JB
Honorary Moderator Emeritus
- Joined
- Mar 25, 2001
- Messages
- 45,907
Moderators will edit or delete any posts in violation of the following, and may warn, issue infractions, suspend or permanently ban any member for serious or repeated violations.
We strongly discourage the use of any personal information to be used on the public Forum (such as email address, home address, home phone numbers, etc.). If you must share personal information with someone, use Private Messages.
1. This is a family site. All content posted must be family appropriate. The use of foul or insulting language or the posting of any material not judged suitable by the Moderator Team is forbidden. Substituting characters, misspelling or spacing text is still considered foul language. Disagreements on any topic must be conducted in a polite manner using courteous language.
2. Political, religious or socially controversial topics or references are not allowed.
3. Do not post copyrighted material or request that anyone else violate copyright law.
4. Attacks (bashing) on any person, organization, company or other entity will not be permitted. Reporting experiences with any vendor, website or organization must be limited to facts. Unqualified attacks will be considered bashing.
5. Photos also need to be in good taste and family friendly. Photo instructions may be found here: Photo Upload Tutorial
6. Forum Members representing marine-related businesses may participate in forum discussions, but they may not post in the forum to promote any personal enterprise, a business, or a product, or to solicit responses for contests, polls and the like. The following conditions apply:
7. You may not solicit any personal transaction (buy, sell, rent, trade, free, donate, etc.) in the forum. Personal transactions arranged completely by Private Message are not affected by this rule. Solicitation by PM must be preceded by contact in the forum. Please note: threads or posts that give extensive details on anything that is for sale will be assumed to be an attempt to advertise and are subject to deletion. Any attempt to sell in the forums will be edited or deleted, including but not limited to profiles and signatures.
8. If you have questions, concerns, suggestions or complaints about the rules, moderation, or management of this site please contact a moderator via PM or iboats management for discussion. It is forbidden to debate these rules or their enforcement in the forum.
If you have problems, questions, feedback or suggestions about the forums or the iboats website, please post your comments HERE.
9. If you are suspended and re-register with a second screen name you will be permanently banned.
10. Please do not post multiple threads in multiple forums about a single problem. This is confusing to those trying to help you. Multiple threads in the same forum about the same issue are also confusing. If you want help fast, one thread in the most closely related forum is the best way to get it.
11. Please do not post to threads that have been inactive for more than approximately 3 months UNLESS you are the original poster. We have very active forums and any thread that remains inactive for that long should be considered "dead".
It is especially confusing when there is an entirely new question or topic posted to an old or on-going thread. This is considered a hijack. Hijacked threads may be closed and/or hijacking posts may be deleted or moved at the discretion of the Moderators. Please start a new thread of your own for the best possible help from forum members.
NOTE: Some threads are never ending due to the subject or nature of the thread. Administration and Moderators do take this into consideration.
12. Non-Genuine Forum Participants, such as Bots, sock-puppets, imposters, and the like will be removed from the forums as they are identified. Members may be asked to substantiate their identity should they be considered as possibly a non-genuine participant.
Private Messages
Rules 7 and 8 allow certain topics in Private Messages that are not allowed in the forum. All other rules apply to Private Messages as well as forum posts.
Post Editing
You are allowed 1 hour after initially creating a post to edit the content. If you would like something changed or updated, please contact a moderator.
Additional Information: Terms of Use Privacy Policy
We strongly discourage the use of any personal information to be used on the public Forum (such as email address, home address, home phone numbers, etc.). If you must share personal information with someone, use Private Messages.
1. This is a family site. All content posted must be family appropriate. The use of foul or insulting language or the posting of any material not judged suitable by the Moderator Team is forbidden. Substituting characters, misspelling or spacing text is still considered foul language. Disagreements on any topic must be conducted in a polite manner using courteous language.
2. Political, religious or socially controversial topics or references are not allowed.
3. Do not post copyrighted material or request that anyone else violate copyright law.
4. Attacks (bashing) on any person, organization, company or other entity will not be permitted. Reporting experiences with any vendor, website or organization must be limited to facts. Unqualified attacks will be considered bashing.
5. Photos also need to be in good taste and family friendly. Photo instructions may be found here: Photo Upload Tutorial
6. Forum Members representing marine-related businesses may participate in forum discussions, but they may not post in the forum to promote any personal enterprise, a business, or a product, or to solicit responses for contests, polls and the like. The following conditions apply:
- Their USERNAME may be the name of their business (but is discouraged and will be watched closely for advertising violations). Links to business websites may not be in a member’s signature, but may exist in their profile information.
- Avatars as business logos are acceptable and any profile information about a business should be limited to business name, website, and any related credentials.
- Overt attempts to advertise a business in the forums, member profiles, signatures, or elsewhere on the forum is prohibited.
- Links to boating related educational material shall be allowed though they are fully subject to discretion depending on their intended type, timing, business, use, and manner of distribution.
7. You may not solicit any personal transaction (buy, sell, rent, trade, free, donate, etc.) in the forum. Personal transactions arranged completely by Private Message are not affected by this rule. Solicitation by PM must be preceded by contact in the forum. Please note: threads or posts that give extensive details on anything that is for sale will be assumed to be an attempt to advertise and are subject to deletion. Any attempt to sell in the forums will be edited or deleted, including but not limited to profiles and signatures.
8. If you have questions, concerns, suggestions or complaints about the rules, moderation, or management of this site please contact a moderator via PM or iboats management for discussion. It is forbidden to debate these rules or their enforcement in the forum.
If you have problems, questions, feedback or suggestions about the forums or the iboats website, please post your comments HERE.
9. If you are suspended and re-register with a second screen name you will be permanently banned.
10. Please do not post multiple threads in multiple forums about a single problem. This is confusing to those trying to help you. Multiple threads in the same forum about the same issue are also confusing. If you want help fast, one thread in the most closely related forum is the best way to get it.
11. Please do not post to threads that have been inactive for more than approximately 3 months UNLESS you are the original poster. We have very active forums and any thread that remains inactive for that long should be considered "dead".
It is especially confusing when there is an entirely new question or topic posted to an old or on-going thread. This is considered a hijack. Hijacked threads may be closed and/or hijacking posts may be deleted or moved at the discretion of the Moderators. Please start a new thread of your own for the best possible help from forum members.
NOTE: Some threads are never ending due to the subject or nature of the thread. Administration and Moderators do take this into consideration.
12. Non-Genuine Forum Participants, such as Bots, sock-puppets, imposters, and the like will be removed from the forums as they are identified. Members may be asked to substantiate their identity should they be considered as possibly a non-genuine participant.
Private Messages
Rules 7 and 8 allow certain topics in Private Messages that are not allowed in the forum. All other rules apply to Private Messages as well as forum posts.
Post Editing
You are allowed 1 hour after initially creating a post to edit the content. If you would like something changed or updated, please contact a moderator.
Additional Information: Terms of Use Privacy Policy
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