1) No profanity or name calling. Keep is professional and neutral. I don't care if you think the poster is a scum-sucking, ripoff artist. You're not here to call names. Neither are you to engage in uncivility or ill-manners. If you're not comfortable saying it in real life because you know someone would be perfectly justified in punching your lights out, don't say it in the forums. That's just rude. In other words, we reserve the right be arbiters of taste and manners - try not to offend. Unless it's really funny.

2) No personal information. This means the personal information of other users. If you're silly enough to post your own personal information on an the internet, you deserve all the problems that will cause. The only exception to this rule is in the "Scammer and Fraud Alerts" category. (If you must post personal information in that category, it must be restricted to info that clearly identifies the perpetrator - such as an email address or the like.)

3) No spamming or illegal activity. Don't post identical or extremely similar posts. No advertising other websites. You may point out an auction for an item of interest, or as a response to a request on the Wish List. If you engage in illegal activity that in our view, jeopardizes GunAuction.com' reputation or viability, we'll disable your account. We reserve the right to make that call. Be aware that this is a public forum.

4) The original Thread Author is also the Thread Admin. If you start a thread, you manage it. That means making sure that posters behave themselves, and follow our rules. Thread Admins that don't do their job in policing their thread will have that thread closed. If you have a problem with someone, bring it up to the Thread Admin IN THAT THREAD. Do not attempt to contact GunAuction.com management, as we will make fun of your email and promptly forget about you.

5) Threads without any active posts for more than a year will be archived off the Forum. If you want to keep a thread active, people must continue to use it. No sense in keeping stuff around that isn't being used.

6) Be prepared to see your feedback next to your post. We think it's a good idea for folks to see how much feedback you've got, when you voice your opinion. We tend to lend more weight to folks with better feedback, than with someone who has a lot of Negatives. The feedback that gets posted is whatever feedback you have at the time of it's posting, and it's NOT updated as your feedback changes. NO, we don't update your feedback in your posts - there's just too much overhead in trying to maintain that.