1. General rules

    1. Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting. Users consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning. #
    2. Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning. #
    3. Members are asked to not act as “back seat moderators”. If members note an issue which contravenes something in this policy document they are welcome to bring it to the attention of a member of the Moderator Team. Please use the “post report” feature to report posts. Do not respond to such topics yourself. Members who constantly “act” as moderators may be warned. #
    4. Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning. #
    5. Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. When you quote or post something of other users, sites, media, etc. please give credit to the original author or the copyright holder.#
    6. Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". That is users should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or coloured text, etc. Similarly users should not SHOUT or use excessive punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts. Users consistently abusing this will be warned.#
    7. Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. Posts about irrelevant services, sales, multiple posting, post including excessive external url links, etc. will be considered as SPAM. SPAMS and SPAMERS will be delected once found. #
    8. The moderating and admin team reserves the right to edit, remove or put on moderation queue any post at any time. Please note that currently any very first post is automatically placed in the moderation queue and will be approved/disapproved according to the present Rules. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these points is up to Team Members and not users. #
    9. Members should not discuss how to perform, elude capture, or profit from illegal activities. #
    10. Members who post sexually explicit, racist, obscene or vulgar language, graphics, behaviour or links to related content will be warned and asked to edit related post. #
    11. Members should not request personal information from other members or post other members personal information on the site without their permission. #
    12. Members should not post any PM or e-mail in an open discussion. #
    13. The above forum rules where applicable also apply to private messaging/signature. Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings (as above) and/or the revocation of private messaging/signature. #
    14. All the ideas and opinions on this site are strictly those of their respective posters and do not necessarily represent the views of HangzhouExpat.Com. #
  2. Coming Events&Nightlife

    1. Sales promotion activities are not belong to "Events" section. All kinds of special offers of restuarants, cafes, bars, etc. please post in "Promotion" section. (If a promotion can offer some promoted products for our members for free, the promoter can apply to post in Coming Event Forum.) #
    2. Themed events at bars/clubs/pubs should be posted in "Nightlife" section.
      -A themed event should be within one week with invited performers, not residence performers. #
    3. The content of an ecent should NOT include venue introduction. Besides "time", "venue", "attendees"...etc. basic information, it should also include the performer/performance introduction and event introduction (if you only leave the name , your post may be moved to promotion section or deleted.) #
    4. Special offers for food/drinks are not considered as events. Please post them in "Promotion" section. #
    5. If you have free offer for our community members only, you can apply to allhangzhou@gmail.com for posting your event here or making the event post sticky. #
    6. Members are asked not to duplicate posting one event or keep bumping one event post. #
    7. Members should not bash other's event or review an event if you didn't attend it. #
  3. Pratice Chinese

    1. This section is for expats wishing to practice their written Chinese with our Chinese-language-capable users, and for our Chinese-capable users to discuss topics with each other in Chinese language. #
    2. Members who want to teach Chinese or look for Language exchange partner should post in "Language Exchange & Questions" section. #
  4. Jobs' Classified ads

    1. Please choose prefix [offered/wanted] for your topic. #
    2. Please post non-teaching jobs in the forum "Job offered and wanted" directly, to avoid the non teaching job posts being swallowed up by the teaching job posts, and to give more exposure to non teaching jobs.
      非教育岗位直接在‘Job offered and wanted’ 目录下发表,我们欢迎各类跨国企业,合资企业来在这里发布各种用人信息。#
    3. For teaching jobs, there are two categories divided by location: Hangzhou and not Hangzhou. All Educational institutions have to prove the company has "Certificate Authorizing Employment of Foreign Experts". Please e-mail to allhangzhou@gmail.com
      语言培训机构招聘必须证明其拥有有效的”聘请外国专家单位资格认可证书”,只审核一次,通过的机构在其有效期内加入白名单。 (您可以将证书以照片形式上传至帖中,如涉及隐私,可发送至allhangzhou@gmail.com) #
    4. This forum is free for all individuals. For-profit companies and institutions which have to post job offers on a regular basis can send e-mail to allhangzhou@gmail.com for paid service.
      本论坛免费面向个人求职/招聘。营利性公司/机构可邮件联系allhangzhou@gmail.com咨询相关费用。并推出顶端广告位,前2名有机会获得免费顶部广告位一期. #
  5. Signature

    1. Moderators reserve the right to remove any link of a commercial website or a website with similar type as hangzhouexpat.com.#