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SatelliteGuys.US
Forum Rules SatelliteGuys.US is America's Premiere Satellite News, Talk and Information Site. In addition SatelliteGuys is known for reporting rumors from within the industry. All such rumors are labeled as such. SatelliteGuys.US is a place where everyone are friends (friends that you have not met yet!) We welcome everyone no mater their knowledge of the industry, we especially welcome "newbies" and work to treat them well as we were all "newbies" at one time or another. We want all SatelliteGuys Members to feel like they are part of the SatelliteGuys family. SatelliteGuys.US is designed to be a family friendly site. This means that
our If there are questions you have about the world of Satellite Television then SatelliteGuys is where you will find the answers you seek. We have many experts in the field here willing to help you out. About the only thing we won't help you out with is Satellite The SatelliteGuys.US forums are for discussion of various topics related to the world of satellite and home theater technology.. TheList is SatelliteGuys very own Satellite List. With
TheList you can see Running a site like SatelliteGuys.US costs a lot each
month for hardware and II. Forum Rules A. Forum Leadership The SatelliteGuys Staff are easily identified by their "Proud Staff Member" icon. All of these folks are unpaid volunteers and are here to help out to make sure that every visit to SatelliteGuys is a fun informative one. If you ever have any issues feel free to contact any of our staff members for help. You will notice that unlike other sites our staff is all labeled the same
and are not labeled as Moderators, Super Moderators or Administrators. This
is done because to you – our members B. Unacceptable Forum Behavior 1. Flaming Flaming is considered the angry or abusive behavior toward
another forum member. This takes the form of calling another member insulting
or offensive names, but can also take the form of other insults or derogatory
statements, including derogatory statements about race, religion, gender,
sexual identity or other characteristics. If a Staff Members feels that a member’s
behavior is a detriment to these forums, they reserve the right to act
accordingly. These forums exist as a community of hobbyists helping
hobbyists. 2. Spamming/Commercial sellers As SatelliteGuys.US is a commercial enterprise, commercial
advertisers are allowed only with the approval of the SatelliteGuys.US
forum staff. If you would like to request permission to advertise on these
forums, please contact one of our friendly staff members who would be
happy to help you out!. We have implemented Google Ads and Syndicated ads
from a number of third party sponsors for unregistered members for this purpose.
Acting as an agent for another website selling products and advertising their
website or products on the forums is not permitted. Spam is defined as unwanted, unsolicited commercial emails. While great lengths have been taken by the SatelliteGuys.US Staff to prevent spam from appearing on the forums, it still happens. Members can help deal with spam by reporting the spam post. This will alert our staff so that they can take action. 3. Harassment of other members Acts committed on the SatelliteGuys.US
forums that are found to be harassing other members or staff to invoke a
reaction, achieve monetary gain or simply annoy members 4. Political / Religious Discussion SatelliteGuys.US does not permit any discussion that could be controversial such as politics and religion. While we understand there is a sometimes a need to discuss these things we also know they lead a heated debates which then turns into name-calling. This site is not the place for these type of discussion as we aim to keep our site technology focused and family friendly. 5. Illegal activities SatelliteGuys.US will not tolerate any use of the forums to facilitate any
illegal activities. Links to websites that share illegal software, music,
movies, sites that promote satellite SatelliteGuys.US 6. Reporting posts Reporting a post through the use of the
As a service to the members of this forum, user galleries
have been implemented. Use of these galleries is only for you to show off
your setups and equipment. these galleries are not meant for family photos or
photos for a 8. Adult material (language & pornography) Pornography and other adult-oriented material (including
hate speech, violent behavior and other questionable material) are not
permitted in the general forum. Comments directed towards other members are
also not tolerated. There is no warning for this offence. Please use your
best 9. Group Buys Group buys are not permitted on the SatelliteGuys.US
forums. If there is a product that you feel other users would benefit from,
please feel free to contact one of our staff. We are always looking for new
and exciting products to bring to our community. 10. Links to Other Sites
Links in signatures are permitted as long as the guidelines showed above are followed. SatelliteGuys staff can and will remove links as necessary and users in violation will receive a warning. Because the forms that these schemes present themselves in
are constantly changing, staff
Any behavior that is deemed as disruptive to the forums, will be dealt with at the staff’s discretion. In short, if you're about to post something just to get under the skin of
a fellow forum member C. Special-Purpose Forums The SatelliteGuys Bar & Grill is a special private forum where SatelliteGuys Supporters can let their hair down and discuss a wide variety of topics, both satellite and non satellite related. SatelliteGuys.US is an expensive site to operate, we run SatelliteGuys.US has sponsors and in addition uses advertising from Google
Adsense plus other 3rd party ad agencies to help pay the bills, however these
sponsorships do not pay for all our expenses to keep the lights on, so we
take donations from our members to help keep the site online. For less then
$20 a year our members can help support the site and become a "Pub
Member" as a Pub Member you get access to the Pub Members Par &
Grill Forum, are To learn more about or to become a SatelliteGuys Pub Member please CLICK HERE and thanks in advance for helping us keep the lights on here at SatelliteGuys! The Classified area is allows supporting Pub Members to
sell and trade goods. This classifieds section is mainly for selling of
electronics type items such as satellite and home theater equipment.
Commercial use by dealers to sell goods is not permitted. Do to some issues
in the past we can not permit members to sell computer software. Classifieds
ads may only be posted by Supporting SatelliteGuys Pub Members as our thank
you for helping us keep the lights on here at SatelliteGuys.US. For
information about becoming a SatelliteGuys Pub Member please CLICK HERE. If you have any issues, please report them to any staff
member. The Uplink Center is a special forum on SatelliteGuys.US where you can get some insight of what may be coming soon to Dish Network and Bell ExpressVu. The Uplink Center is run by SatelliteGuys staff who have special software and hardware which can monitor the channel data tables from these satellite providers and report any changes made to these data-streams. It should be noted that any changes reported are just a look at what’s in the
tables and do not The Uplink Center is meant to be a fun This is a special private forum exclusively for Supporting Pub Members, where SatelliteGuys.US members can discuss adult topics with other adults. After a member becomes a Pub Member this forum is still disabled for them by default. A member must input the special access password to turn on this forum for viewing and posting. This forum is not for posting copyrighted photos from their sites or for
posting stuff which may be illegal or contain scenes which may be gross such
as dead or dismembered bodies. While The Back Room is for adults to play it
is not a free for all. Staff may at anytime remove access to this special
forum to any member at their
D. Punishment for rules violations 1. Warnings If you receive a warning, it is just that, a warning. The
points system does not apply. If you are on the receiving end of a warning,
perhaps you should take a step back and consider your actions. 2. Infractions If you receive an infraction, it is most likely due to the fact that a moderator or an administrator views your actions as breaking the rules of this forum. Members may also report posts to administrators and moderators to help police the forums when they feel that another member is out of line. This is a community that thrives on being helpful and willing. If you receive an infraction, please take a moment to consider your actions and ask yourself if they are contributing to the overall purpose of these forums.
Infractions are all assigned a point value, and will all
last for
This procedure is in place to help keep the forums a fair and just place. E. General Forum Etiquette 1. Search tools Forum search is used to locate information on the forums themselves. The Search function in the navigation bar across the top also gives you quick access to search the forums. There is an option to search thread titles or posts. Below those options, you can opt to use Google to search these forums. This search service is provided as a means for another
search method. Due to the nature of the built in vBulletin search, sometimes
it can be difficult to find exactly what you are looking for. Also, due to
the sheer Google (and other WWW search engines) yield lots of information about topics that are not covered on the forums. Many times they can yield more information than is available on the forums alone. Searching for information is helpful because much of the information that members (particularly new members) seek is already present on the forums, either in the FAQ sections, the Wiki, or in forum posts. It is recommended that members seeking specific information search the forums before posting a question. Most of the time, the answers can be found without having to create a new thread or post. This helps future new members by not creating lots of threads about the same topic, making information easier for members to locate.
Private messages, or PMs, are, as the name implies,
private communications between two forum members, similar to email. PMs are
excellent for negotiating classified transactions or asking questions that,
for whatever reason, you don't want visible to all forum members. Be aware however that Private Messages
should not be considered private (and this goes for any forum site not just
SatelliteGuys) staff with certain access to the server can see all private
messages. Do not use PMs to SPAM or bug other members. Certain
members of the SatelliteGuys staff have the ability to read PMs when there is
an issue.
3. Personal information Personal information such as addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and such should be kept off the forums. This is for members' protection and privacy. While the general forum membership would likely not use any such information maliciously, anyone with Internet access could easily read the content of these forums, take the information and do who-knows-what with it. The SatelliteGuys.US staff is not responsible for anything resulting from the information you post on the forums and will remove information upon request.
This hobby grows because members help other members. Please respect the new members, even when questions are obvious. Not everyone knows the things you do. REMEMBER WE WERE ALL NEWBIES ONCE! Also, remember that not everyone that offers assistance knows what they are doing, so it is possible to receive incorrect information. Again, the SatelliteGuys staff is not responsible for anything that happens as a result of acting on information you receive on these forums. Please use your better
SatelliteGuys.US are allowed to express themselves by using graphics known as Avatars. These Avatars can be most any graphic in any size of up to 100 x 100 pixels in size. If you are a supporting Pub Member your Avatar can even be animated! (CLICK HERE for details of becoming a Pub Member) While we give you a lot of freedom of what you can have for an Avatar
there are some that you can't have, and those are (but not limited to) Any
type of political avatar, any type of avatar which could be considered a
commercial advertisement, any avatar which would be considered inappropriate
for the work, school or church 6. Signatures. Users are permitted to
have their own vanity signatures, however we have a few rules on these
signatures, first and foremost standard registered members are not allowed to
have links to any other site in their signature. Supporting Pub Members may have links but only to their own non
commercial websites. All signatures
should be less then 5 lines. Due to
security issues we do not permit any images or html in members signatures,
the only two permitted images permitted are Folding @HOME stats and XBOX Live
Gamer Cards. Folding @HOME stats can
be added by using the following code [fah]username[/fah] and XBOX Live gamer
cards can be used by using the following code [xbl]username[/xbl]. The SatelliteGuys staff reserves the
right to edit or remove any signature they feel is inappropriate for any
reason. Members not wanting to see
other members signatures can turn off the signatures feature in their user
control panel. F. Other forum features Take a break from the Satellite World and play in our Fun Arcade, where we have thousands of games to waste away the day. The best part of our arcade is no quarters are required! SatelliteGuys gives you your own place in cyberspace by letting you keep your own blog. Our Blogging software makes it easy for you to share your thoughts with the world! Did you buy something that you want to tell the world
about then do it in our member review section! Your review can help other
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to report spam, flaming, illegal activities, scammers using the Classified
forum to find victims, and other violations of the SatelliteGuys.US forums
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