Man,
I remember when 95% of the guys here in the audio forum were here to help their brothers out. I remember when guys would give up hours upon hours to help out someone they never met. I remember when guys here stood up for what was right. I remember when guys rallied around Vets and gave back to them. I remember when I could jump on this forum and read about 100 different speaker/amp combinations until I was blue and didn't understand one bit of it.
I remember it like it was yesterday, oh that's right, it was and still should be.

Thank you all for making this forum what it IS!!
Gann, Alex, Sly, T, AAWV, and the rest I'm forgetting while sitting in traffic.
Keep doing what your doing, we appreciate it and NEED it.

Pete

 

WORD

 

YES...best forum on the net....

 

I wrote on a thread that apparently is not up anymore. Dont know why but, anyway, how to we go about getting the "ruling" changed? Are there rules that need to be expanded to allow reviews to happen? IF so, who do we need to contact and what is the process to get this done?

 

Agree 100%. Post the reviews in the Vendor Classifieds if you have to. I will gladly jump there and read the so called "sales pitch" and then come back here to discuss details with my online brothers.

 

Can a vendor create a review thread in the Vendor Classifieds that we can all subscribe to and then we will know when there is new stuff to come here and talk about?

 

Yes, that's what that area is for.

 

No it's not.


I'm encouraged to post technical threads in the tech section. I am not permitted to start and advertisement thread here, which it was not.


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Other than following all the HDF Rules listed in several places on the forum as well as at the top of the Main Forum Page here is an Ammended Rule just for Vendors on HDF:

Recently, there have been some questions as to what vendors can and cannot do as far as posting on the forum. We have always had rules, but these are the official written rules. We encourage vendors to visit the entire forum, commenting on off topic posts or giving a member some tech advice, but we do have some guidelines. These are subject to change without notice and special cases will be reviewed upon the administrator’s discretion.
Vendor Guidelines:
Signature rules:
Vendors ARE permitted and encouraged to have a signature picture and link to their business and/or include specials they may be running currently. We just ask that your signature fit within the rules of (INSERT FORUM SIG RULES HERE).
Posting rules:
Vendors ARE PERMITTED to post in any existing thread in any section on the forum. Whether the thread/section relates to your product or not, you are encouraged to post, you may only post solicitations in relevant threads however (i.e. where someone is asking about brake pads, you can discuss the brake pads you carry). You can comment about a big sporting event last night in Off Topic or answer a question relating to your product in technical sections… contribute to other pre-existing threads on the site.
Vendors ARE NOT PERMITTED to START advertising threads in any section not intended explicitly for advertising. The forum provides a vendor posting section in which you may start new threads about your products and you can use posts in existing threads and your signature to link to your threads in the vendor section.
Vendors ARE PERMITTED to start new threads in technical sections, but they MUST be technical oriented in nature and not direct solicitations.
An example of a few titles that are acceptable threads in tech sections:
a. How to install new brake pads.
b. How to change your oil
c. How to install new exhaust

An example of a few titles that are not acceptable threads in tech sections:
a. Hawk brake pads now on sale at stuffforsale.com
b. Come check out our sale prices on oil
c. New exhaust systems in stock!

I picked similar topics for those allowed and not allowed, to illustrate how you can take an advertising thread and make it into an allowable tech post. This way, your advertisements are helpful to members, do-it-yourself articles are generally very popular and they assist greatly in the promotion of your business. Such technical posts can include links to your site but no pricing. They have to provide some technical information to the members to belong in a technical section and they can link to any type of page to help your business but not allowing pricing prevents threads from turning into billboards. You can, however, post about your products and should someone ask about the price you can answer in a later post or PM the interested members.

 

I must be missing something here. Isn't the entire audio forum a tech based forum? Isn't the engines forum tech based?
If these are not tech based and specific for those components why is there even sub sections?
I can promise that if I I'm looking for clutch help tech reviews I'm not going to the tech section, I'm going to the clutch and transmission category.

What the heck am I missing?

 

Ok, just to move this forward and put an end to this discussion as it really doesn't belong on the open forum, I'm going to put your post back. Then I will ask IB what they think.