Sponsor Guidelines (superseded)

NOTE: SEE MOST RECENT POST BELOW

Attention all sponsors: please review the User Agreement:

GIRS User Agreement | Greater Iowa Reef Society

Specifically the following section:

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GIRS SPONSORS

The forum does not discourage nor endorse any commercial entity. Sponsors must adhere to all the forum policies including these specifically set out for Sponsors. For information about how to become a Sponsors, please contact the Staff.

• Sponsors are assigned this status at our discretion. We value our Sponsors participants and the knowledge they bring to the forum. Only authorized Sponsors may post commercial content.
• Sponsors have a sub-forum specifically dedicated to their products and services.
• Sponsors may not post unsolicited Content that advertises services or contains price quotes outside of the Sponsors Forums.
• Outside of the Sponsors Forums, when a user is looking for help or asking questions (about products, techniques, etc), Sponsors may post in a manner to direct them to the Sponsors Forum or a thread that is related to their question, their own commercial website, a website in which they have a commercial interest, etc, as long as any content is limited to answering the question or solving the problem/issue.
• Similarly, Outside of the Sponsors Forums, if (and only if) a user requests (solicits) a Sponsors to provide information or pricing on a product or service, you may respond as stated above.
• Sponsors are not allowed to post replies to a "Buy" listing in the Classifieds indicating that they have the item being sought; such communication should take place via private message.

We welcome the knowledge and experience that our Sponsors bring to the table and we do not wish you restrict your ability to share information with our users and participate in discussion. However, this should not be taken advantage of and does not imply permission to threadjack or post blatant advertising; please do not abuse this policy.

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There have been many instances of Sponsors posting in BST threads. This is not allowed but it has not been noticed/enforced. Please abide by these guidelines.