Grill Forum and Guidelines

The Grill Forum is a moderated forum.  That means that its contents are constantly monitored by the moderator or moderators.  If you post messages to the Grill Forum that violate any of the Grill Forum Guidelines your messages will be deleted at the discretion of the moderator or moderators. Messages posted to the Grill Forum that are about subjects other than BBQ, Grilling (exp: virus information) may be deleted by the moderator.

By posting a new message or a reply to an already posted message you are acknowledging that you have read the Grill Forum rules and agree to follow and abide by them.

The Grill Forum is open to the public in the sense anyone can read the contents of the Grill Forum.  However, posting messages is a privilege that is granted to everyone as long as you follow the rules.  If you break the rules your messages will be deleted and your posting privileges may be revoked, that privilege will be revoked by the moderator or moderators. 

Slanderous, derogatory, posts will not be tolerated, and will be deleted as soon as they are brought to the moderators attention.  The Grill Forum is a friendly place and any posting to the Forum  that disrupts this atmosphere will be deleted.  The moderators attempt to read every message posted.  However if you discover a post that you feel is not proper the please email the moderator at   and proper action will be taken.  The main rule of the forum is "if you don't have something good to say then don't say it."

The Grill Forum is not a chat room.  It is a place where people can ask questions and they should not feel that they will be criticized or made fun of.  If you want to chat please go somewhere else.  Nobody here wants to read about private chatting between people. Demeaning posts to the forum containing ethnic or regional slurs will be deleted.  If these rules are violated by any individual all their posts will be deleted and their ISP will be blocked from posting further messages.

The Grill Forum is a place where you can share information and ideas about Grilling. 

Any message posted on the Grill Forum becomes the property of the Grill Forum.  Nobody can reprint any message posted to the Grill Forum without the written permission of Ray Basso.

If you break the rules of the Grill Forum you messages will be deleted.  In some cases you will receive an email from Ray Basso, if you break the rules, asking you to call him.  You will be given a toll free number to call and it is imperative that you contact Ray as soon as possible.

The following is a list of the rules and guidelines of the Grill Forum.  If you find anyone has posted an improper message to the Grill Forum please contact the moderator.

1.     No profanity or lewd suggestive language.  An occasional "damn" or "hell" is OK.  However, lets keep the Grill Forum a place that any of our friends, relatives, or employers would find proper.  Several 'bad words" are automatically blocked by the functions of the forum.  We can add other words please try to keep it clean.

2.     There should be no messages posted advertising your business, promoting web pages, or promoting events unless someone asks for that information.  Attempts to get around these rules will be regarded as "spam" and those messages will be removed.  It's OK for someone who is providing good information on the the Grill Forum to use the links at the bottom of  messages to point them to your business or web page or event.  Please do not abuse this.  You cannot add html "signatures" containing links to web sites or an email address on your posts to the Forum.  

A notable exception to rule #2 is "using the Grill Forum to promote other forums about Barbecue except the BBQ Forum.  This is a prohibited practice and such messages will be deleted and if there is additional violations of this rule the URL of the offending site will be blocked

1.     Let's keep the "flaming posts" to a minimum.  The Grill Forum has had a long history of good natured joking and that should continue.  If you don't like something someone said please respond by email.  Do not try to name people and make derogatory statements about them.  Such messages will be deleted and could lead to you being denied access to posting messages in the future.

2.     Please do not use all CAPS when posting messages.  Many internet people consider all caps to be like shouting at someone.  The automated functions it the BBQ Forum should block you from using all CAPS.  So don't waste your time.

3.     If you don't want to use your real name on the Grill Forum then try to pick an original nickname or handle.  Anyone caught trying to impersonate someone else will be dealt with as best we can. 

4.     The posting of you email address is strictly up to you.  If you don't want to post your email address then don't post it.  If you post any email address you are subjecting yourself to chance of receiving junk email.  Many junk email programs routinely scan forums of this type and collect email addresses.

7.     The Grill Forum is automatically archived there are too many message for the forum to operate efficiently.  During the course of posting messages to the Forum some threads are allowed to progress that would not be suitable to appear on the archives.  These threads will be deleted from the Grill Forum just before the archive process takes place.  Threads that would be deleted include, but are not restricted to the following examples: off-subject, controversial, inflammatory threads and threads that may have an appropriate short life on the forum but nobody would care to read in the future. 

8.     Do not use "Special Characters" in the subject line to attract attention, or for what ever reason, when posting messages.  Such messages will be deleted.  Exp:  Smoking chicken>>>!!!?????%%%%

These rules and guidelines are subject to change at anytime.  It is the responsibility of the people using the Grill Forum to occasionally review these rules.  You not knowing there has been a change is no excuse.

Thanks

Ray Basso