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Colorado Four Wheelers Internet Decorum

Welcome to Colorado Four Wheelers! We hope you enjoy your stay here. If you are new to the community, please take a moment to read through the following list of rules and sanctions regarding this forum. Members that have been here a while may want to read through this also, just to make sure nothing has been added that they may have missed. If you have a question or concern, feel free to send one of the moderators a private message (PM).

By using this web site, you agree to be contacted by site administration, regardless of your account settings, when it becomes necessary to do so, regarding your account activity.

We have a very active moderation team and a lot of members who will remind you of the rules should you not stick to them.

1. Feel free to “lurk and listen”. While we hope that you'll become an active participant and join in our discussions, you're welcome, of course, to simply hang out silently until you feel more comfortable posting a message.

2. When newcomers arrive, say "hi" and welcome them to our growing community. Many of our community's "old timers" (regardless of age) are a wealth of knowledge and have much to share. Help new folks "learn the ropes" about how to find information and resources, save time, and how to get involved with our growing membership. Remember to give patience to new members as they explore the forums. Being rude to new members is highly discouraged.

3. Keep your posts, avatars and signatures tasteful. The forums of Coloradofourwheelers.org are a place for PG material only. Explicit, obscene or vulgar gestures, language, GIFs, JPEGs or other graphic files are NOT appropriate. Message board titles, posts, avatars, and signatures in all forums that contain anything that is not considered PG material will not be tolerated and will be moved or deleted without notice! The enforcement and definition of PG is solely the responsibility of the Administrators and Moderators.

4. Coloradofourwheelers.org reserves the right to remove any post that does not relate to the topic being discussed or is considered inappropriate on the board. In addition, Coloradofourwheelers.org reserves the right to organize message boards (or folders) in order to best serve the majority of our members. For example, narrow-interest or minimal activity topics may, at Coloradofourwheelers.org‘s discretion, be relocated to a more appropriate forum, or deleted entirely. Coloradofourwheelers.org also reserves the right to prohibit or delete messages that are thought to violate applicable law or that may be harmful to other members, or the rights of Coloradofourwheelers.org or others.

5. We also reserve the right to remove your Coloradofourwheelers.org membership should you violate its rules or should we deem necessary. Any decision to ban a member for abuse of any of these rules, or for whatever reason, will be made by the administrative team.

FORUM RULES

No flaming, trolling, spamming, or bullying! Keep it civil. Be respectful of other member’s opinions. It's great to disagree but personal attacks or harassment will not be tolerated. Also, do not reveal any personal information about any other member without their knowledge or consent... violation of this rule may result in an immediate ban. Definitions from Wikipedia are as follows:

Trolling - Forum trolls are users that repeatedly and deliberately breach the netiquette of an established online community, posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages to bait or excite users into responding or to test the forum rules and policies, and with that the patience of the forum staff. Their provocative behavior may potentially start flame wars or other disturbances. Responding to a troll's provocations is commonly known as 'feeding the troll' and is generally discouraged, as it can encourage their disruptive behavior.

Spamming - a breach of netiquette where users repeat the same word or phrase over and over, but differs from multiple posting in that spamming is usually a willful act which sometimes has malicious intent. This is a common trolling technique. It can also be traditional spam, unpaid advertisements that are in breach of the forum's rules.

Flaming - When a thread—or in some cases an entire forum—becomes unstable the result is usually uncontrolled spam in the form of one-line complaints or abuse of the report system. When the discussion becomes heated and sides do nothing more than complain and not accept each other's differences in point of view, the discussion degenerates into what is called a flame war. To flame someone means to go off-topic and attack the person rather than their opinion. Likely candidates for flame wars are usually religion and socio-political topics, or topics that discuss pre-existing rivalries outside the forum (e.g.: rivalry between games, console systems, car manufacturers, nationalities, etc.)

Posting will not be allowed until a club application has been received. From the date of your application, you will have six months to give us a try and let us get to know you, as you will get to know us.

Post in the correct forum. If you are unsure which forum to start your thread under, post it under whatever you think most suits it. A moderator will move the thread to the correct forum if necessary.

No cross posting. Post your message once or it will be locked or deleted without warning.

Use a title that describes the content of your post. Don't use all caps or special characters to draw attention.

Please don’t post just to increase your number of posts. If you have nothing to say on a certain matter then do not post at all. The number of posts on this board has no direct relation to the experience of a member. Also try not to post one word replies.

Political and religious debates do not have a place on this site; please refrain from discussing these topics.

Linking to illegally distributed copyright music is not permitted! Do not link to music files unless they are freely available on the artist's web site or an RIAA approved downloading service.

Posts and usernames will not be removed from the forums upon your request.

This is a family site, please use clean language. Obscene language is prohibited. Posts that are hateful, inciting, threatening, or otherwise violate any laws are prohibited. Racial slurs and homosexual bashing are considered hateful and inciting and will not be tolerated.

Do not threaten or harass administrators or moderators. Any public or private attacks on the staff may result in immediate banning. If you have a question or concern regarding an administrative decision, please contact the club President for clarification.

Comments made in threads by members do not necessarily reflect the opinions of administrators or moderators.

Duplicate accounts are not permitted. Formerly banned members are not permitted to return.

Dramatic departures and threats to leave the forums are not permitted. If you choose to leave the site, please do so with dignity and respect.

You may not post on behalf of any banned member in any public manner. This includes all forums, private messages, signatures, and e-mail features.

You may not link, in any manner, to sites or images containing pornography, sexually explicit, gross violence, or are determined by moderators to be detrimental to the community.

Any posts that encourage illegal intent will be removed and the account disabled.

If you have a personal problem with another member, please discuss it in private. This board is not the place to speak out against others.

Attacks on administrators will not be tolerated and will result in an immediate ban. If a problem arises with a member of the administrative team, please contact another member of the administrative team to voice your concern. Do not use this forum as a soapbox for any problems that you have with a member of the administrative team.

This site uses the user infraction system that is built into Vbulletin. Each infraction carries a set number of points. Once a member gets enough infractions to go over the point limit they are automatically banned by Vbulletin. Users may get an infraction for everything from sigs being too big to flaming or trolling. Sig violations won't get a user banned just be aware that it means your sig is too big and needs to be sized down. Most other infractions will result in a ban if you get enough infractions to go over the limit.

It is your responsibility to understand the rules and regulations of this site. Ignorance is not an excuse.

As in real life, there must be some measures put into place for people who keep infringing on the rules, in real life it's the penal code, here are the sanctions for this forum:

1. Each moderator can report you for violating a forum rule. Such a report contains a timestamp, the forum rule you violated and the post in question. Such a report will result in you getting a "strike". The report will point out the number of strikes left until you will be suspended (more about that later). As in baseball’s "3 strikes and you’re out", your 3 strikes have to occur within a month's time or they will be forgotten. A suspension involves the following:

*No access to user profiles

*Modification of the user profile is disabled

*Posting is disabled

*Downloading attachments is disabled

*Private messaging is disabled

2. After 30 days of suspension your account will be reinstated as we believe everybody should get a second chance. The strike list will start from zero again. If a member should continue to violate forum rules and gets suspended once more his/her account will be terminated without further notice.

3. If you wish to contest a strike send a PM to a moderator with a reference to the post in question and an explanation why you think the strike is not justified. In case of a suspension you can send a complaint to the President of the club. By publicly complaining about a strike in any way (starting with pointing out "I've received a strike for this and that"), or go badmouthing this forum and its members on another board, you also forfeit your rights to appeal and the strike will be permanent without exception.

RULES AND SANCTIONS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. PLEASE CHECK BACK OCCASIONALLY TO STAY INFORMED.