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Please read the following rules and guidelines very carefully. By proceeding to post you agree to these guidelines and must obey them at all times. Refusal to obey these guidelines will result in the appropriate responsive actions. 

Our ECF Community Forums

We have implemented the following guide for using our community forums. This guide is designed to strike a balance between the main goal of our forums, providing support, and keeping the relaxed and welcoming atmosphere of the user community.

We require all posts to be polite, constructive, and on topic.

All material posted or uploaded to the forum remains the property of the original poster and ECF is the licensed distributor of such content. The administrators of this site reserve the right without notice to access or view all such material to edit the subject of a post, or to move, reclassify, or delete any post or other material that is deemed inappropriate or disruptive, fails to conform to these forum rules, or to ensure proper indexing and searchability. Please note that, from time to time, topics may be removed for being inappropriate even though your individual post in that topic may have been perfectly fine. Please do not feel this reflects badly on you.

Having fun is good. We like fun. Please keep it positive and polite. We may take action against posts and/or topics that could cause unrest in the community beyond a civil and polite disagreement.

You may not make personal attacks on other users or staff members either in public forums or private messages.

You may not use profanity. It is unprofessional and offensive and will not be tolerated. We have word filters in place for the most vulgar terms. Circumventing those word filters will result in punitive action.

You may not advertise or promote other companies or their products in a commercial sense.  

We reserve the right to ban any member who violates our guidelines or disrupts our community. We will be fair and provide warning in most cases.

If you have an issue concerning our services, policies, or staff, please use a personal contact method such as a private message or email to a staff member. We take serious complaints to heart and will do our best to address them.

The Golden Rules 

1. There will be no profanity or foul language. Any un-called for language will be removed and you will receive a final warning.
2. There will be no racial, ethnic, gender based insults or any other personal discriminations.
3. There will be no posts meant to offend or hurt any other member, in a manner which is offensive or inflammatory.
4. Spamming is not permitted; please keep all your posts as constructive as possible.
5. Pornography, warez, or any other illegal transactions may NOT be linked in any shape or form.
6. Users may not argue a moderators decision publicly. Any and all complaints directed at a moderator must first address the moderator in question via PM. If the problem can not be resolved, then the moderator and user must send their positions to the forum admin. The forum admin will make or change any and/or all final decisions.
7. Pictures may be posted as long as they are not explicit or offensive. If you plan to post more than one image, or the topic is based on graphics, please link the images rather than screening.
8. Advertising, commercial-related or competing products are all forbidden in any relation to your account except by explicit permission
9. Remember to post in the correct forum. Take your time to look at other topics and see where your topic should go. If your topic is placed in the wrong forum, it will be moved by a moderator.
10. If a topic is recognized as being posted in the wrong forum, or if the post is a violation of our guidelines then please contact a moderator. 
11. Any impersonation of a user within these forums, in any mode of communication, is strictly prohibited and will result in a banning.
12. If you are linking to external content, you should link directly to that content. It is unacceptable to use link-thru systems to mask the originating URL, and cases where this is found to be happening may be edited or removed as appropriate.
13. The forum is the not the place to ask specific questions to staff members, complain about ECF work, copy and paste text from staff emails or address concerns that fall outside the scope of general discussion on bicycle policy. If you have an issue concerning staff work, services etc. please phone or send an email to a staff member. 

Violation of any of these rules will result in consequences will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

Thank you for being part of the ECF Forum and we hope that you have some fruitful discussions.