CafePress is dedicated to its community, a diverse group of Shopkeepers, Affiliates, and Customers. The CafePress Community Forum is a way for the community to have a voice, and interact with one another. With our Forum, members can facilitate and participate in a helpful and positive environment. Here CafePress users can network and develop their business with the aid of other users.
By participating in the CafePress Community Forums, you are agreeing to the rules and guidelines we have created and outlined for you. These guidelines are intended for all users, including Forum Moderators. Before posting, please read the Frequently Asked Questions & Answers or "Read me first" posts (symbolized with a red exclamation mark) at the top of that forum as your question may be answered already. Please remember, that the CafePress Community Forum is a place for peer-to-peer support from other Shopkeepers, Affiliates and users. Customer Support inquiries should be directed towards our Customer Support Department. Our representatives are ready to help you. Additionally we have several other community resources readily available for you to find information and help guide your CafePress experience. To report a bug or site issue, please take a moment to complete our online bug report.
Most importantly, we believe in the golden rule and using "Netiquette." Please treat and interact with fellow members using the same respect and courtesy that you would like others to give you. Be sure to review your entries before posting to ensure accurate information as well as to avoid any misunderstanding due to poorly worded posts.
If you have any question about your post, refrain from submitting and revise. If you feel that another member’s posts are inappropriate, email a link to communityteam@cafepress.com. In the spirit of the CafePress Community please help keep our boards a fun, educational, and welcoming place for members. And now the official rules and guidelines…
Community Forum Rules
You agree not to hold CafePress.com or its members liable for anything stated within the forums. Messages posted at this site are the sole opinion and responsibility of the poster. CafePress.com makes no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness or adequacy of the information contained within the forums.
CafePress.com and it forum moderators reserve the right to remove, edit or delete without notice any and all content placed in these forums.
Moderator and/ or CafePress action may be final. Actions may be reversed by CafePress or a moderator after review of the matter. If you have a problem with any action please email communityteam@cafepress.com.
Using the forum to solicit discussions (via email or Private Message) contrary to the guidelines may be considered unacceptable.
CafePress.com reserves the right, but does not assume the obligation, to monitor transactions and communications that occur in these forums. All on site private discussions (Private Messaging) with moderators/ administrators related to forum policy/ actions may be shared with administrators if necessary.
It is your responsibility to be familiar and remain updated to current Community Forum Guidelines. All users of these forums must comply with these guidelines. Infractions of any guideline may result in revocation of forum privileges.
General Community Forum Guidelines for Posting
1. Before posting, please read the Frequently Asked Questions & Answers or "Read me first" posts at the top of that forum as your question may be answered already.
2. Posts, nicknames, signatures, avatars, and general content that are inflammatory, vulgar, sexually explicit, inappropriate, rude or otherwise will not be tolerated and will be removed.
3. Follow the Golden Rule. Always be respectful of each other, CafePress employees, and Forum Moderators. Be civil, clean, and decent in all posts. Open discussions of varying points of view are encouraged but only if they remain constructive and not inflammatory. Flaming or personal attacks are not allowed or tolerated. Anyone using/ posting inappropriate content, language, starting personal attacks, engaging in hate speeches and rants, or being disruptive to the Community's positive environment may be barred from all further discussions and/ or the CafePress Community Forums completely.
4.The Community Forum system is not a venue for personal or private vendettas or causes, including political debates. If you become involved in a dispute or have a problem with another forum member, moderator, or CafePress.com please email communityteam@cafepress.com.
5. Links to adult content, pages with links to adult content, or messages describing anything inconsistent with the CafePress.com Content Usage Policy, TOS, or Community Forum Guidelines will be removed.
6. Do not post copyrighted material (e.g. Articles) written by others without their permission.
7. Do not include names or links to competitor sites or names/ contact information.
8. Do not post altered-text as an attempt to defeat forum word-filters or otherwise circumvent the rules.
9. All users must enable the private messaging system and must be able to receive private messages from all forum moderators. Abuse of the forum or private message system will not be tolerated.
10. Animations are not allowed for avatars. Images and screenshots are not permitted in posts or signatures. Please see the Signatures Guidelines for information on how to create your signature.
11. If you have concerns about other shopkeeper designs or general theft do not post about them in the forums. Please refrain from making allegations of infringement. Instead contact CUP@cafepress.com directly.
12. Keep thread discussions on topic, and within the subject of the forum. Please do not “hijack” or “bump” the thread gain additional exposure to a post or yourself. Cross-posting within other forums and threads is also not encouraged.
13. The forums are not a venue for non-shopkeeper/CafePress or unrelated sites or services. Content that is posted for the sole-purpose of unrelated promotion (e.g. Spam) will be removed and may result in a permanent loss of forum privileges.
14. Posting referral links (links to services where you get “referral credit” for sending people there) is subject to restrictions. Please specify in your post that your link is a referral. The link must be relevant to the topic in which you are posting. Not telling forum members that your link is a referral, or trying to hide it behind the TinyURL.com (or similar) service is considered spamming the message board.
15. Anyone posting another member’s personal or website details, without permission, will be banned. Please do not, nor is it advised, to post sensitive or confidential information to the forum about yourself or other members (i.e. account information, private communications with CP staff, moderators, or other shopkeepers, etc.). If such information is needed please email it to communityteam@cafepress.com.
What Happens if I Break the Rules? Many times members don’t realize that they have gone against guidelines. That is why it your responsibility to always remain up to date with all Forum rules and guidelines. In general, we follow a three strikes policy. Please keep in mind that all infractions are different, and will be handled on an individual basis. Depending on the severity, CafePress reserves the right to follow a different course of action.
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Customer Support and Technical inquiries This includes any personal inquires/ issues you may have regarding either orders you have placed or are pending in your account, account information, commissions and payments, site issues/ bugs and or other issues that need immediate attention and resolution. communityteam@cafepress.com and PM’s to moderators/ CP employees (unless otherwise stated) should only be used for forum specific issues.
Contacting Customer Support By Email Please fill out our Online Form By Phone Monday – Saturday 9:00 am – 9:00 pm EST Toll Free 1-877-809-1659 Local/International 1-402-517-4480
Message Board Moderators for most forums consist of volunteer moderators who are not CafePress.com employees. On certain forums there are also CafePress.com employee moderators.
The CafePress Community Forum Moderator screen names are: Angelstorm, Blipfish, buytees, dtgoomba, Fricka, Greekette, lilgoodies, lorilei363, magentastudios, Matt, P:Art, Pristinephoto, Ophelia, RowdyJRT, Teesed.com. CafePress.com employees who participate in the Community Forum will include “CP” in their screen name.
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Signatures must comply with all guidelines outlined in the Forum Guidelines and the CafePress.com Terms of Service . Please review both for familiarity.
Your signature can consist of a maximum of 5 single-spaced lines (not including salutation and name), of text and spaces only. Images and animations should not be a part of your signature. No inflammatory content.
Signatures should not include any of the following: Affiliate links (CafePress or otherwise), JAVA, Javascript or other dynamic content, AJAX, or iframes.
Links to non-CP, commercial, non-homepage/personal sites may be subject to CafePress/Moderator approval.
Please keep your signature nice and tidy. Sigs should not distort the layout or usability of the CafePress Community Forum (ie. extremely large fonts, tables, cells, and excessively listing links).
Your signature should be able to fit within the example shown below. ^ | Sig Line 5 (Signatures taller than this are not allowed to ride.) | Sig Line 4 | Sig Line 3 | Sig Line 2 | Sig Line 1 v
CafePress and the forum moderators may make judgment calls and have final say on all aspects of signature size, forum performance, and general issues of signatures.
Remember, your signature is a stamp for your business. You’ll want to create one that the audience will receive warmly, and remember. If you have questions about or need assistance creating a signature, please feel free to contact a community forum moderator or email communityteam@cafepress.com.
If you are encountering a bug or issue that is not allowing the site to work as it should it is imperative that you complete our online bug report/ submission form
When completing a bug report, please be prepared to share the following information:
Short description of issue:
Steps taken for this "bug" to occur: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
What do you expect to happen? What is happening instead?
Politics will always be a hot topic for discussion, and debate. With elections so close, we know many of you are cranking out ideas and designs for your shop. For some it is a passion, and we encourage you keep doing what you do best. If you would like to promote or show off your new designs, feel free to do so in the appropriate forum, Shop/Design Feedback. If you would like to share a current event that’s creating excitement please use the Trend n’ Buzz forum.
It is natural and expected for community members to have opposing points of view. Please keep in mind that the Community Forum system is not a venue for personal or private vendetta's or causes, including political debates, but rather to showcase and critique the designs that are posted, or pass on a good idea. Political debates are discouraged on the CafePress.com message board, and may result in a closed thread, including in the General Chit Chat.
We have found that such debates have become the flame for potentially larger issues which can divide the community and be counterproductive to its growth.
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