Announcement: Food & Drink Forum Rules & Guidelines

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Welcome to the Food & Drink Forum!

The Gaia Food & Drink forum is a place to discuss all manner of food related topics! Looking for some quick and dirty college recipes? Want to find the latest hot eating spots? Just dying to get into a debate about diet? Then this is the place for you! Of course no forum is without a few guidelines. Read on for all this exciting information!

Table of Contents:

• 1st post: Introduction
  
• Threads that do/do not belong in the Food Forum
  
• Basic Forum Etiquette
  
• How to deal with rules violations
  

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Topics that DO Belong in the Food & Drink Forum:

• Recipes (When posting recipes that are not your own, please cite your sources.)
  
  
• Dietary choices Vegetarianism, veganism, religious dietary restrictions and other special diets.
  
  
• Restaurants Reviews, recommendations, experiences and more.
  
  
• Careers in Food Experiences working in the food & hospitality industry, training and education and more.
  
  
• Health/Allergies/Lifestyle/Diet Eating to lose weight, food allergies, eating for health, and more.
  
  
• Bartending & drinks
  

Topics that DO NOT Belong in the Food & Drink Forum

• Bashing dietary choices: While you may discuss the merits of eating/not-eating meat or other dietary choices, please do so in a civil manner. Posts which are hateful or abusive will be removed.
  
  
• Body/Weight Issues: Many of us have these issues and it is understandable that users would want to discuss this. This forum is not intended for that purpose but you can do so in the Life Issues Forum.
  
  
• Promoting Eating Disorders: Eating disorders (Bulimia/Anorexia, etc) are serious issues and topics promoting eating disorders as a positive dietary choice will be removed.
  
  
• Dangerous Advice: Deliberately giving harmful or bad advice is not going to be tolerated. We want Gaia's users to be safe. Threads encouraging harm will be deleted. Offenses of this nature are a bannable offense.
  
  
• Favorite/Least Favorites: Please post your favorite/least favorite foods/restaurants in the favorites sticky. All other threads will be moved to the Recycle Bin.
  
  
• Pictures of Food: If you have nothing specific to discuss about a certain food, but have a picture that you really want to share, please post it in this sticky. All other threads will be moved to the Recycle Bin.

Threads which do not contain sufficient discussible material may be removed.

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The Forums and YOU: Basic Forum Etiquette

Please follow the usual guidelines and Terms of Service of Gaia in this forum. If you need a memory refresher, please visit the following links:

• Terms of Service
  
• Rules and Guidelines

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Rules Violations:How to Report

• Sure, we are going to run across some rules violations, for the most offenses, you can use the "report this post" buttonhttp://img439.imageshack.us/img439/4114/wtgstickyreportbutton8le.gif
  
  
• If you need IMMEDIATE help from a moderator (porn troll, etc) please find an online one and send them a private message.
  
  
• To find an online moderator, please use the "View Forum Moderators" link at the upper left hand corner of the forum pages. Each Forum has a different list or personnel. Click to view the list of Food Forum Moderators