There is no charge for joining this Forum! This is a community of individuals who share a common interest in RVing and camping. Please think before you post and keep your comments limited to the topic at hand and above all be nice. If you have any problems navigating the site or a concern about site content, do not hesitate to let us know. We'll be happy to address your concerns.
Be Courteous!
We aim to ensure that the forum is an enjoyable place that you want to visit time and time again. Many of our community's members have a wealth of knowledge and much to share. Please help new members learn about how to find information and resources and how to get involved in the Community. Our rules extend to all sections of the website, including private messaging.
About the First Amendment, censorship, and your "right to free speech"
We believe in public freedom of speech but that right does not infer that others have to publish your speech. This website is privately owned and requires members to abide by our guidelines and by the decisions of our moderators. If you cannot accept these guidelines please feel free to contact one of the many good web hosting companies out there to set up an account, create your own discussion board and exercise your First Amendment rights to your heart's content.
Site Management, Member Concerns & Account Closure
If site rules are violated, we may remove, edit, or delete posts and if necessary ban or restrict account access. If a moderator deletes or edits one of your posts and you disagree with the action, contact the moderator concerned or any other member of our site team. Do not repost deleted material or use the discussion thread to comment on moderator actions. This forum is largely self-policing, which means that moderators will respond and react to problems reported through the REPORT POST option, or via PM. Do not hesitate to use these tools to report any problem regarding the forum.
Participants may only have one account. Moderators may consolidate or delete multiple accounts. We may remove accounts that have no posts. If the account has many posts, completely deleting the account can significantly disrupt thread continuity. In that event, we may (at our discretion) disable your account in some or all of the following ways: change the display name, remove signature content, subscriptions, avatar and identifying information or replace it with fictitious info. We may change account options to refuse contact and/or ban the account. Where communication features were used to share information with other individuals (e.g., sending a personal message to another Forum user) we generally cannot remove content. If someone quoted your post, the original display name will be shown as having been quoted (which we cannot purge).
Registering and participating here constitutes agreement to abide by the RV LIFE Network Terms of Service and these Community Rules. (RV LIFE is the company that owns this forum). We reserve the right to modify these rules at any time without giving prior notice to you.
Someone has to interpret these guidelines and how they apply to this forum. Ultimately it's up to our site moderators and administrator to make this decision. If you have any questions about these guidelines, please feel free to contact a moderator or administrator. Thanks to everyone for keeping the tone appropriate for a group of friends, at least the vast majority of the time. Please keep it up!
Be Courteous!
We aim to ensure that the forum is an enjoyable place that you want to visit time and time again. Many of our community's members have a wealth of knowledge and much to share. Please help new members learn about how to find information and resources and how to get involved in the Community. Our rules extend to all sections of the website, including private messaging.
- Do not engage in personal attacks. Challenge others' points of view and opinions, but do so respectfully and thoughtfully. Be careful with sarcasm, belligerence, insults, profanity, and anger. Offensive comments about race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, political ideology and national origin, are not acceptable.
- Do not post libelous remarks or directly misleading information.
- Stay on topic by keeping discussions relevant and on track.
- Harassment, stalking or predatory behavior will not be tolerated.
- Do not post the same discussion in more than one forum.
- Participants may not post or bump threads to pad post counts. Bumping is posting useless information, posting one-liners or any other action to deliberately keep a thread hot.
- Posts containing explicit, obscene or vulgar language, images or links to websites with adult content/images or punctuation marks designed to "trick" our obscenity filter will be removed.
- Be mindful of yourself and others. If rules are violated, we retain the right at our discretion to remove, edit or delete posts and if necessary ban or remove members. Any abuse toward our staff may/will result in immediate suspension of your account.
- Public discussion about moderation or moderator decisions is not allowed. If a moderator deletes or edits one of your posts and you disagree with the action, contact the moderator concerned. Do not repost deleted material or use the discussion thread to comment on moderator actions.
- NO SPAM! Our user base is not a resource to be "mined" by individuals, groups, or businesses, for profit or not for profit. Participants may not post affiliate links or direct others to any pages at their own commercial website or website in which they have a commercial interest, including informational pages unless a vendor account has been established and then only as proscribed by the site management.
- Trolling and cyberstalking are NOT allowed and are grounds for account restriction or banishment. Trolling on this board includes posting controversial and often irrelevant or off-topic messages with the intention of (or anticipated result of) baiting other users into an emotional response or to generally disrupt the normal, harmonious on-topic discussion, especially when a pattern of such posting is apparent.
- Discussions about politics, weaponry and religion are permitted only in association with the topic of this forum and will be closed or removed if they become disruptive.
- We take the "be nice" rule VERY seriously! We do not tolerate ANY rudeness.
- The standard font size is 10. The use of bold, large or colored fonts should be used sparingly.
- E-mail and web addresses are not appropriate forum display names.
- Posts should be well formatted. Use paragraphs, punctuation, and capital letters appropriately. The language of this forum is English. If you are not a native English speaker, do your best. We are glad to have you as a member and will be supportive and polite.
- Do not post protected or copyrighted material. Information copyrighted or owned by any individual or entity other than the member should not be posted on the discussion forums without the consent of the owner. If such an event occurs, the individual posting the information shall be held solely responsible. You cannot legally post entire articles or news in the forum without permission from the copyright holder. Even if you attribute the article correctly, it is still copyright infringement. Under Fair Use provisions you may legally post a small abstract of an article - or perhaps the opening paragraph. In either case, please post a link to the source. The exception to this rule is press releases; they are meant for distribution and can be copied and posted in their entirety. If you are not sure if you can copy something, then always err on the side of caution and simply post a link to the material.
- Signatures may not contain commercial links.
- Signatures may not include email addresses, phone numbers, links to competing websites, prompts to contact or a sales pitch.
- Signatures must follow our forum posting standards.
- Place only one ad per item - do not post or repost an ad in more than one section of the classifieds.
- Do not place ads directing others to an e-bay or other online sale or directing others to another website.
- Ads may be removed by our staff at any time for any reason.
- Members who have a commercial interest in participating in our community will be identified as commercial vendors at our discretion. We enforce a very strict policy regarding solicitation of our membership by commercial participants.
- Commercial vendors may not quote prices in any forum.
- Commercial vendors may not use any section of the forum to discuss their products or services unless answering a direct question and even in this case vendors may not quote prices.
- Commercial vendors may place a (1) link to their company website in their signature line (font size 2).
About the First Amendment, censorship, and your "right to free speech"
We believe in public freedom of speech but that right does not infer that others have to publish your speech. This website is privately owned and requires members to abide by our guidelines and by the decisions of our moderators. If you cannot accept these guidelines please feel free to contact one of the many good web hosting companies out there to set up an account, create your own discussion board and exercise your First Amendment rights to your heart's content.
Site Management, Member Concerns & Account Closure
If site rules are violated, we may remove, edit, or delete posts and if necessary ban or restrict account access. If a moderator deletes or edits one of your posts and you disagree with the action, contact the moderator concerned or any other member of our site team. Do not repost deleted material or use the discussion thread to comment on moderator actions. This forum is largely self-policing, which means that moderators will respond and react to problems reported through the REPORT POST option, or via PM. Do not hesitate to use these tools to report any problem regarding the forum.
Participants may only have one account. Moderators may consolidate or delete multiple accounts. We may remove accounts that have no posts. If the account has many posts, completely deleting the account can significantly disrupt thread continuity. In that event, we may (at our discretion) disable your account in some or all of the following ways: change the display name, remove signature content, subscriptions, avatar and identifying information or replace it with fictitious info. We may change account options to refuse contact and/or ban the account. Where communication features were used to share information with other individuals (e.g., sending a personal message to another Forum user) we generally cannot remove content. If someone quoted your post, the original display name will be shown as having been quoted (which we cannot purge).
Registering and participating here constitutes agreement to abide by the RV LIFE Network Terms of Service and these Community Rules. (RV LIFE is the company that owns this forum). We reserve the right to modify these rules at any time without giving prior notice to you.
Someone has to interpret these guidelines and how they apply to this forum. Ultimately it's up to our site moderators and administrator to make this decision. If you have any questions about these guidelines, please feel free to contact a moderator or administrator. Thanks to everyone for keeping the tone appropriate for a group of friends, at least the vast majority of the time. Please keep it up!
