Jeep Wrangler Forum

		Jeep Wrangler Forum
Community Rules

Community Rules

Community Guidelines

The goal of Wrangler Forum is to provide a friendly and informative place for people to share info, meet fellow Jeep owners, help each other with Jeep related projects and repair issues, post adventure reports, learn about issues that affect the 4 x 4 community and hang out in general. Over the years the Wrangler forum has grown from a small group of rockers to a larger community for Jeep owners with a wide variety of interests. Our forum is intended to reflect our sport and the Jeep community in general. That is why it exists, please respect your fellow Wrangler owners online just as you would on the road.

This forum is largely self-policing, the Wrangler Forum Crew (moderators and administrators) have no desire to censor or control the conversations that happen here. Most of us, while we welcome perspectives on all sides of any issue, would not invite a frequently and apparently intentionally disruptive or rude person to wheel with us, nor to any other gathering of friends that we are hosting.

Respect Each Other: Our underlying philosophy is that we want The Wrangler Forum to be an online reflection of the wheeling community. Treat each other with respect just as you would on the road. Talking smack or challenging others' points of view and opinions is fine as long as you do so in a respectful manner.

Here are some general guidelines that we expect you to follow:

• Do not engage in personal attacks.
• Do not post libelous remarks or directly misleading information.
• Do not post the same discussion topic more than once or in many forums.
• Please post topics in their proper forums.
• Do not take every opportunity to express your disagreement, incite argument, insult each other, or fan flames. Voice you opinion respectfully and then let it go.
• We will not tolerate bigotry in any form, including posts intended to incite expressions of such bigotry from others.
• This is a sport dominated in numbers by men; as such the Forum can easily take on a little too much of a "boys club" tone. We do have a lot of women (members) visiting and posting, we want them to feel welcome at our party. Rule of thumb: if you wouldn't say it to your grandmother you probably shouldn't post it on the Forum either.
• Posts containing vulgar language that are overly explicit or obscene, images or links to websites with adult content/images are not allowed.
• Trolling and/or Cyber-bullying are NOT allowed and grounds for account restriction.
• 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. Complaints about moderator decisions may not be made in posts; instead send a private message to a moderator. 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.
• Fair warning; discussions about politics and religion are likely to be closed or removed if they turn into flame fests.

Posting standards: Forum members may use standard fonts available on the forum. The standard font size is 2. 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 addresses and web addresses are not appropriate forum user names.

Signature Standards: Signatures are setup in your profile. They will appear at the bottom of every post you make.

Signatures must be kept to a maximum of six lines (including blank lines) and contain no more than two links (no commercial links permitted). Participants may not post affiliate links.
Signature may not include email addresses or prompts to contact or a sales pitch.
Signatures cannot contain lewd, vulgar or offensive material and we reserve the right to alter or remove your signature and or it's contents at any time without explanation.
Signatures must follow our forums posting standards and only one line may be bolded.

Classifieds Use: Our classifieds system is offered as a benefit of membership, no commercial sales are permitted. We expect ads placed to be related to the topic of this forum. Only members with 15 posts or more may post new ads.

Include the name of the item in the title of your post
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.

Wrangler Forum Official Sponsoring Vendors To support our commitment to provide a member based Wrangler resource community, Wrangler Forum accepts sponsorship and advertising from companies providing quality products and services. We value our site vendors and the expertise and experience they bring to wheeling community.

Vendors are encouraged to post and join in general forum conversations. Vendors may post information about their products to answer questions posed by any members including pricing but may not instigate promotional discussions (except in the Vendors forum).
Vendors have a forum specifically dedicated to product announcements, deals and services. Here is a link to that forum. Deals, specials and promotions may be posted in this area of the forum only.
Vendors may offer information that points out the differences between their product and a competing product only if it serves to clarify an issue but may not post in a disparaging way about a competitors product.
Vendors signatures may contain a link to their company website or a commercial banner (with embedded link) to promote their product or company. Phone numbers or e-mail address may be posted in member profiles but not in signatures.

Commercial Members (For-profit companies, Industry Professionals, non-sponsoring vendors):
The forum does not discourage nor endorse any commercial entity and is not intended for soliciting business by commercial entities (advertising info). Our purpose is sharing knowledge so others can benefit. Commercial members must adhere to all the forum policies including these specifically set out for commercial participants. If you are interested in becoming one of our industry pros please contact any moderator to inquire about having your account changed.

Commercial members may place a (1) embedded link to their company website in their signature line (font size 2) but may not include any other any commercial content in their signatures. An embedded link looks like this: Social Knowledge Network
Members with a commercial interest in participating in our community may be identified as commercial members at our discretion.
Commercial members may post sales and deals in the the commercial section of the classifieds forum.
Commercial members may not solicit our membership or advertise except as specifically allowed in these policies or by prior arrangements with SK networks. This includes: posting prices, directing members to phone for more info 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.
Commercial members may not post product comparisons.
Commercial members may not use any section of the forum (except the commercial classifieds) to discuss their products or services unless answering a direct question and even in this case may not quote prices.

Dealer/Vendor and Customer Disputes: This forum is not intended to be a mechanism for people to vent frustrations about vendors or sales from private parties. Please settle your differences with sellers, manufacturers and dealers through the long-established legal or arbitration systems or the Better Business Bureau but not through our community.

Do not post protected / copyrighted content: Information copyrighted or owned by any individual or entity other than the member should not be posted on the forums without the consent of the owner. Copyrighted material includes images and text produced and owned by others. If such an event occurs, the individual posting the information shall be held solely responsible. You cannot legally post entire articles or news on the forum without permission from the copyright holder. Even if you attribute the article correctly it’s still copyright infringement. Under Fair Use provisions you can legally post a small abstract of an article - or perhaps the opening paragraph. The exception to this rule is press releases; they are meant for distribution and can be copied and distributed. 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.

About the First Amendment, censorship and your "right to free speech": You do indeed have a right to free speech. However this forum 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 that right to your heart's content.

Site Management & Member Concerns: If we feel site rules are violated we may remove, edit or delete posts and if necessary ban or restrict account access. Abuse toward our administrators or moderators may result in suspension of your account. Complaints about a moderator's decision regarding a particular post are not to be made in posts; instead send a private message to a moderator. 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. This forum is largely self-policing, which means that moderators will respond and react to problems reported through the REPORT POST option, via the CONTACT FORM at the bottom of each page, or via PM. Do not hesitate to use these tools to report any problems regarding the forum.

Account Management: Requests for changes to your account should be made by using the Contact Us link at the bottom of every forum page. Participants may only have one account. Moderators may consolidate or delete multiple accounts.

Disabling 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 (if requested and at our discretion) disable your account in some or all of the following ways:

Change the user name, remove signature content, subscriptions, avatar and any info from the profile that might be identifying or replace it with fictitious info, change account options to refuse contact and ban 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 user name will be shown as having been quoted (which we cannot purge).

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!

Registering and participating on Wrangler Forum constitutes agreement to abide by these rules and to abide by the Social Knowledge Network Terms of Service (Social Knowledge, LLC is the company that owns this forum) We reserve the right to modify these rules at any time without prior notice.

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