Rules & Regulations

Although the Administrators and Moderators of SailingForums will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this forum, we cannot be responsible for message content. All messages express the views of the author. The owners or the representatives of SailingForums may remove, edit, move, or close topics they feel do not follow the rules.

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.
  Exercise common sense and be considerate toward your fellow users. Diversity of opinion and intelligent civil discourse is encouraged; by the same token, insults and "flaming" are not tolerated. Disagreeing with an idea of another community member is different from attacking that individual.
• Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.
• Do not post off-topic. Please keep your comments consistent with the subject and purpose of the conversation thread. Deliberate disruption — such as consistent off-topic commentary — will not be tolerated.
• Please do not write in all-caps (FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE THIS). Writing in all-caps on the Internet is considered yelling, and besides that, it is extremely hard to read.
• Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum email and Private message system to spam other members.
  
  • What is spamming?
  • What is trolling?
• Please wait a reasonable amount of time before bumping posts. For style changes and general 'how-to' questions this should be 24 hours. For specific troubleshooting issues, use 12 hours as a guideline.
  
  • What is BUMPing?
• We also do not allow posts that are sexual in nature or violate SailingForums community standards. The SailingForums team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.
• While we are quite happy to have constructive comparative conversations about competitor's products, we will not tolerate blatant adverts or the sort of 'ooh look, yet another bulletin board' threads. Also, we would appreciate it if you refrain from blatant bashing of other boards.
• You cannot post any affiliate or referral links, or post anything asking for a referral. Such posts will be subject to removal.
• Also 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 reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.

Any threads/posts of these types will be deleted.