Rule #6

[bruceb58]

I would like an explanation of Rule #6. Seems to me it is so a poster does not promote his own business. Is that correct? If I mention a company by name like West Marine, Getaprop or even Amazon, is that against rule #6?



6. You may not post in the forum to promote any personal enterprise, advertise a business or product, or to solicit responses for contests, off-site poll questionnaires or similar. This includes directing members to social networking sites.
The First post of a thread MAY NOT be used to advertise or promote a product, company, internet site, sale, individual, or service. If you wish to promote a product or internet site, please contact iboats for rates/permission. Please remember that iboats is a retail vendor of marine products and do not post anything that would be detrimental to iboats' interests.

 

[GA_Boater]

If a link to a site is censored, meaning the URL is asterisked as in westmarine.com, it's on our competitor list. Any attempt to circumvent by using spaces, misspelling or other means will result in a Mod or Admin doing a manual censor. This is in Rule 7;

7. No post may contain usernames, avatars, signatures or text with any business name in competition with iboats.com, including website links. Business names may be automatically edited or manually edited by Administration or Moderators. Links to boating related educational material may be allowed

Rules 6, 7 and 8 are intertwined because the 3 address the issue of iboats is first a retail store, and second, the forum is provided by iboats. If iboats sells the product or will be selling the product, it would be against iboats interests to allow.