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Join
1)
Your website must have some content. It cannot be one page
and/or
just graphics and
links to other sites.
2)
Your website must not be under construction and/or have missing
graphics and/or links.
3)
Sites must be family friendly. No hate, bigotry or bashing of
others
will be accepted.
4) No "Password" or "Members Only" sites are allowed. All pages
must be
viewable.
5)
Blogs are not considered "Websites" and will not be accepted.
6) No
"Commercial Sites" will be accepted. We are not here to
advertise for
others.
7) All sites need to be in
English or have an English mirror to them.
8)
You may use a Guestbook of your choice, however it must accept html code.
Having a
Guestbook on your website is a requirement.
9)
Your email must be listed on your website. It may be text or
linked
to a graphic.
(Email Forms are not acceptable.)
10) You must have
our linked banner on your site prior to approval.
This will be checked before
your application is approved.
11) You will be
allowed to enter 3 sites with this competition.
However, each site must have
different content.
12)
If you are under 13 years of age you must have parental consent
before you can
join in compliance with the
COPPA Laws. To protect
the
confidentiality of each individual we only use first names or alias.
Email addresses
are for correspondence and voting verification.
We do not
distribute your information to outside concerns.
13)
No adult material may be on your site at any time.
14) No Pornography or links to Pornographic sites are
permitted
under any
circumstances.
15) Foul language may
not be used at any time.
16) If any site
is found to be stealing
bandwidth they will be disqualified!
17)
There is to be no stealing of others graphics/work. If you
would like to use
something that
belongs to another person, please ask first.

Membership
1) You must have
our linked banner on your site while participating.
This will be checked.
Should you not have a banner or it doesn't
have a link your site will be
placed on "Hold" until the problem is resolved.
2) Leave Of
Absence (LOA) is permitted, however you must notify us in
advance, if at all possible, that you
will be needing time
off.
Leave Of Absence = 1 Week
Extended Leave Of Absence = 2
Weeks
3) Leave of
Absence is not permitted in Semi-Finals and Finals Levels
nor the Championship.
Should you require an LOA during this time you
will be moved to Level 2
upon returning.
4) Lack of
communication with Management may lead to termination of
your membership.

Voting
1)
Our voting schedule is from Monday through Thursday only.
Voting times
are from 12:00AM
to 10:00PM EST. Any votes placed after 10:00PM EST
will be posted
the following day.
2) Self-voting is required at
all Levels and those "Self-Voting Requirements" are as follows:
Qualifying Level
~ Must self-vote all 4 days.
Level 1
~ Must self-vote at least 3 days.
Level 2
~ Must self-vote at least 3 days.
Level 3
~ Must self-vote at least 3 days.
Semi-Finals
~ Must self-vote all 4 days.
Finals
~ Must self-vote all 4 days.
Championship
~ Must self-vote all 4 days.
You must self-vote the number
of days required for your level
in order to advance to the next level.
If
you do not self-vote
the required number of days you will
not advance
regardless of the number of
votes you have acquired and will be moved to Level 1.
Lack of voting for an entire week will result in your returning to the
Qualifying Level.
Lack of self-voting shows
lack of interest in the competition.
Repeat offenses to this rule
may result in your
removal from the competition.
3) If you
cannot vote on a certain day please advise Management as
to why, otherwise you will be
classified as an inactive member.
4)
You may only vote once daily for the sites of your choice. IP
addresses are
recorded and will be checked.
Additional
votes from the same IP address
will be
classified as ballot stuffing and will be deleted. This will also be
cause for
termination of your membership.
5) You must be
an active member at all times! If your site doesn't
receive any
votes for more then 2 weeks, and your not on LOA,
then your site will be placed on "Hold"
with a possible termination.

Disclaimers
1)
Please know that any winners of this Web Competition will
only receive
graphic
awards. No cash prizes will be given out.
2)
If you win the Finals Level three (3) weeks in a row you will qualify to compete in
our next SWC Championship Tournament.
SWC Championship Tournament runs June 2008 and
December 2008.
Retirement is required until the next SWC Championship
Tournament
in order
to give others a chance at winning.
3)
Should you win the SWC Championship Tournament you will receive
a graphic
award and
a personalized webset.
4)
Salem's Web Competition will not be held responsible for the
content of our
members
websites. We do try to monitor these sites, but it's
impossible to
keep
track of all the pages and the constant changes.
5)
Salem's Web Competition has the right to refuse any website
from
competing
without cause.
6)
Salem's Web Competition cannot be held responsible for any
lost
votes due
to technical difficulties.
7) Salem's Web Competition reserves the right to
revise the rules without prior notice.

If you
agree to the above rules you may fill in an application to
join
Salem's Web Competition by clicking on the following link.




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2008 and Beyond
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