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Mission Statement

The mission of this Forum is not to promote organizations or businesses, any particular method of hunting or fishing, any weapon or equipment of choice, or any particular management strategy. Our mission is simply to give individual sportsmen a place to relax and have fun, and even vent on occasion within Forum rules, while discussing hunting and fishing and the great outdoors as it relates to them as individuals, not as organization members or business owners.

Forum Rules
Including Terms of Use Agreement

Registration and membership are FREE!

Who Can Become a Member
Anyone who is at least 13 years of age and has a valid email address.

Ownership
This is a privately owned Forum owned by Arkansas hunters and fishermen. As such, membership is granted as a privilege solely and exclusively at the discretion of the Forum. Any membership so granted may also be terminated without notice for any reason at the sole discretion of the Forums Owners and/or Administrators.

Choosing a Username and Required Profile Info
Keep it clean.
Business, club, or organizational usernames are not allowed.
To limit confusion you also may not be allowed to use a username someone else has already chosen even if spelled differently or is very similar sounding to one someone else has already chosen.
When registering you must enter in the public profile "location" box the name of the town, county, or region and state where you live.

Avatars
KEEP IT CLEAN and IN GOOD TASTE... borderline clean and borderline in good taste, as determined by the Forum, won't make the cut.
Only a still image or graphic can be used.
Avatars can't show, in full or in part, alcohol related products, sexual content or insinuations, nudity, or anything illegal.
Organization avatars and avatars of a business you or a relative or friend have personal ties to are not allowed. No one other than Forum Sponsors are allowed to use their Avatar for advertising purposes.
Organization and business logo's are not allowed.
The Forum reserves the right to delete any or all avatars without reason at anytime.
These rules are strictly enforced with zero tollerance.
Size limit is 125 pixels x 125 pixels and the file size limit is 7144 bytes (around 7KB). If you try to upload too large an avatar or file you'll get an error message. Anyone having trouble sizing their avatar or avatar file for upload can request help in this thread.

Posting
The posting rules are simple and clear.
Personal attacks against another member, including but not limited to name calling, personal snide and demeaming remarks, personal criticism of another member for his opinions, choice of management strategies, choice of legal weapon or legal method of hunting or fishing are not allowed.
Personal attacks against ex-members or other Arkansas hunting boards and/or their owners is not allowed.
Personal attacks against any employee or representative of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is not allowed. You can express your disgust if any and bash their decisions and/or the way they manage wildlife in general but personal attacks are a no no.
Flaming or baiting, racism, vulgarity, dirty jokes, sexually explicit material, illegal material or links to vulgar or illegal material, overly graphic, and posts in bad taste are also not allowed.
If you wouldn't say it or wouldn't want anyone else to say it in front of your mother, mother-in-law, wife, daughter, or daughter-in-law then don't say it on this Forum. If it crosses your mind that a post could even remotely meet one of the above criteria then it probably does so don't post it.
Keep off topic discussion to a minimum. Always start a new thread rather than completely hijacking a fellow members thread.
Discussing, questioning, or arguing on the open Forum about any action taken by Forum management in relation to a member is not allowed. Questioning the credibility of the Forum and/or trashing it or any of it's management decisions or team members on the open Forum is also not allowed. If you ever have a question about a management decision concerning a member or former member or have a beef with a management decision you can discuss it with us in PMs"
Members must have a minimum of 10 posts before allowed to post links.Trying to type around this rule is cause for banishment from the Forum
Do not post advertisements for upcoming club or organization events or event follow ups anywhere on the Forum other than in our Upcoming Events Forum.
Members may post links to other sites and Forums in the flow of related conversation and in compliance with all other posting guidelines. But they may not use this Forum or it's PM's to recruit members for other Forums nor advertise products or services of any kind. Also posting links to other web sites is allowed solely at the discretion of the Forum's management team and any link is subject to removal without cause or notice. Also see the Spamming and Advertising category below.
This Forum reserves the right to move, edit, or delete images, avatars, links, posts and/or threads for any reason without notice or explanation.
Administrators, Moderators, and Forum Leaders will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible although it may be impossible to review every post. So failure by the Forum to edit or delete an avitar, link, post or thread doesn't necessarily signify Forum endorsement of such avatar, link, post, or thread.


Spamming and Advertising
We have a zero tolerance for spamming and do not provide free advertising. Advertisements for entities a member has a stake in, including but not limited to commercial, club, or organizational advertisements (including but not limited to websites, phone numbers, names, membership recruitment, services, or products) are not allowed anywhere on the Forum unless approved by the Forum's Administration.

If you would like to become a sponsor of or advertiser on this site please contact an Administrator for details.
If you have a product, service, club, or organization and would like to exchange links and be added to our links page PM your link and a description of your product, service, club, or organization to a Forum Administrator for approval.

Moderators, Forum Leaders, and Administrators
Moderators, Forum Leaders, and Administrators are Forum members who donate their time and receive no monetary compensation. Like you, the opinions they express on the issues are their own. Also like you, they are to be treated civilly at all times whether you agree with their Moderating decisions and/or personal opinions or not.

The Bargain Barn
The Bargain Barn is not to be used for commercial listings. Any member may post items in the BB forum provided the member is not acting on behalf of ANY company, business, home business, or organization. Any member offering a firearm for sale must follow all Federal, State and Local laws that govern the state in which the sale is being made from and to. Any member buying a firearm posted for sale on this Forum must follow all Federal, State and Local laws that govern the state in which they intend to have the gun delivered. This Forum nor anyone representing this Forum has any part in nor is in any way responsible for the sale or use of any item/s found on this web site. Except for those items obtained directly from the Forum itself this Forum also has no part in the shipping of or the collection of the money for any item listed on the website as for sale, trade, or wanted.

Copyright Material
By posting your "Intellectual Property" on this Forum's web site you are giving the Forum unlimited, unrestricted, royalty free use of all such property regardless of your current or future membership status. Do not post copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or you have prior consent from the owner of such material.

Members and Guests Assumption of Liability
This Forum makes no claim as to the accuracy or completeness of any of the information located on this web site and all such information should be considered opinion and not fact. By utilizing this website all Forum members and guests assume sole responsibility and hold harmless this Forum and it's agents for their use of the information, products, and services they obtain through the use of this web site.
You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless this Forum, and it's agents with respect to any claim based upon transmission of your message's.
You agree to hold the Forum and its agents harmless from any claim arising out of your participation or duties in any function of this forum and agree you will not bring any type of action or suit against this web site, its' owner/s or any of its agents for any reason whatsoever.
You also agree to defend the Forum and its agents from any claim or suit arising from your use of this Forum.

Members Responsibilities
ALL MEMBERS must have a VALID EMAIL address on file with the Forum.
Any member who wishes to have their account removed from the Forum may do so by written request to an Administrator. The request must be sent via email or pm. Requests to remove accounts made in the general forum will be ignored and deleted.
You agree to follow all rules and guidelines as set forth in this terms of use agreement. Any person who becomes a registered member on or after 7-03-2006 must agree to the terms of this agreement and by so doing will be bound by all rules and guidelines as set forth within it. The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in the enforcement of all conditions of this document.
The Forum reserves the right to change this terms of use agreement without notification and it is the members responsibility to keep up to date with the terms in this Terms of Use Agreement. Any changes made to this document in whole or in part are considered retroactive and thus are instantly in force and are considered to have been in force since this documents execution on 7-03-2006.

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