General Rules

While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters.

Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.

Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.

Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum email and Private message system to spam other members.

Bumping posts is not allowed. We will delete any bumps and lock the thread.

We also do not allow posts that are sexual in nature or violate Sallie Mae Beef community standards. The Sallie Mae Beef team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.

Discussion of illegal activities is not allowed.

Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.

If you are going to post non-English on these forums, please also post an English Translation of your post.

You cannot post any affiliate or referral links, or post anything asking for a referral. Such posts will be subject to removal.

You cannot post advertisements or notices for contests.

Advertising Services and Solicitation

We do not allow people to post threads or to send private messages or emails to users here that advertise or solicit any products, services, funds or donations.

Links in Signatures

A link and promotional text for a site that is not commercial and does not contain product(s) and/or service(s) is allowed, provided the site is not sexual or does not violate Sallie Mae Beef community standards. The Sallie Mae Beef team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards. (Examples include sites about drugs and/or sex.)
Duplicate links to the same URL in a signature are not allowed.

Avatars

Animated avatars are not allowed. Sorry.

Avatars that may be confused with official staff avatars are not allowed.

Signature Size Limits
All signatures should not exceed the following size limits, and you can't have both text and images

For text signatures: 4 lines normal size, 8 lines small size and up to 90 chars per line. Font sizes above 2 are not allowed. (Blank lines count as lines.)

Do not use images with large text to bypass the previous item.

For images in signatures: 1 image up to 300 pixels wide, 125 pixels tall and 20k in size

Animated images in a signature are not allowed

Forum Specific Rules
Introductions

Feel free to introduce yourself in this forum after registering. The only thing we ask is that any conversation resulting from an introduction be taken to the General Chit-Chat forum.

General Chit-Chat

The General Chit-Chat forum is where registered Sallie Mae Beef members can gather to talk about almost anything.

Any conversation that doesn't fit into any other forum should be taken here.

Bad Experiences

Please share your story with the world in this forum. It's important to help others learn from your experience. It's also a great stress-reliever!

Please do not reply to other stories with your own. Start a new thread. The exception to this rule would be how a part of someone else's experience relates to your own.

Good Experiences

Please share your story with the world in this forum. It's important to help others learn from your experience.

Please do not reply to other stories with your own. Start a new thread. The exception to this rule would be how a part of someone else's experience relates to your own.

While these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.

We also reserve the right to ban anyone who wilfully violates the forum rules, as access to our support forums are a privilege and not a right. A banned customer is still entitled to support from the support system.