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A Community Leader's job is to help users, new and old, get the most out of Lulu. They offer advice, tips, expertise and experience, whether you're new to Lulu, running into a problem, or even new to publishing and writing. Community Leaders are active on the forums, and some may offer useful information or products on their own storefront or homepage. You don't have to know Lulu inside and out to be a Community Leader though; if you have expertise in software like Word or Photoshop, or marketing experience, or lots of editing advice, you can help just as much.

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IMPORTANT

Lulu’s forums help build a strong community of creators by fostering discussion and sharing information. Messages posted by Lulu community members are solely the opinion and responsibility of the person posting the message. All users posting to the Lulu forums must read this Forum Posting Policy.

Posting to the forums constitutes your agreement to the terms outlined in this Forum Posting Policy For more information on Lulu's terms of service, please also see our Member Agreement.

Please treat all Community Leaders and their decisions with respect. As volunteers helping users and moderating the Lulu forums, they deserve your courtesy as much as we feel you deserve theirs. While we’re the first to admit we’re not perfect, we strive to be impartial and conduct ourselves in the fairest manner as possible for all. In order to provide you with a safe and positive experience on our forums, some moderation actions taken in the forums by our Community Leader may not be explicitly covered under these guidelines if we feel certain posts are not in the best interest of our community. If at any time you feel a Community Leader, or another user treats you unfairly or inappropriately, please send an email to communityabuse@lulu.com or click “Report Abuse” button within the forum.

Prohibited activities within the Lulu Forums:

Violation of these rules is grounds for immediate post removal, forum sanction and/or suspension of your Lulu account. Please note: The moderators of Lulu's forums reserve the right to remove any post we deem as inappropriate without warning.

Advertising, “Spamming”, Self Promotion, Reviews and "Bumping":

Lulu prohibits posting of advertising links, images or content for the purpose of self-promotion outside of the Shameless Promotion Forum. Hijacking or creating a new thread for the purpose of solicitation or advertising of content or any posts which could be interpreted as a solicitation, including the promotion of content published on Lulu.com, are prohibited outside of their relevant forums. The solicitation or advertisement of content or other goods, services, or other information not found or published on Lulu is considered “spam” and not allowed anywhere in our forums. For additional rules governing the Shameless Promotion Forum, please click here.
Requests for and discussions involving reviews must be within the Ratings and Reviews Forum and is prohibited anywhere else in the forums. Please click here for additional information and guidelines on reviews.

Bumping Threads

The practice of posting to a pre-existing forum thread for the sole purpose of bringing it back to the top of the forums is called "bumping" an activity typically frowned upon. While we allow you to post a reply to your own thread when you have something of note to add, posting words such as *bump* or “Is someone going to response to this?” is of little use to anyone and considered an act of “bumping.” Moderators consider excessive bumping the same as spamming, and violators will be subject to the same sanctions as spammers.

Flaming & Trolling:

Posting intentionally hostile or insulting messages meant to incite arguments, a.k.a. “flame wars.” Such activity is not considered a positive contribution to the Lulu community and will be removed. We do not discourage heated debates, but as the line between this forum of discussion and “trolling/flaming” is often subjective in nature, the determination as to what is and is not acceptable will be determined solely by our moderators (Community Leaders and Staff). Whether provoked by another member or other reasons, aggressive retaliatory responses to trolling/flaming are not excusable acts under any circumstances. If another member of our forums is personally attacking you, please report it to the moderators by clicking the “Report Abuse” button within the post. DO NOT RETALIATE or respond aggressively to an abusive comment. Offensive remarks made in retaliation to an abusive post are subject to removal/sanctions.

Profanity & Obscenity:

We prohibit the posting of material (graphics, text, links and other references) containing profanity, vulgarity, hate speech, or threats of violence, obscenity, and pornographic or adult material. Using a vulgar, profane, or otherwise offensive username is also prohibited. While we encourage free expression, we also expect our members to be respectful of the sensibilities of other users. The determination as to what is and is not considered acceptable posting on our forums is at the discretion of the moderators.

Discussing or reposting of deleted, locked posts or banned members

Respect the decisions of our moderators and staff. If a topic is locked or deleted or a user has been banned, discussions of these subjects are no longer allowed to continue elsewhere within the forums. Comments, questions or concerns on such actions within the forums can be submitted to Lulu staff by clicking on the "report abuse" button within the post, or by sending an email to "communityabuse@lulu.com". DO NOT post these comments within the forums.

Posting contact information about another individual

This includes information on private members and non-members of the site, Community leaders, as well as Lulu staff regardless of the source of that information.

Using multiple accounts for the purposes of fraudulent or deceptive behavior

While there is nothing wrong with have multiple aliases in our forums, we prohibit the use for such aliases to try and deceive other users or moderator, to “bump” or promote a topic in a thread, or for any other reason we consider a misuse of Lulu’s forums.

Contacting other members regarding Lulu business by unauthorized methods

That is, by searching for and making use of contact information they did not otherwise willingly provide themselves.

Posting copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner

To report copyright infringement or inappropriate content to our administrators, please click the "Flag as Inappropriate" link within the content listing page. If you notice such activity within the forums, please click the "report abuse" button on that post to bring it to the attention to our moderators.

Malicious or Disruptive Code

The use of JavaScript, active or other coding, making repetitive posts, or other actions that interfere with site operations is forbidden. Any malicious code or employment of a robot, spider or other process or device to harvest e-mail addresses or other User information or to monitor the activity on the Forums is also forbidden.

False Representation and Endorsements

Posting with the intent to impersonate Lulu Staff or another member through the use of similar IDs or any other method or device. Posting which falsely suggest that Lulu Staff or Community Leaders have in any way approved of, or are involved in the promotion of given content is prohibited.

Data Mining/Harvesting & Employing Bots

Using the Lulu forums as a means to acquire private information from other community members through any methods.

Posts promoting or encouraging activities that violate Lulu's Forum Posting Policies and/or the Lulu Member Agreement.

Disciplinary Actions

Lulu may sanction an account from the Forums without suspending them from the site. Lulu may suspend any member from the Forums and from the site who has been previously warned of board policy violations, though we reserve the right to suspend a member immediately depending on the violation.

Sanctions/suspensions may range from 1 day to indefinite. A sanction or suspension of one ID applies to all IDs of that member and may, at our discretion, apply to members of the same household.

The use of false registration information or creating multiple accounts for use on Lulu's Forums for the purpose of disruption or to avoid detection may result in permanent sanction or suspension of all associated registrations.

All warnings and suspensions are in accordance with the guidelines set out in the Lulu Member Agreement.

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