The Aeclectic Tarot Forum is dedicated to the purpose and the pleasure of sharing knowledge, insight and appreciation of Tarot. To maintain our Forum as an friendly and educational area for everyone, please follow our rules when participating.

We are a Tarot-focused discussion forum for people of varying ages, nationalities, cultures, spiritualities and Tarot beliefs. Please write in clear English, remember your Netiquette, and read over your messages before posting in order to avoid possible misunderstandings.

Play nice while you're here. We ask that you refrain from discussing political topics: having a worldwide membership, we also have a diverse range of political opinion.

No flaming, baiting, insults, or harassment of other members on the forum or via private message. Lack of respect for other members will result in post removal and/or temporary or permanent suspension of all member privileges.

We work hard to maintain and improve this forum and we'd rather not have our members or traffic diverted to other sources. Therefore, we don't allow self-promoting, advertising, or soliciting visitors to your own or an affiliated website, forum, mailing list, service, product, workshop, conference, auction, etc, either via posts, threads, signature, email, or private message.

All advertising will be removed unless you have express written permission from administration, or:

* You are a Forum Subscriber posting in the Advertisements forum;
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* You are a Tarot author posting in the Tarot Books & Media forum;
* You have a Tarot-related product and you are responding to a directly relevant thread or question. Caution: multiple posts of this nature may be considered self-promotion.

Spam, affiliate links, email addresses and links to other forums will be removed without notice. Posts including Amazon or other retailer links may be altered to include Aeclectic Tarot's affiliate ID.

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Tempted to diverge into an unrelated tangent while deep in a thread? Show good manners and move your discussion to a more appropriate place.

Avoid meta-discussion. Instead of talking about the thread or post itself while you're posting in it, stick to talking about the original topic. Any concerns about our policies, rules or guidelines should be sent privately to a moderator or to administration for handling.

We like thoughtful posts that contribute your thoughts or opinion. Don't post 'Me too', 'I agree', 'Well said', 'I have this deck too', 'bump' type one line messages, as these will be removed by moderators.

Keep personal conversation to Private Messaging. If your conversation is directed at one other person and is of no interest to anyone else - take it to private messaging.

Respect for members also extends to the moderators. Aeclectic Tarot's moderators are volunteers and often have to deal with challenging situations and differing views when maintaining our community, and the vast majority of the time they do a great job. You can help our moderators out by using the Post Report tool, the exclamation mark in the corner of every post, if you see something violating these rules or needing attention.

Any queries, concerns, arguments or discussion about a moderator's decisions, actions or behaviour should not be discussed in public. You may instead respectfully contact the moderator in private, or administration if the situation is unable to be resolved.

Forum policies or rules are not to be discussed on the forum in any manner. Disagreement or suggestions for changes may instead be sent directly to administration for consideration.

You may post a short text excerpt from an article by another author. Complete works may not be posted unless you have obtained written permission for its reproduction.

Posts from other forums may not be reproduced without written permission from the author and from the relevant forum administration.

Forum administration reserves the right to delete, edit, close or move any thread or post at any time, at our discretion.

Accounts will not be deleted, though personal information will be removed and accounts set to inactive upon request. Requests for mass post deletion will be denied in the interests of maintaining thread integrity. Deletion of individual posts will be handled at the discretion of administration and/or moderators.

By posting on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum, you retain copyright of your images and words, but you give permission to Aeclectic Tarot to reproduce your posts in digital format; for example, when managing threads and posts or copying the database to another server.

The above Forum Rules are intended to be a general guide, and are not exhaustive. We reserve the right to change these rules at any time, and to take actions in the interest of the wider Aeclectic Tarot Forum to remove disruptive members and/or posts.

Above all, use your maturity and common sense when participating in the Aeclectic Tarot Forum, and enjoy talking about Tarot.