Posting Guidelines

The Golden Rules for Contributing to Dessert Professional

1. Pretty much anything can be posted, brought up, and discussed - as long as it's about The Art of Dessert.
2. If you own a business you may promote it on your personal page ("My Page") after becoming a member. Please refrain from promoting your business on other pages of this site (forum threads, blog posts, and especially comments on others' My Pages), especially out of context with the topic being discussed. This limitation is in place to keep this site from becoming overwhelmed with content that could make the site less useful to members.
3. The best way to promote your business is to contribute to the community:
   
   • Contribute wisely and well; avoid being flippant and superfluous.
   • Create photo albums of your work filled with good photography.
   • Upload well-produced videos of your work.
   
   
4. In other words, post content that you would like to read if you were visiting another site - and don't post content that you wouldn't want someone else to post on a site you owned and managed.
5. Sharing is the key part of what an online community like Dessert Professional is all about. To see your blog and forum posts appear on the Home Page and in the Latest Activity list (also on the main page), update your privacy settings.
6. The latest additions to the site are posted on the home page in the Latest Activity section in the left-hand column. Please consider other members when posting and try to refrain from having your name appear more than three to four times on this list (there are twelve activities listed).
7. If you find yourself engaged in extended (private) discussions with other members consider using private messages instead of comments.
8. RESPECT other members: Flaming of any sort is not appropriate. Please refrain from posting defamatory or potentially libelous comments.

The publisher and editors of Dessert Professional Online provide this site as a service to its members. The comments and opinions posted by members are the the sole responsibility of the member posting them and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the publisher and editors of Dessert Professional Online.

It is not our policy to censor contributions out of hand. If the editors of Dessert Professional Online determine that some content is posted contrary to the guidelines presented above, they will first contact the individual who made the post - privately - in an attempt to resolve it. This is in accordance with our policy on Respecting members. The publisher and editors reserve the right to delete (they do not have the ability to edit) comments and/or content they deem inappropriate if, after contacting the person who posted it, they cannot come to a satisfactory resolution.

The publisher and editors of Dessert Professional Online reserve the right to ban members from the site if these guidelines are repeatedly not followed. When members are banned from the site, all of the content they published while a member is automatically deleted from the site.