FishOntario.com Conduct Policy:

The policies outlined below are strictly enforced and are there so that all users feel comfortable posting and interacting.

If any of the guidelines are broken, the moderators have full discretion to suspend or ban any user without notice, depending on the severity of the infraction.

Thank you for using the FishOntario forums.

GUIDELINES: Offensive language, including all racial, ethnic or sexual slurs, as well as personal attacks, including name-calling and insults directed at other Forum members is prohibited.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding any specific organizations including fishing and outdoor companies, please contact them directly. This forum is not a place to air personal grievances, speculation or defamation. Any posts that DO NOT meet the above guidelines will be deleted without warning and will lead to permanent expulsion.

MODERATORS: Moderators are active members of the community and have been empowered with the ability to not only police the forums but to give guidance and help facilitate discussion. They understand our conduct policy and are able to enforce it, and what they deem inappropriate. However, if you feel that your post has inappropriately been removed please e-mail us at: alert@fishontario.com with the appropriate information about your post and your account.

The following rules will be enforced. Violation will lead to temporary or permanent expulsion from the site.

1. Any discussion and promotion of illegal actives or information that is deliberately misleading.

2. Controversial, religious or political threads may be deemed inappropriate or needlessly provocative and removed.

3. Personal insults, inappropriate or offensive content, the incitement of violence, or disrupting behaviours, which are detrimental to discussions in the forum will not be tolerated.

In case you are uncertain as to what defines inappropriate content, a simple test is to ask yourself the following questions when you make a post:
A)Is this message fishing-related?
B)Is this message something that most members would like to read?
C)Does this message add value to this forum?
D)Is this something I would say to a person face-to-face?

If you cannot answer yes to any of these questions, please reconsider posting your message. Please note that this also includes complaints about other forum users, question to site admin, etc. All comments of this nature are to be e-mailed to: alert@fishontario.com. As usual, we also encourage all users to immediately contact us at this address if and when they read an objectionable message.

4. Images cannot contain overtly sexual or violent content, and must not violate copyright laws.

5. Do not post copyrighted material(text, images)into threads. If you would like to bring other stories, articles, blogs, images etc. to the attention of others please post a link only to the original source material.

6. Multiple accounts or identities are not allowed. If you are caught using more then one account/identity, you risk permanent expulsion.

7. Swearing.

8. Advertising the sale or promotion of commercial goods and services or illegal or questionable merchandise is prohibited.

9. All items posted for sale in the Classifieds Forums MUST include a price. This is NOT an Auction/bidding site, and linking to off site auctions is prohibited, "Make me an offer" with no posted base price will be summarily deleted. You may post for trades only without a price only if you are looking for specific items in trade. The item / items being sought must be listed in the post. FishOntario.com does not endorse or validate any buyer or seller.

10. DO NOT comment on the seller's asking price. Also DO NOT post any comments unrelated to the actual sale of the item up for sale. Unrelated/off topic/disruptive posts will be deleted without notice. Please DO NOT post "PM Sent" or "E-mail" sent. All this does is unnecessarily keep bumping the post back to the top."PM Sent" or "E-Mail" posts will be deleted.

11. If you have multiple items up for sale, PLEASE put them in one post. This keeps the posts of others from being pushed further down the page. There are to be only TWO current listings per member in any of the Forums at one time. Any listings in excess of the two allowed posts will be deleted without warning.

12. Do not constantly "bump", or BTT(back to top)your for sale post. Your item for sale is no more important then anyone else's. Members will be allowed to "BTT" or "Bump" their for sale/trade posts ONCE PER WEEK ONLY. One week is defined as seven days from your original post or your last "bump" post. Any listings that have been bumped early will be deleted.

13. If your item has been sold, or a deal is pending, please edit your ad to reflect this. Please put the word "delete" in the thread title, this would make the job of board cleanup much easier.

14. Any listings/posts that DO NOT meet the above guidelines will be deleted without warning.

15. PLEASE be an active member of this forum community and alert us to any posts you deem inappropriate and send us an e-mail at: alert@fishontario.com.

ENFORCEMENT OF RULES:

If members are caught violating any of the Forum rules, or there are any complaints of disruptive behaviour by members, the following action will be taken:

1. First offence will result in a warning.

2. Second offence will result in a permanent ban. If you haven't learned your lesson by now, you never will.

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