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Purpose:
We want this forum to be your portal to your on-line local BMW motorcycle experience. We're looking to provide an enjoyable forum for people to discuss all things related to BMW motorcycles and the BMW Motorcycle Club of Colorado. We want everyone to feel welcome and free to post their questions, comments, announcements of their latest events, how they fixed something, reviews of rallies, gadgets and bikes. Got a question? Post it! Someone knows the answer! Posting of motorcycle and ride photos is limited to (registered) club members at this time.
Rules:
While we encourage you to post, we also want everyone to adhere to some basic rules of behavior. While this forum is accessible by the public, it is the private property of the BMW Motorcycle Club of Colorado. Any post you make to our forum becomes property of our forum. While we encourage free speech, we reserve the right to edit, move, or delete posts and / or threads from our forum. We reserve the right to restrict access at our sole discretion, without notice. These rules have been reviewed and approved by the Board of Trustees of the BMW Motorcycle Club of Colorado, and may be changed by the board at our sole discretion, without notice.
Posts should have some level of BMW or motorcycling content. It may be small, but it should have some content that revolves around BMW motorcycles. We want to discourage discussion about religion, guns in tank bags, the value of emission controls and other items that make people start foaming at the mouth.
We do not have an off topic forum at this time. If you really want to talk about religion or politics, there are plenty of forums available to let you get it all out. The moderators may be able to direct you to one they're familiar with.
Please take a moment to collect your happy thoughts and provide a thoughtful response or polite retort. Our moderators don’t want to have to help you help us keep this place pleasant.
Profanity and / or obscenity are prohibited. This is a PG forum. If you wouldn't say it in front of your grandmother, please don't say it here. And if your grandmother can swear real well, pretend your kids are reading over your shoulder.
Personal attacks are not tolerated in any way, nor is baiting someone to encourage such attacks in the form of trolling. When the fight starts, everyone gets a seat in the Test forum pending edits or deletions.
Advertising is only allowed by members in the appropriate For Sale or Wanted ads forum. Supporting vendor ads are only allowed on our main web site, not in the forums.
Discriminatory comments regarding race, religion and the like are prohibited as are all forms of general slander and character defamation.
So, if you take a look here, the requirements for good citizenship are small. We're giving everyone plenty of lattitude to encourage talk about things that will interest the BMW riding population.
So, how does moderation work?
Your friendly neighborhood moderators will make every effort to work with the membership to come to an agreeable solution to what are, in keeping with the guidelines, problematic posts.
We'll try to send an email message, encouraging the poster to either edit or delete the post and why we feel they should. We'll do these items in private to preserve everyone's dignity.
If they don't want to play along, and we certainly hope they do, we can either lock the thread down, or delete the post. Locked threads will be moved to the Test forum (pending deletion) so folks can understand what is and isn't acceptable.
In short, nobody likes a tyrant. But everybody can live in a place where the rules are clear and applied fairly. We're striving to operate under that kind of framework.
Thanks for your consideration.
The BMW MCC Forum Team
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