Formerly The Outspoken Sportsman

Bureaucratic B.S. Forum Rules:

The Outspoken Sportman.net welcomes your participation in our Bureaucratic B.S. Forum. This forum offers you the chance to discuss the issues that effect the sportsman & outdoor enthusiasts' within the great State of Michigan. The forum also allows Bill's listeners to interact and discuss the issues that are being discussed during the radio show broadcast. We welcome your participation and encourage you to join us.

We welcome your comments and input on this forum. However in order to keep this forum interesting, productive & enjoyable for all of our users, we ask simply that you follow these minimal rules. By participating in the Bureaucratic B.S. Forum, you are consenting to these rules. Violators may be suspended from posting, or barred from the forum at the sole discretion of the TheOutSpokenSportsman.net moderator or webmaster.

The rules are as follows:

1. Exercise common sense and be considerate toward your fellow users. Commonly known as flaming, personal attacks are posts which are designed to personally berate or insult another. Text of this nature is not beneficial to the community spirit and will not be tolerated. Diversity of opinion and intelligent civil discourse is encouraged; by the same token, insults and "flaming" are not tolerated. While debating and discussion is welcome, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks on other forum members or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters. Disagreeing with an idea of another community member is different from attacking that individual. Occasionally, there will be conflicts that arise when people voice opinions. Be courteous when disagreeing with others. It is possible to disagree without being insulting.

2. Do not post off-topic. Please keep your comments consistent with the subject and purpose of the conversation thread. Deliberate disruption -- such as consistent off-topic and/or frivolous commentary -- will not be tolerated such posts may be deleted.

TheOutspokenSportsman.net and its moderators reserve the right to delete posts and/or whole conversations we determine are of an irrelevant, abusive or disruptive nature.

3. Although we love the extra information and sources you bring to the forum due to copyright and space issues, please do not quote news articles from other sources that are too lengthy. And please don't post news articles without giving credit to their respective authors; small excerpts and/or a link keeps things legal. Please provide a link with all excerpts when possible. (Note: Links should be posted in bold font.)

Also, to keep the discussion and dialogue moving, please keep posts to a reasonable length. If you have a lot of information to share, please feel free to contact us about a "listener's perspective" piece.  You may contact the webmaster at: sportsman-webmaster@hotmail.com   We  appreciate submissions from our website visitors & listeners.  You may also call into the show to discuss your topic on the air with Bill Moore.  Call in numbers are 1-906-789-9066 or 1-866-299-9066.

4. Trolling is prohibited! Trolling is the word used to describe a post that is deliberately designed for the purpose of angering and insulting the members of the forum community. Posts of this nature are disruptive and do not convey a friendly attitude.

5. Ranting is prohibited. A rant is a post which is long-winded, redundant and filled with angry, non-constructive comments.  A free exchange of ideas is essential in a forum, however it should be constructive.   Please post your thoughts in a concise, clear manner and avoid going off on rambling tangents.

6. You alone are responsible for the material you post. You will not knowingly post content or links to content that violates the copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right of any third party and that you will remove the same should you discover that you have violated this provision. Likewise, you may not post content or links to content that is libelous, defamatory, offensive, obscene, racist, abusive, that violates a third party's right to privacy, that otherwise violates any applicable local, state, national or international law, or that is otherwise inappropriate. You will indemnify TheOutspokenSportsman.net, Bill Moore's Outspoken Sportman Radio Show., its employees, agents, and affiliates from any and all claims and/or damages (including but not limited to reasonable attorneys' fees) resulting from any claim brought by any third party relating to content you have posted.

We shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content of the forums to determine compliance with the rules established by us. We shall have the right in our sole discretion to refuse to post, remove any material submitted to or posted on this forum. Without limiting the foregoing, we shall have the right to remove any material that we, in our sole discretion, find to be in violation of this agreement or inappropriate for any reason whatever without consent.

Notwithstanding all of the foregoing, users remain solely responsible for the content of their messages.

We further reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to remove a user's privilege to post content in our discussion forum. Suspended members who re-register with new accounts will have those accounts deactivated without notice. Repeated attempts will result in our contacting your ISP with a complaint.

7. You acknowledge and agree that you use and/or rely on any information obtained through the discussion forums at your own risk. TheOutspokenSportsman.net is not in any manner endorsing the content of the discussion groups and cannot and will not vouch for its reliability.

Each user specifically acknowledges that we are not liable for the defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of third parties, subscribers, members or other users of the forum and that the risk of injury from the foregoing rests entirely with each user.

We DO NOT intend to censor messages based on the opinions expressed within posts, but we will enforce the policies outlined here within the "Forum Rules". We reserve the right to remove posts at our discretion and without notice or explanation. Access to the forum is a privilege and not a right.

8. Please do not post your questions or suggestions for the show or website on the forum. * If you have questions or suggestions pertaining to the radio show itself click on "Advertising/Show Info." in the menu list to the left.
If you have questions, comments or suggestions for the website or forum itself feel free to contact the webmaster here.
9. You may not post any message that is commercial by nature.

10. Any posts that encourage illegal intent will not be tolerated and will be removed. The posting of or linking to pornography; discriminatory remarks which are sexually explicit, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive; excessive obscene or vulgar language; posts which discuss or illustrate illegal activity; providing links to sites that contain any of the aforementioned. Using partial masking of profanity (such as asterisks or punctuation marks) is discouraged and can result in the same action as if the actual word had been typed.

11. DO NOT impersonate anyone whom you are not, regardless of who the other individual may be. Identity theft is illegal and will not be tolerated. You are expressly forbidden from impersonating anyone else, even in jest.

12. Only one account per person is permitted.

13. Post your comments to the most appropriate place. No cross posting. Post your message once, to the appropriate forum. Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.

14. Please respect the privacy of others and do not give out information such as phone numbers and addresses of others.

Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure this forum is not disrupted or abused in any way.

We reserve the right to change these rules at any time. Public posts debating these rules and/or moderators' enforcement of such, will be removed without comment. Feel free to contact the webmaster with comments, concerns or questions.  Contact webmaster here.  We welcome your feedback.

* Lastly there is also a button for reporting abuse so that forum members may alert a moderator/webmaster to a potentially non-compliant post. Once reported, the post or thread can be taken off the site.

* Please use this reporting mechanism in good faith; people reporting posts out of spite may lose posting privileges. 

Thank you.