The Fruita Co-op Bulletin Board - Rules

We've got a huge community, so in order to manage such a large group of diverse people we must enforce certain standards and rules. Underlying these rules is the fact that Fruita Co-op is a family-oriented business where people of different backgrounds and ideas can all feel comfortable.

Do's

• Be friendly and courteous to all members at all times.

• Respect the Fruita Coop Staff.

• Be nice to newcomers and help them feel welcome.

• Respect that people may have a different political, religious, philosophical and cultural background than you.

• Be very descriptive in the subjects of your new topics and try to stay on topic as you post. Example: do not say "HELP ME!", but instead say "I'm having a problem with xxx yyy and could use some help"

• Have fun and learn!

Dont's

1. Remember this is a family board no swearing / foul language and no inappropriate "Adult" topics.
2. No PETA, Dog Fighting or Cock fighting posts, period!
3. No Flaming (verbally attacking people or groups of people - e.g. a profession, an organization, a company.)
4. No Trolling (posting to provoke others, luring them to flame or rant). Trolling is sometimes done involuntarily, so please be considerate when posting.
5. No teasing, mocking, ridiculing, or otherwise making fun at other member's expense.
6. No Spam. Spamming is posting the same thing several times. "Bumping" (posting to move a thread up on the forum list) and cross-posting (posting the same thread in several forums) are examples of spam.
7. No Fighting. Taking a personal conflict to the forum is unacceptable. "I'm right, you're wrong" threads and posts will be edited or deleted.
8. Do not post overly personal information like your phone number, address, age (especially if you are a minor) or any other personal info you don't want the whole world to see.
9. Do not promote other similar websites that could be considered in competition to Fruita Co-op. Sometimes it may be appropriate to link to another site that has specific information relative to a question, but moderators have to right to remove links and posts at their discretion.
10. Luring members to other forums is not allowed and we prohibit discussing drama that happens on other forums. We will not tolerate people coming in and spamming our members via the public forum, private messages, or emails to join another community.
12. We strongly discourage religious and political topics and reserve the right to delete them at our discretion. 
13. Do not solicit donations or charitable requests for yourself or other people or organizations.

In general, you agree not to post any material that is illegal, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, harassing, threatening, invasive of another person's privacy, or a violation of copyright. You agree that the administrators and moderators of this site have the right to remove, edit, move or lock any material on the site, at any time for any reason. However, it is impossible for said administrators and moderators to review all material for objectionable content. Therefore you acknowledge that such material expresses the views and opinions of the author only, and the administrators and moderators will not be held liable.  You also agree that posting material (information, posts, topics, pictures, etc.) to our forum and website implicitly grants Fruita Co-Op a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-revocable license to use and change said material.

If you agree to the rules above, please continue with your registration.