Charter (the general rules of the forum)

Fáilte! Welcome to the forum.
General boards rules and policies apply of course.

Please do these things:
Exercise common sense.
Be nice and helpful.
Stay on OP's topic
Keep it locally relevant

Please don't do these things:

• 1. Posts linking to illegal or inappropriate material (warez, porn etc.)
  
• 2. Commercial or site spamming, shilling etc.
  
• 3. Speculating in missing persons threads.A person's family may read this forum - do not post without a verifiable source.
  
• 4. Blatently dragging threads off-topic
  
• 5. Bring up, mainly in a negative way, ordinary locals. They have not asked to be in the limelight and we (you) should respect their right to privacy
  
• 6. Please don't chain-post garbage in the middle of a thread. If you want to have a conversation with someone, PM them or go on IRC.
  
• 7. Feel free to let others know about your fun thing/event in response to a request for something, but starting a thread to pimp your event is not allowed. This goes for ANY type of event. This is a discussion board, not a poster wall. For music events, read the Gigs\Events forum charter and see if you should post there instead.
  
• 8. Do not post anything potentially defamatory or libellous about businesses or people. 'Free Speech' is vetoed by the welfare of Boards.ie.
  For instance do not post anti-recommendations.
  Service/food experiences are too subjective to be reliable and frankly, we don't know you well enough to know your reasons to put a place down.
  If you have a problem with a business and need advice, please use Consumer Issues forum. If someone asks for recommendations, don't use the opportunity to mention places that have "wronged" you. Take it up with the manager instead of the internet.
  
• 9. Do not bring back old threads from years ago. It will confuse people that may not look at dates and make them think 3 year old posts were posted recently.
  
• 10. Txt spk, don't use it here, it's harder to read and you should be able to use proper language, even if it takes a little longer to type.
  
• 11. If you are new, wait a while before naming companies. We like to get to know you a bit more before we take your advice at face value.
  
• 12. No backseat modding. If you feel a post violates this Charter, click the report button in the lower left hand corner of their post, and state your reasons in the report window provided when it opens.
  
• 13. No in-thread discussion of moderation. If you need clarification of this Charter, or wish to discuss actions taken that pertain to moderation, PM the moderator.
  
• 14. Please don't post addresses, emails or phone numbers as this forum is public (not even official numbers or mails) - instead link to an outside website or use the PM function.
  

The penalty for doing any of the above ranges from warnings, editing posts, deletion of posts/threads, PMs, banishment from the forum and ultimately being banned from Boards.ie itself and you possibly being slung over Wolfetone Bridge by your socks.

Even more things to read:
All things buy/sell www.adverts.ie
For tickets (buy/sell) www.toutless.com and/or the ticket section on www.adverts.ie
For letting/finding any accommodation/property you should use Galway Advertiser or www.daft.ie or perhaps Accommodation forum.
The forum is a discussion forum, not a poster wall.

Pro Tips:
A thread that is more suitable in another forum will be moved there at a moderators discretion - a hint is that if you feel the need to add "Galway" to the title the thread could/should probably go somewhere else.
Biko may just remove the "in Galway" bit so not every single thread in the forum is named "Something something... in Galway"...
Look in specialised forum like Fashion, Food, Motors, etc before posting.

If you have a problem with a post, thread or user, use the 'Report Bad Post' icon () or PM one of the mods, listed at the bottom-right of the forum. Do not post your issues in the thread as it will derail the thread.

If you have a problem with a decision made by one of the mods on this board, PM them first and discuss. There is a reason they decided a certain way.
Escalate the issue to all the forum mods if you're not satisfied, and then the Category mod if you can't get no sat-is-fac-tion.
In the event you're feeling particularly confident or injured, you can raise it with the Admins. It shouldn't come to that.