Trolling
We are all entitled to our opinions and that may included negative opinions about a team's form/management/anything else, but if you are knowingly or purposely posting to incite anger/negativity on the board or from the community, you will be banned for trolling. These boards are meant for meaningful discussions and debates, not a place for you to start trouble. Be mindful that many of our players and their families read our boards so if you are going to say something negative about one of our own players ensure that it is constructive and to the point and not personal.

Profanity
Excessive offensive language is unacceptable. While the forum is NOT language moderated, there are limits. Remember, you don't have to use excessive profanity to get your point across, and it's usually better to avoid it altogether. Excessive profanity in posts may be edited out, and repeat offenders or those who use excessive profanity will be warned and then banned. In particular, be careful when quoting outside sources or other users as you are responsible for your own post and everything inside it. When linking to external sites that contain profanity, please include a warning.

Note that as thread titles are more visible than thread content, they are held to a higher standard. Vulgar, obscene, sexual terms, slang terms for body parts, etc. that might otherwise be allowed on the boards should not be used in thread titles.

Criminal Activity
No discussions of illegal activity will be tolerated on the boards. Any instruction on how to carry out illegal activity or admission of illegal activity will be dealt with harshly. This includes but is not limited to discussions about how to obtain drugs illegally, how to steal, fraud, how to kill someone, rape (including statutory rape), abuse of humans or animals, and auto theft. To sum up, if it's against the law, don't post it ... take it to facebook.

Spam
Purposely spamming a message board with senseless, vacuous, or empty messages is highly frowned upon! This includes such things as party posts, chain letters, two-word "I agree" or "me too" responses, merely posting an icon, one word replies, bumping old topics, +1, "didn't read" or "old", continually posting the same topic or post, posting the same question across several boards and using the Quote feature without contributing anything new to a thread.

Flaming & Bashing
Hate posts and personal attacks against other forum users or members of the Whitecaps playing, management or office staff will not be tolerated on the Vancouver Southsiders Boards. Treat others on these message boards as you would expect them to treat you. Talking trash about another user or posting topics specifically to provoke a negative response from an individual, a group or an entire community is not acceptable on the Vancouver Southsiders Boards. These posts will be deleted and will result in a ban.

Board bashing is also not allowed on the Vancouver Southsiders Boards. Please respect the various communities on the Vancouver Southsiders Boards system. If another board is not your favorite, there's no need to complain about it. Simply refrain from visiting it. Board bashing posts will be deleted.

Pornography & Sexually Explicit Content
Absolutely no forms of pornography or overly sexually suggestive imagery are allowed on the boards, this includes links and/or posting a name of a porn site. Please see these guidelines for more detailed information on what is acceptable to post. Note that pornography is not limited to images - descriptive sexually explicit posting is also not allowed on the boards. This includes describing sexual acts in a profane manner or using sexual slang terms for body parts or actions not related to a member of the oposite team's WAGs. We allow mature discussions of sexuality, but the boards are not your bedroom, local bar, porn shop or back alley. Please keep all discussions on this subject mature and use proper terms.

Other Explicit Content
Explicit images/videos, which include but not limited to death scenes, death pictures, torture, mutilation and human feces, are not allowed. Explicit written descriptions of these acts is also not allowed on the boards.

Off-Topic Posts
Please try to post suitable subjects on each of the appropriate boards. Off-topic posts will most likely be deleted or moved, and further action may be taken against repeat offenders.

Duplicate Threads
Please do not start a new thread on a subject if it already exists. Duplicate threads will be closed or deleted, and further action may be taken against repeat offenders.

Ticket Exchange
All ticket exchanges, either requests for tickets or offers of extra tickets should go in the ticket exchange thread. Since this is for the Community, all offers should be not above face value. This is for the group, and the face-to-face trades are definitely encouraged; Please be clear if you NEED tickets or HAVE tickets, and for what game the tickets are for.

Vancouver Southsiders is in no way involved in the actual transaction between buyers and sellers. These boards are only meant as a means for users to sell, trade, and buy tickets, and Vancouver Southsiders accepts no responsibility for the legality, safety, accuracy, or legitimacy of the items listed on the board. Since we cannot guarantee that a buyer or seller will complete a transaction, both parties accept full responsibility for any transactions transpiring through the Vancouver Southsiders message boards.

Taboo Subjects
Religion, Sex and Politics can be discussed on these forums only if in a civil manner. However threads will be moderated more heavily and will be locked as soon as anyone crosses that line Which means that these subjects should be avoided.

Questionable Content
Since we can't have a rule to cover everything, this is the rule to, well, cover everything. These are public boards, so act like you would if you were in a public place. Vancouver Southsiders reserves the right to choose the guidelines of objectionable content based on its knowledge of users, the Vancouver Southsiders Charter and Vancouver Southsiders Bylaws. These issues are left to the discretion of the individual moderators, but may include any material that is knowingly false and/or defamatory, misleading, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, racist, sexist, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy or that otherwise violates any law or encourages conduct constituting a criminal offense. Also note that the Board Rules extend to all areas of the Vancouver Southsiders Message Boards system, including but not limited to Private Messages, Vancouver Southsider Signatures, and Unban Requests. This also includes asking for or offering anything against the Board Rules via Private Messages. Vancouver Southsiders is not responsible for messages posted on the Vancouver Southsiders Boards or the content therein. Unless expressly stated otherwise, this includes messages posted by Vancouver Southsiders members, board members, moderators et al. Vancouver Southsiders reserves the right to reveal the identity of or whatever information we know about any user in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by said user.

The Vancouver Southsiders Board of Directors has the right but not the obligation to monitor and/or moderate the Vancouver Southsiders Boards. The Vancouver Southsiders Board of Directors reserves the right to change any or all other parts of this User Agreement at its sole discretion and without notice, including but not limited to implementing Rules of Conduct, Terms of Service and/or other measures.