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Community Publishing Guidelines

Submitted by GenevieveChoate on March 22, 2006 - 5:28pm.
Modbee.com encourages a free and open exchange of ideas in a climate of mutual respect. Modbee.com welcomes your participation in our online discussion and comment posting systems. We hope these forums offer you the chance to interact with our writers and each other. In order to keep these forums enjoyable and interesting for all of our users, we ask simply that you follow these minimal rules. These rules are only a minimum; in addition to complying with these rules, we ask that you also exercise common sense and generally be considerate toward your fellow users. By participating either in our online discussion and comment posting systems, you are consenting to these rules.

1. You agree that you are fully responsible for the content that you post. You will not knowingly post content that violates the copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right of any third party and that you will remove the same should you discover that you have violated this provision. Likewise, you may not post content that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, abusive,  that violates a third party's right to privacy, that otherwise violates any applicable local, state, national or international law, or that is otherwise inappropriate. You will indemnify The Modesto Bee, its employees, agents, and affiliates from any and all claims and/or damages (including but not limited to reasonable attorneys' fees) resulting from any claim brought by any third party relating to content you have posted.

2. You understand and agree that modbee.com is not responsible for any content posted by third parties. You further understand that modbee.com does not and cannot review all content prior to its posting. Keep in mind that more than likely you will read a post before modbee.com staff. Nevertheless, modbee.com may monitor the discussion forums as it chooses and reserves the right (but assumes no obligations) to remove, edit or otherwise alter content that it deems inappropriate for any reason without obtaining anyone’s consent. We further reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to remove at any time a user's privilege to post content in our discussion forums.

3. You understand and agree that these discussion forums are to be used only for noncommercial purposes. You may not solicit funds, promote commercial entities or otherwise engage in commercial activity in our discussion forums.

4. The discussion forums are for text only. Use of graphics and audio is not appropriate.

5. You acknowledge and agree that you use and/or rely on any information obtained through the discussion forums at your own risk. Modbee.com is not in any manner endorsing the content of the discussion groups and cannot and will not vouch for its reliability.

6. For any content that you post, you hereby grant to modbee.com the royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, exclusive and fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such content in whole or in part, world-wide and to incorporate it in other works, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed.

7. The first violation of the guidelines will result in a warning from modbee.com staff. The second will result in a two-week suspension from The Hive. The third result in a months' suspension and the fourth, a permanent ban.
To register a complaint about another user's conduct, please send an e-mail message to webstaff@modbee.com, or write to Customer Service, modbee.com, 1325 H St., P.O. Box 3928, Modesto, CA 95352. Complaints will not be addressed on The Hive.