Terms of Service (TOS) for this website

TOS have been brought up several times in posts here on the forum. Alloro brought them up once today (10/8/2013) and I forget who brought them up before.

Curious as to what the TOS actually says, I looked for it. The only thing I could find was the "registration agreement" one acknowleges when signing up for the forum.  I have provided a cut and paste for it below.

My questions at this point are:
  Is what I have included here the true TOS?
  If there is a TOS other than what I have provided here, where is it so we can read it?

More observations later after these questions have been answered.

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Curious as to what the TOS actually says, I looked for it. The only thing I could find was the "registration agreement" one acknowledges when signing up for the forum.  I have provided a cut and paste for it below.

My questions at this point are:
  Is what I have included here the true TOS?

Assuming you've done a cut and paste without any modifications to the context, then yes the Registration Agreement you posted is the TOS if only by another name. The Registration Agreement/TOS spells out the terms which have to be agreed to in order to obtain membership to this site.

Assuming you've done a cut and paste without any modifications to the context, then yes the Registration Agreement you posted is the TOS if only by another name. The Registration Agreement/TOS spells out the terms which have to be agreed to in order to obtain membership to this site.

Yes, the cut and paste was done without any modifications being made to it. To do otherwise would have been pointless.

I will post my observations and questions either later today or sometime tomorrow as life does extend beyond these bounds.

While we're waiting here's my first suggestion.

How about asking Travis to create a locked section entitled TERMS OF SERVICE (or something like that) and putting the TOS into it.  That way anyone who was interested could find it by looking at the main menu.

How about asking Travis

Feel free, you don't need me or anyone else to do that. Unless you're not on speaking terms for some reason?

Feel free, you don't need me or anyone else to do that. Unless you're not on speaking terms for some reason?

I thought, as global moderator, you might want to suggest it, but since he drops in on a fairly regular basis I'm sure he'll read the threads of the last few days....once he gets his locker buys listed.

As to "....not on speaking terms for some reason?"...as long as I provide a controversy once a month he's happy. It's like the news on tv, if it was all hearts and flowers the ratings would go down ! 

Best thing is DONT OVERTHINK IT