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Registering and participating in the mancaveforums.com website constitutes an instant and all encompassing agreement to the following guidelines, which shall apply to any and all content you send or receive on this site. All member contributed content is granted to mancaveforums.com with perpetual electronic or otherwise, royalty free, non exclusive publishing rights with the license to use, modify and publish this content in any media and manner whatsoever. All postings and messages on this site are the exclusive thoughts and opinions of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the owners of mancaveforums.com or the advertisers. Mancaveforums.com assumes no responsibility for any content posted on this site. Mancaveforums.com does not make any claims, promises or guarantees concerning the accuracy, suitability, application or completeness of any information posted in the forums. Please understand all information provided here shall be viewed, consumed and or applied at your own risk.

*You agree that you are solely responsible for anything you post on the mancaveforums.com's website forums and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless mancaveforums.com, its owners and employees with respect to any claims based upon any of your submitted content.

*Since the discussions in this community are live and instant it is impossible to catch and or remove every instance of violations to these guidelines. We do utilize a "report post" feature on this board which will inform the moderating staff that something may be amiss in the forums. The staff will make every effort possible to quickly deal with these situations and we ask that you do not respond in the forums (aka don't feed the trolls) to those that have difficulty following these guidelines as that in itself would be a violation. Please note: there is a 90 minute window after submission to edit your post. After that you must contact a moderator and provide them with a reason for an edit. Think carefully before posting!

*All IP addresses are logged here at mancaveforums.com. "Spammers" and troublemakers are not tolerated here and we will not hesitate to contact your ISP and report your actions!

*There is only one screen name allowed per account. Attempts by the same person to post under multiple screen names or return after account deactivation is very easy to spot so please don't waste your time with this nonsense, we will catch it. The minimum age for posting on this site is 16 years old. If you are not 16 years old you may NOT register.

*Screen names may not be your email address, website, business or profession as this would be considered advertising, which is not allowed. Names will not be racist, vulgar, hateful, nasty or disgusting and the moderating staff will have the final say over what is not acceptable. If you are asked to submit a new screen name and refuse to do so your account will be deactivated.

*Cross posting the same message in multiple forums is not allowed and will result in the removal of all but one posting. Please find the forum that most closely matches your query and post your topic there with an appropriately detailed topic description.

*Stay on topic. Posts that wander from the original topic intent will be removed. It is extremely frustrating for people seeking information to discover a thread has gone completely south and is a major disservice to the original poster. Please start a new topic rather that interrupting an ongoing discussion.

*Free classified advertising is available and we ask that you carefully read and follow the instructions for utilizing this forum.

*Advertising and or soliciting business is NOT allowed in any shape or form on this site unless arranged through the proper channels. Do not post links or references to your for profit, non profit, fundraiser, personal blog, friend or associates site or business endeavors in the forums. These will be removed and warnings issued up to and including removal from this site. Do not push the envelope or try to be 'sneaky' about this. The moderating staff is highly skilled at spotting these attempts. Do not use the PM system to advertise or solicit members.

*English is the language of choice on this board and if need be please utilize translation software if you would like to participate in the discussion. All non-English postings will be removed.

*Flaming, hateful, racist and bashing posts are not permitted in the forums nor via PMs. It is impossible for everyone to agree on anything but we can address thoughts and opinions politely and respectfully. Do not "go after" your fellow members if you disagree with something that has been posted. Give your thoughtful response in a way that does not attack anyone personally. Do not make an issue of typos, misspellings or grammar. This is not English 101 and not everyone considers English to be their first language of choice. The moderating staff will make every effort to assist people in getting their point across in the forums if we spot someone having difficulty with communication.

*Please do not attempt to circumvent the curse word filtering software with symbols or abbreviations. The really foul words will be caught so if the filtering software censors a word in your post you will see a symbol to replace it. Those that seem to have real trouble with this run the risk of account deactivation. If the filter seems to be triggered by a word that should be acceptable please contact the moderating staff so we can correct the situation.

*Please do not post copyrighted material. Quite simply, anything not created by you personally or do not have permission to redistribute is probably copyrighted. There are few enough exceptions that mancaveforums.com feels comfortable in making this broad and sweeping generalization. To post text articles you may quote up to three sentences from the article along with the source link. To post any other type of media, photos, video etc post a LINK to the webpage where this information can be found (not a direct link to the photo or other media) so the owner of the website has the opportunity to present their full efforts to the viewers. Do not 'hotlink' directly to images etc on another server as this content can change even if the link does not. Please do not argue "fair use" and "public domain" with the moderating staff, we are well aware of what these terms mean but this site's guidelines are the determining factor anyway.

*Posts that discuss any illegal activity will be removed and your ISP very well may contacted and provided with a copy of the content. Do not post anything that has been illegally (no matter how minor you may consider it) obtained, this too will be removed and you may have your account deactivated.

*Please do not post any type of personal information in the forums and use caution when providing same via "private message". This includes but is not limited to your real name, home addresses, phone numbers and email addresses. No matter the circumstances these will be removed from your posts.

*Mancaveforums.com does not delete accounts. At some point members may wish to discontinue participating in the discussions here and we realize that. All submitted content is under the ownership of mancaveforums.com as agreed to earlier and will not be removed. Everyone's contributions make up a piece of this community and become the history and substance of mancaveforums.com. If you are certain you wish to leave for good we will accommodate your desire by changing your screen name to something that would be unidentifiable to the rest of the members but your posts and threads will remain. This action is irrevocable so please take some time to think about it.

*Do not create threads or posts discussing the administration or moderating actions of this website. Questions concerning moderator actions can be sent to the moderator that performed the action. If you are dissatisfied with the response you may then forward the situation to the site Administrator. Please note however the criticism of staff actions in the forums will not be tolerated under any circumstances. Please keep all communication with the staff polite and respectful as abusive behavior towards anyone on the site is grounds for account deactivation.

*The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads:

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.


This does not apply to a privately run discussion forum no matter how hard one may try to make it. Please save yourself a losing argument and realize that when you registered to post on this site you agreed to be bound by these guidelines, plain and simple.

*It is impossible to cover every single instance of something that could possibly arise or come about in these forums. Use these site guidelines, common sense and good old civility when participating in the discussions and everything should be just fine. If you are unsure about something prior to posting, contact a moderator for guidance and they will be happy to assist you. Mancaveforums.com reserves the right to modify, alter, add, remove and or enhance these site guidelines without notice and it is up to the membership to stay abreast of any changes to this document.

*Mancaveforums.com Administrators and their agents (moderators and other staff members) reserve the right to modify, edit remove, alter or otherwise change any post or thread submitted to this website.

*The mancaveforums.com Administrator reserves the right to view any "private message" (PM) that has been reported to violate the guidelines set forth here or is suspected of being "spam". It is understood by registering that "private message" means "not for general membership consumption" NOT a totally and truly "private" conversation between members of this website that cannot or will not ever be read by a third party.

*Mancaveforums.com reserves the right to modify or terminate our services at any time without any prior notice for any reason, without liability to you, any other member or third party.




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