Advertising (Private and Commercial Offers)
As of May 1st, 2004 ScubaBoard allows all entities, commercial and private to post advertisement type messages in the Scuba Board Market Place provided that the following conditions are met:
1) All members are expected to read any and all sticky or announcement threads related to additional rules or restrictions that may exist in a particular Market Place sub-forum.
2) Messages must be clean and professional. Please avoid using large font sizes or more than three colors. Please limit any embedded images to 300x300 pixels or smaller, files larger than this should be attached to your post.
3) Offers must be clearly explained with all conditions and restrictions outlined upfront. Any attempt to commit fraud, deceive or otherwise harm the members of this board will result in a ban and further reporting action if deemed necessary by the Administrators or Moderators.
4 )There is absolutely no “bumping” of threads. This includes making any reply to a thread whose purpose is deemed to be solely to force the thread to rise to the top of the thread list page in order to gain additional exposure to a thread.
In addition, ScubaBoard has set several special rules governing the conduct of messages in the Market Place forum:
1) The Market Place forum is not a place to criticize, comment on or in other way speak to the reliability or history of another user’s advertisement. Messages commenting on the quality or value of a deal negatively are expressly forbidden as are messages that “flame”, “troll” or otherwise negatively attack a company for their business practices.
2) Posting competing or counter offers to an advertisement in this forum is expressly forbidden.
3) All members are expected to read any and all sticky or announcement threads related to additional rules or restrictions that may exist in a particular Market Place sub-forum.
