The TheEasyGarden Forum is a place for members to ask questions, share their
experiences, and help each other learn while making new friends.
We've got a huge community, so in order to manage such a large group of diverse
people we must enforce certain standards and rules. Underlying these rules is
the fact that TheEasyGarden is a family-oriented board where
people of different backgrounds and ideas can all feel comfortable.
Do's
* Be friendly and courteous to all members at all times.
* Respect the TheEasyGarden Staff. They dedicate LOTS of
volunteer time keeping the forum running smoothly.
* Be nice to newcomers and help them feel welcome.
* Respect that people may have a different political, religious, philosophical
and cultural background than you.
* Be very descriptive in the subjects of your new topics and try to stay on
topic as you post. Example: do not say "HELP ME!", but instead say
"I'm having a problem with xxx yyy and could use some help"
* Link back to TheEasyGarden.com from your site and/or blog, especially if
you put a link to another site in your forum signature (see rules on poultry
sites below)
* Read the sticky topics at the top of the "Feedback and Announcements"
section of the forum.
* Have fun and learn!
Dont's
This is a list of things you should not do on our board. TheEasyGarden
Staff will lock or remove topics if there are posts that are contrary to the
good of the community. The TheEasyGarden staff have over 50 years of
combined experience with this community and these rules are based on this experience.
The staff love the community, but if a member contnues to disregard our guidelines
they will be banned from accessing the TheEasyGarden forum.
1. Remember this is a family board no swearing / foul language and no inappropriate
"Adult" topics.
2. No PETA or Cock fighting posts, period!
3. No Flaming (verbally attacking people or groups of people - e.g. a profession,
an organization, a company.)
4. No Trolling (posting to provoke others, luring them to flame or rant). Trolling
is sometimes done involuntarily, so please be considerate when posting.
5. No teasing, mocking, ridiculing, or otherwise making fun at other member's
expense.
6. No Spam. Spamming is posting the same thing several times. "Bumping"
(posting to move a thread up on the forum list) and cross-posting (posting the
same thread in several forums) are examples of spam.
7. No Fighting. Taking a personal conflict to the forum is unacceptable. "I'm
right, you're wrong" threads and posts will be edited or deleted.
8. Do not post overly personal information like your phone number, address,
age (especially if you are a minor) or any other personal info you don't want
the whole world to see.
9. Do not promote other similar websites that could be considered in competition
to TheEasyGarden. Sometimes it may be appropriate to link to another site
that has specific information relative to a question, but moderators have to
right to remove links and posts at their discretion.
10. Luring members to other forums is not allowed and we prohibit discussing
drama that happens on other forums. We've worked hard for 10 years to build
up this community and we will not tolerate people coming in and spamming our
members via the public forum, private messages, or emails to join another community.
11. No advertising or marketing of your products or services outside of the
TheEasyGarden Buy / Sell section. Even posts in these areas should be in
moderation.
12. We strongly discourage religious and political topics and reserve the right
to delete them at our discretion. The topics of religion and politics
should be confined to the “Random Ramblings” section of the forum.
13. Do not solicit donations or charitable requests for yourself or other people
or organizations.
Moderation
TheEasyGarden staff spend a TON of time and energy to keep the forum running
smoothly. How TheEasyGarden staff moderate is never a topic for open
discussion on the forum. If you have any questions or feedback on moderation
it should be addressed to the Administrator or the specific moderator via email
or private message.
* Do not post threads questioning moderation.
* If a topic is closed or removed do not, under any circumstances, re-post the
same topic or material. If you have any questions as to why a thread was closed
or removed please contact a TheEasyGarden staff member.
General Items:
* You'll automatically be registered for the TheEasyGarden newsletter.
If you want to be removed from the newsletter simply follow the very easy unsubscribe
instructions on the first one you receive.
* Private messages via our forum can not be accessed by other members or the
moderators. The administrator may review private messages if problems arise
(for example, if members are reported as spamming via PM's)
* It is at our sole discretion to pre-screen, refuse or remove any users or
content from the site.
* Posting on TheEasyGarden makes the comment, images, ideas "public
domain". If you decide to leave the forum TheEasyGarden will not be
required to remove your posts.
* The opinions expressed on the forum are those of the authors and do not necessarily
reflect the positions of the TheEasyGarden website and/or its staff.
* You have read, understood, and agree with our privacy
policy
* To participate in the Buy, Sell, Auction portion of TheEasyGarden you must
agree to all the rules stated in that section.
In general, you agree not to post any material that is illegal, libelous, defamatory,
obscene, pornographic, harassing, threatening, invasive of another person's
privacy, or a violation of copyright. You agree that the administrators and
moderators of this site have the right to remove, edit, move or lock any material
on the site, at any time for any reason. However, it is impossible for said
administrators and moderators to review all material for objectionable content.
Therefore you acknowledge that such material expresses the views and opinions
of the author only, and the administrators and moderators will not be held liable.
You also agree that posting material (information, posts, topics, pictures,
etc.) to our forum and website implicitly grants TheEasyGarden a non-exclusive,
worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-revocable license to use and change
said material for the purposes of running TheEasyGarden.
If you agree to the rules above, please continue with your registration.
Welcome to TheEasyGarden and please enjoy your time here!
