The 25 Post rule

THE 25 POST RULE


We the forum Management are sorry to hear that there are still ppl out there who are coming to grief over our 25 post rule. Its not our intention to course anyone any grief by offering there's manuals amongst many other things here at the forum however, we need the rule in place & this is the reason why.

The manuals themselves are donated by a few members who happen to have them so they could be shared among the rest of the members who contribute so much to this forum.

When we started hosting the manuals we had no idea how popular they would become & before to long the forum got slammed with ppl downloading the manuals & not contributing to the forum in any way at all. This slowed the forum almost to a grinding halt at one point because we where being hit so hard with ppl just wanting the manuals & who suffered because of it? Not the ppl wanting a copy of the manuals but the ppl who made them available in the first place.

The forum Administration has put this 25 post rule in place to both prevent & protect the forum & its members from being restricted or even losing the use of the very forum they help build & so far we find it works well in that regard so we intend to leave it in place for the same reason.

The members here are all so willing to share & all work extremely hard to make this forum the knowledge base & extremely friendly community it is & all they ask of anyone in return is to contribute a little something to add to this ever expanding wealth of knowledge you will find here.

I would like everyone who reads this to please understand. We are "NOT" trying to make life hard for anyone, we are merely trying to proved the best forum we can for our members who contribute so much here. Because without them we wouldn't even be having this conversation.




*An extremely big thanks to all our members who contribute so much so that others can better benefit. You are the real stars here*




Forum Management.

If it is your intention to only post the minimum 25 posts to get access to the manuals please be aware that you are being watched, and the minimum standard we will allow is a decent introduction telling us a bit about yourself and your Patrol and the remaining posts as either replies or comments to other peoples posts.
Please do not post up useless questions if you have no intention of coming back to read the answers as this wastes other forum members time.

DO NOT spam the forum with rubbish
DO NOT cut and paste the same mindless comment into 25 different threads.
DO NOT be rude, derogertory or use profanities.

This is the minimum we expect. Failure to comply will result in ONE official warning via PM from admin/moderators (you may get several other PM's from other forum members), ignore that warning and you will be banned before you get 25 posts up.

We the admin and members have put a lot of work into this forum to make it what it is, and we are very proud of it. We hope that in the course of putting up 25 posts you realize we offer a lot more than just manuals, we can give you real world experience and knowledge that you won't find in any manual, and that you will want to stay around well past 25 posts to become part of our community. But if you try to drag down the standard of the forum with 25 posts of rubbish - LOOK OUT!

Tony