark about something of which the poster has been reminded by the topic, with a few comments following on, and because it's a related subject the thread is NOT derailed. Other unacceptable posts: Posts within a discussion-thread which are directed against other individuals in the thread. Unsolicited advertising of other sites by the owners or employees of those sites. Defamatory statements in the absence of proof Derogatory personal remarks Offensive language, flames, and spam. Insults in written or pictorial form Posts containing nudity, explicit pictures, and disturbing imagery. Posts containing racism, sexism, or other forms of hate mongering. Posts containing links to pages (or links to other links) which contain the above unacceptable posts.