Rules and Guidelines for using this forum
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:46 am
Looking back, I was embarrassed to discover that the old forum's 'Rules' thread: Not so much Rules as Guidelines .... had only ever received a mere 2500 views. My own fault entirely. It was something I started quickly cobbling together, on the day the forum opened, and never finished writing up. Nor did I think to make it a 'sticky' topic at the time, so it ended up languishing, mostly ignored, at the bottom of page 3 of the General Discussion section.
If you've joined any of the larger mainstream watch forums, such as SCWF (a.k.a. 'TheWatchSite') or WatchUseek, then you may remember having ticked a checkbox stating that you agree to abide by their rules. I'll wager that most people don't ever bother to read them. In the case of WatchUseek, you'd be well advised to, because it's easy to find yourself banned for slightest minor infraction. SCWF Admin seem preoccupied with enforcing the rules for advertising on their Trading Post and have reiterated them several times. Both those forums rules sections run to literally reams of pages. So I'm going to try and keep ours short and simple.
One thread on the old forum I did finish writing up properly (and later added updates to) was Scope of Forum Topics.
In re-starting afresh with a new forum, the last thing I want to do is discourage members from making contributions.
That said, as before, I intend to keep the subject matters discussed here on topic. So what I wrote above, 9 years ago generally holds good. The primary purpose of this forum was and still is discussion of Seiko-based quartz chronographs. Some readers and past members will recall, we'd since added a further section catering for early Seiko quartz watches. That has been carried over to the new forum (at least for the time being).
So that's scope covered. As I said before, I'll try to keep the rules as such to a basic minimum. Please read on ....
If you've joined any of the larger mainstream watch forums, such as SCWF (a.k.a. 'TheWatchSite') or WatchUseek, then you may remember having ticked a checkbox stating that you agree to abide by their rules. I'll wager that most people don't ever bother to read them. In the case of WatchUseek, you'd be well advised to, because it's easy to find yourself banned for slightest minor infraction. SCWF Admin seem preoccupied with enforcing the rules for advertising on their Trading Post and have reiterated them several times. Both those forums rules sections run to literally reams of pages. So I'm going to try and keep ours short and simple.
One thread on the old forum I did finish writing up properly (and later added updates to) was Scope of Forum Topics.
In re-starting afresh with a new forum, the last thing I want to do is discourage members from making contributions.
That said, as before, I intend to keep the subject matters discussed here on topic. So what I wrote above, 9 years ago generally holds good. The primary purpose of this forum was and still is discussion of Seiko-based quartz chronographs. Some readers and past members will recall, we'd since added a further section catering for early Seiko quartz watches. That has been carried over to the new forum (at least for the time being).
So that's scope covered. As I said before, I'll try to keep the rules as such to a basic minimum. Please read on ....