Members of the message boards must be alumni or currently paid registrants of a National Youth Leadership Forum program. Registrations will not be granted for those individuals who have only received nominations. You must be a paid attendee of the program.

This forum is strictly monitored and content that is considered offensive, harassing, or inappropriate by reasonable standards will be removed and the user will be blocked. By registering and/or posting on these message boards, you agree to the following terms.

• Posts: Obscene or vulgar posting (including cursing) is forbidden - Postings should not contain advertising or endorsements of any sort. - Spamming or hacking into other participant's accounts (including ICQ, AIM, Yahoo messenger, etc.) will not be tolerated.
  
• Arguing with other members: Take it into private. If you would not get in a public argument at your school or job place, DO NOT do it here. If you do, you will be removed from the boards. If you can have an educated disagreement, discussing your opinions or views without arguing or insulting other users, that is fine. This also includes posts that are just negative towards other members and offer no real insight or new information.
  
• Spam: This is looked down upon heavily. DO NOT under any circumstance use the boards as a public forum to advertise. (A LINK to your web page IS acceptable).
  
• Distractions: Any posts that does not directly fall under the topic of the specific board you are posting in is considered a distraction. This is not the place for it. Please use your own discretion and be considerate of the people having to read the posts.
  
• Reviving Old Threads: Do not reply to threads that haven't been active in more than 30 days. Start a new thread and post a link to the old thread for reference if needed. Threads older than 30 days may be locked and archived to enforce this rule. Featured topics are exempt from this rule.
  
• Illegal Conduct: We in no way will condone anyone asking for cracked versions of software, people offering it, links to sites with it, anything of such will be removed from the boards. Direct links to illegal or pirated software will be removed.
  
• Acting Immature or being inconsiderate: Any user that has no manners, posts immature, senseless posts, acts inconsiderate to other members, moderators, or owners of this website will be removed. Posts that fall into these categories will be removed without warning to the posting member and members may be banned without warning if they continue to disregard these rules. These boards are not 100% free speech, they are moderated and controlled to provide the users with an open, yet civilized, discussion forum covering numerous subjects. Respect others and their opinions.
  
• Graphic Signatures: Graphic (Picture) Signatures are allowed, but please keep them to a small resolution The maximum resolution must be within 500x100 pixels. If either is exceeded, you will be contacted and asked to change the image, or an administrator will remove it manually. ONE (1) Graphic only. No graphic signatures that change the layout of the page are allowed (ie. extreme vertical or horizontal sizes). Keep them as clean as possible. And by all means, try to reduce file size as much as possible to reduce strain on 56k modems and their users. Moderators and Staff have final say over what is allowed and what isn't, if you are asked to edit/remove a picture signature please do so.

Reporting Inappropriate Posts: If you see an inappropriate post that violates one of these guidelines, click the "Report This Post" button on the bottom right of any post to send it to the moderators for consideration.

Editing Posts: If no one has posted after you, please use the edit link to edit your post instead of adding a new reply.

Message Board Members' Contact Information To access/obtain Message Board members' contact information, including email and IM names, please use either the view user profile and/or personal message features (should the desired information not be viewable) versus making a post. There is also now a viewable member directory accessible by clicking on Go menu. Please keep this information up to date so others may contact you. Please do not register if you haven't been accepted into a NYLF program. If your registration has been sent in, please wait until we've processed it. By registering early, you will be listed as a guest. Guest members will be deactivated two weeks after board registration if member is not enrolled in an NYLF program. Please note that registrations will primarily be confirmed during working hours (M-F, 9-5 EST).

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact any moderator on the NYLF Message Boards.