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Community Rules

There is no charge for joining this Forum! This is a community of individuals who share a common interest in RVs and we're glad you're here. Please think before you post and keep your comments limited to the topic at hand and above all be nice. Please think before you post, 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.
  • 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. This forum is not a democracy; it is privately owned and we make the rules. 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 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.

Posting Standards
  • Forum members should use the standard fonts available on the forum. The standard font size is 10. The use of bold, large or colored fonts should be used sparingly. Posts containing inappropriate formatting will be removed or modified at our discretion; e.g. all caps or excessive color.
  • 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
  • Signatures must be setup in your profile rather than manually added to your messages. They will appear at the bottom of every post you make.
  • 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.

Classifieds Posting
Our classifieds are offered as a benefit of membership. We expect ads placed to be related to camping and outdoorsmanship and that items be of interest to our community. The classified system is intended for general consumer use. Any commercial seller including but not limited to individuals who buy and sell for profit, dealerships, and consignment sellers must contact us for approval to use our classifieds. Failure to do so could result in your account being terminated.
  • Place only one listing per item.
  • Ad copy should be descriptive of the item being sold and not used to promote any person or business.
  • Do not place ads for items available for sale on other websites or directing others to another sales listing without prior approval.
  • Classifieds are NOT to be used for off topic chatter or general discussions about a buyer or sellers ad but are intended for posts directly related to questions about the item for sale or trade. Off topic posts will be removed.
  • Do not include personal contact information in your posts or post sales negotiations (use direct messaging for this).
  • Sellers must mark their ads as sold when the item has been sold.

Commercial Parties (For-profit companies and Industry professionals)
The forum does not discourage nor endorse any commercial entity and is not intended for soliciting business. Our purpose is sharing knowledge so others can benefit. We may at our discretion, grant commercial account status to industry professionals who are already members in good standing. Any member with an RV-related product, service or company, whether for profit or not for profit, may make a request to become a Commercial Member. Authorized commercial participants must adhere to all the forum policies including these specifically set out for commercial participants.
  • Members who have a commercial interest in participating in our community will be identified as commercial members at our discretion.
  • Commercial members may not solicit our membership or advertise except as specifically allowed in these policies or by prior arrangements with RV LIFE. This includes: posting prices, directing members to phone for more info, sending unsolicited messages regarding products and services or directing members to any pages at their own commercial website or website in which they have a commercial interest in, including informational pages.
  • Commercial members will refrain from making direct, emotionally charged, posts to, or about competitors and may not post product comparisons.
  • Commercial members may not use the forum to promote their products (see exception for classifieds) or services unless answering a direct question and even in this case may not quote prices.
  • Commercial Members may use the classifieds forums to items for sale, special offers, etc and may include pricing information.
  • Commercial members may have their business name incorporated into their signature block and a (1) link to their website. Commercial members may include their business telephone number within their profile (but not in their signature).

Dealer/Vendor and Customer Disputes
This forum is not intended to be a mechanism for people to solely vent frustrations about services, products, vendors, or sales. Please settle your differences with the seller, provider, manufacturer, or dealer through other means but not through our community.

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 privately owned and we require members to abide by our rules and by the decisions of our staff. If you post outside these guidelines your post may be edited or deleted - any law or constitutional right your country may have regarding freedom of speech does not apply to this site.

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 problems 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 the above guidelines and how they apply to this forum. Ultimately it's up to our site team to make this decision. If you have any questions about these guidelines, please feel free to contact us.
 
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