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1. By katie Aardman Staff Aug 28th 2007

   There are a few topics of discussion (and types of thread) that we don't want to see on this forum.
   
   1) "Biggest Thread Ever!" - It was funny at the start, but we don't need to clog the forum up with any more of these types of thread.
   
   2) "Love" Threads - Threads about boyfriends, girlfriends and "being in love" are currently not allowed. Yes I know it makes us sound mean, but at first they were harmless and then people started arguing, posting photos of themselves, and giving away personal details.
   
   5) "Personal Information". If you post a message that contains personal information about yourself OR ANYONE ELSE we will delete it. We consider personal information to be things like your age, the school you go to, your name, photographs of you or your family, your address or your email/MSN/AIM contact details. This is simply not safe to post online, so please don't do it.
   
   4) "Inappropriate topics" - remember there are a lot of young children on this forum, so any topic we consider likely to upset younger children will not be tolerated I'm afraid.
   
   3) "Bumping" old threads. Recently there has been a large amount of old thread-bumping going on- some of the threads were from 2007, making them pretty irrelevant! Remember- there's no harm in starting a new thread rather than bumping very old ones!
   
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