[azjoe]

SRP is provided as a community for you to learn and share information about straight razors, wet shaving, and related equipment and accessories. We provide a wealth of information in our forums, library, gallery, and other areas of our site.

We encourage you to share your thoughts and opinions openly and freely with other members within the context of our rules and traditions with the following caveat:

Freedom of speech, within the context of our site, does not necessarily mean you are permitted to say whatever you want whenever you want however you want, without consequence. Your participation in our forums require that you follow our rules and you must agree to do so when you register. You may view a complete copy of those rules [here].

Of specific importance is the following:

1. You agree that you will not use the Forum to: post or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; [i.e., you agree to conduct yourself in a civil fashion]
2. Straight Razor Place Forums may pre-screen Content, or refuse, revise or move any Content that is available via the Forum in its sole discretion. Straight Razor Place Forums shall have the right to remove any Content that violates the Terms or is otherwise objectionable, as determined in Straight Razor Place Forums's sole discretion. [i.e., Moderators and Admins have the right to take whatever action they deem necessary to maintain compliance with the rules, including editing your post, removing your post, and locking or removing your thread.]
3. Straight Razor Place Forums reserves the right to terminate your Straight Razor Place Forums account for the Forum immediately upon written notice to you (including email) for any breach of the Terms. [i.e., you can be banned or terminated from membership at the Moderator/Admin's discretion for violation of the rules.]

Although not specifically stated in the rules, the following conventions and traditions are to be followed here and you are expected to comply or face Moderator/Admin action:

1. It is expected that you will post your questions and remarks in the correct topical forum. [i.e., you post about straight razors in the razor forum, about soaps in the Soap forum, etc.] and that posts you make to a thread will remain on-topic.
2. An Off-Topic forum is provided for all other situations. While the OT forum is open to discuss anything you wish (within the limitations of our site rules, of course), we strongly urge that you refrain from starting threads on topics that traditionally become highly opinionated, such as politics, religion, sexual preferences, free speech, etc.
3. It is your responsibility to maintain the decorum of any thread you start. If members in your thread are uncooperative in that regard, report their posts to a moderator.
4. The moderators will extend little tolerance to rules violation, particularly in the areas of civility and respect.
5. You must comply with the requests and/or directives of the moderators. Failure to do so may result in the revocation of your forum privileges (i.e. you will be banned) for a duration of 24-hours or more, depending upon the frequency and severity of your infraction(s).
6. If you disagree with an action a moderator has taken specifically against you and/or one of your posts, contact the moderator off-line (i.e., via PM or email) and discuss the matter.

[ByronTodd]

Additional Clarification of SPAM.

According to rules agreed to when signing up for an account here you will not:

post or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation, or in any way identify or provide a link to any source of products or services related to shaving except in those areas that are designated for such purpose

This includes posting a new thread as a "review" of an item without any participation in this community. So one post wonders of a "great deal" found are not tolerated as they are viewed as SPAM.

Thank you for your understanding.