1. Key Guidelines and Regulations
- "Group-Buy-Club" (GBC) is a non-profit club that fosters collaborative learning of educational info products. The GBC provides its members with technical and informational opportunities to achieve the club's primary goal. Club participants can explore courses that interest them, purchase, study, initiate discussions, provide reviews, and rate the authors.
- It is expected that all forum communication is conducted in grammatically correct English. The use of any other language is not permitted.
- While slang and profanity are not prohibited, they should be used appropriately. Please be sure to maintain respect towards each other by using proficient English.
- Club members are expected to communicate with mutual respect.
- If you have any questions regarding the operation of the "GBC" club, please thoroughly review all the rules and consult the Questions and Suggestions section before creating a new topic or posting a message. When you can't find an answer, create a relevant topic or post in an existing one.
- Address the administration directly only for questions that fall outside the moderators' scope or in controversial and non-standard situations.
- If you have suggestions about the club's operation, please submit them in the Questions and Suggestions section.
- These rules may be clarified and supplemented as necessary. Club participants will be promptly notified of any updates through the news section of the forum and internal club mail.
- Any additions and changes to the rules will take effect upon their publication.
- Violating any provision in the club's bylaws will result in a warning. Severe violations may lead to immediate and irreversible account blocking for the offender.
2. The main goals of the club
- Joint purchase (Group buy, GB) of information products for preliminary review.
- Unbiased reviews, ratings, and discussions of authors and their educational materials.
- Increasing the personal competence of club members.
- Determination and creation of the most effective methods of self-education.
- Formation of a culture of self-education and professional growth.
3. Strictly Prohibited!!!
- Provoking and fueling conflicts on any grounds.
- Sorting out personal relationships on the club forum (including through personal correspondence).
- Writing using ALL CAPS or employing MiXeD cAsE.
- Posting meaningless messages that lack helpful information, such as "I agree," "+1," "cool," "lol," "thanks," "OK," "ha-ha," "awesome," "respect," "cool," or similar expressions, as well as excessive use of emojis.
- Engaging in spam, flooding, trolling, insulting and demeaning others, making baseless accusations, or any form of provocation, even if subtly done, will result in immediate and irrevocable account blocking.
- Using GB Threads/group purchases for personal correspondence.
- Posting unsolicited advertising announcements and links, as well as conducting commercial activities through the forum, unless explicitly allowed by the club's rules.
- Knowingly sharing false information or employing deceptive tactics in discussions, including editing or deleting one's own messages to distort or conceal their original meaning and mislead other participants with knowingly incorrect information.
- Placing any advertising or commercial information in one's signature, profile, or avatar without prior approval from the administration is prohibited.
- Disclosing any information published in special closed sections of the club's forum or posting links to topics placed in such sections is strictly forbidden.
- Sharing personal contact information (email, website address, social media, messengers, etc.) in any way, including in the profile or avatar, except in cases provided by the club's rules or when explicitly requesting users to provide such information, is not allowed.
- Distributing information products obtained through GB Threads on this forum, including materials from closed sections. Additionally, it is forbidden to incite other participants to engage in such activities.
- Exchanging of information products and provocations of other club members to exchange.
- Posting provocative messages in any, even the most veiled manifestations in the GB thread, aimed to mislead the participants and mainly express their opinion that is not based on personal practical experience.
- Discussing the progress of the acquisition and distribution of information products to the parties to the GB and provoking the organizer with similar issues (including in direct messages).
- In any way provoking and even more, disrupting the GB, or posting the message in the GB thread that the product is in the public domain.
- Discuss the methods of hacking and protecting information products.
- Posting links to warez sites and trackers.
4. Procedure for Creating Topics and Messages
- Each participant can create relevant topics and send messages in the accessible sections of the club's forum, ensuring that they correspond to the forum's content (and the topic) and are not duplicative of the same question.
- Before you create a new topic, please make sure that you are doing it in the right section according to the topic's theme.
- Before creating a new topic, could you verify whether a similar question is already being discussed? To do this, use the keyword search function on the forum.
- If you realize that you made a mistake and created a topic in an inappropriate section, please do not duplicate it in another section. Instead, click the "Report" button above the description and request that your topic be moved to the correct section.
- Errors and Mistakes in topic titles are not allowed.
- When you create a new topic, provide it with a meaningful title that concisely reflects the essence of your question or suggestion. Topics with titles such as "Help, please" or "I have a problem" will be deleted without warning.
- If you made an error in your message or noticed an inappropriate message from another participant, click on the "Report" button above the message, explain the problem, and request correction or removal.
- Each participant can create relevant topics and send messages in the available sections of the club's forum that correspond to the forum's content and keep existing discussions on the same topic.
- Before creating a new topic, please ensure that you are doing so in the appropriate section.
- Before creating a new topic, check if a similar question is already being discussed. Use the keyword search function on the forum.
- If you realize that you have created a topic in the wrong section, do not duplicate it in another section. Instead, click the "Report" button above the description and request your topic be moved to the appropriate section.
- Errors in topic titles are not permitted.
- When creating a new topic, give it a meaningful title that briefly reflects the essence of your question or suggestion. Topics with titles such as "Help, please" or "I have a problem" will be deleted without warning.
- If you make a mistake in your message or notice an inappropriate message from another participant, click on the "Report" button above the message, explain the issue, and request for it to be corrected or deleted.
5. Administration and Moderation
- Administrators and moderators can edit, move, close, and delete messages and topics that do not comply with the forum rules.
- The administration reserves the right to take measures against any account, including blocking access and deletion, at any time and without providing reasons.
- The administration has the right to request additional information regarding the user, such as the messengers' username (telegram verification), using a different browser, or canceling VPN or other IP-address masking services (Thor, Opera Browser, VPN, etc.)
- Any information you post or upload through our forum may be viewed or read by the club's administration.
- Administrators can interpret certain forum rules with preference when participants find those rules ambiguous.
- Except in exceptional cases, the forum administration does not mediate internal disputes between club members.
- Public discussion of the actions of moderators and forum administration is prohibited.
- If a moderator exceeds their authority, their actions can only be appealed through personal messages to the forum administration.
- Decisions made by the forum administration and club council are final and cannot be appealed.
6. Membership Fees
- The primary currency in the "GBC" club is 'Credits,' representing members' transactions.
- During Credit top-up, support fees of 10% are applied to compensate for the platform maintenance and promotion.
- The primary currency unit in the "GBC" club is called "Credits."
- Each club member has a balance that reflects their available Credits or outstanding debts in this currency, displayed on the website.
- The currency maintains a 1:1 exchange rate with the US Dollar.
- Credits, the internal currency, is exclusively used within the club for transactions between members and with the club's administration. It cannot be used as a payment method outside the club. Credits can be utilized to pay for group buys and membership fees.
- Payment for group buys can be made from the balance on the website, which is created for each registered member. Members can add funds to their balance using the available technical features on the website.
- The club administration does not facilitate the exchange of Coins for any other electronic currencies.
- In the event of a violation of club rules resulting in the blocking of a participant's account, the funds in their balance are forfeited, and they lose access to previously paid group buys.
