Moved over from old forum.
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Since we are now getting some Supporting Vendors I thought it would be a good time to lay down some ground rules about advertising in the forum.

Basically if you are trying to sell a product do not use the forums as free advertising. Only Supporting Vendors are authorized to post about their products.

There area few reasons for this.

Running this website costs money and time and without the support of the vendors and the Premium Members the website could not exist.

This website in the first 20 days of July 2004 produced over 30GB of traffic and is still growing. We might soon get to a point where we will have to go to a dedicated server and the cost of running the website will increase dramatically.

Having Supporting Vendors will help pay for running the website as they pay a monthly fee to have a banner ad, a forum area, and to sponser a forum topic. It also helps to pay for other things like the patches, decals, contest prizes, etc... The money generated may also go to support various events like Sportster Specific Meets or to help out a Professional Sportster drag racing team.

The Supporting Vendors are also enthusiasts that offer products that you as a Sportster Enthusiast may need or want. They also feel that this website is important to the Sportster riding community and would like to see the website contiune to bring together Sportster riders from all over the world.

Therefore from this point forward I will ask all members not to advertise anything in the forum. This does not mean that you can not discuss products. If you use a product and are not trying to sell it or support a non-supporting vendor then feel free to discuss it. Also do not put links to commercial websites in your signature. I consider this advertising.

The classified section is still open ro rgeister members to sell parts as long as it is not a commercial venture.

If you are interested in having a banner advertisement and a forum topic for your business please PM me.

These rules may and probably will change with time.

The above post was written before we were on dedicated server.

Bert do you have a page with a list of the supporting vendors & links to them?

Gary

Just a quick reminder for everyone. Advertising your own business is not authorized on XLF unless you are a Supporting Vendor.

Our Supporting Vendors are:

Aswracing at NRHS V-twin Performance. www.nrhsperformance.com

If anyone would like to become a supporting vendor please contact me directly.

Thought you would catch that one. That is why I didn't give him a welcome. Thought it was very bad form.

Thought you would catch that one. That is why I didn't give him a welcome. Thought it was very bad form.
I wasn't thinking :( Sorry 'bout that.

Bump again.

I want to remind everyone that advertising your business on XLF is a no-no unless you are supporting vendor. This includes links to commericial site in signatures. If you have a business related to Sportsters or motorcycles in genral you may post a link in the links section.

It costs time and money to keep this website going and we have three supporting vendors that are helping to pay those costs.

I ask that if you notice someone posting info or pushing their produtcs that are not supporting vendors to please click on the little yield sign and report the post.

Our current supporting vendors are:

Aswracing (Aaron) at NRHS V-twin Performance. www.nrhsperformance.com

Our supporting vendors support you by supporting XLF.

If after posting your link in the personal/services section, if someone is asking about a certain service/part, would it be out of line to post and direct them to your own site?

i.e. "Yea, I can help you with that. Look under services and go to www.XXXXX.com"

or better to have them contact you off the board?

just trying to clarify so as not to step on any toe's!!

Jamie

Great question.

If you see a person asking about a certain porduct or service and you can provide that product or service you may PM (Private Message) them with your info.

Please do not post your info in that thread or in the public forum.

Cool! Understand and wilco.

Jamie

I was in violation, unaware of the rules, but in violation. For this I apologize. I like this forum very much, did not intend to cause a problem.

trouble maker!

You did not cause a problem. You were unaware. When the website first started almost two years ago and it did not cost me much ($7.77 a month) to run.

As the site became popular it started crashing servers and we got kicked off by three hosting companies.

Now we are on a dedicated server that I am renting and it costs quite a bit. The original software that the site was running on was also free but it was slow, buggy and there were new vulnerabilies on it every month. The software I run on now and the photo gallary software also costs quite a bit.

In order to make ends meet I started the Premier Membership and Supporting Vendor program. Frankly, without these two programs the website would go away.

The contributions form these two programs go to pay for the server, software. All Premier members recieve patchs. I also run a contest (try to at least once a month) where I give away items such as parts, tools, leather cloths, etc and the contributions also go to pay for these items.

I try to purchase the prizes from the Supporting Vendors because they do so much to help out the forum.

Thanks for your understanding.

I was in violation, unaware of the rules, but in violation. For this I apologize. I like this forum very much, did not intend to cause a problem.Pilot,

I wouldn't consider you one of the big nasty offenders that have popped up a few times in the past. After all you designed that jockey shifter with aome input from this forum.

The first time you started talking about it was a forum member just yabbering with other forum members about how you wanted to build your own custom piece of hardware.
Nothing wrong with that, it should be encouraged!

Then you went on to start fabricating the prototype and you posted a bunch of pictures.
Nothing wrong with that, it should be encouraged!

Then you finialized your design and wanted to let us all see the final design.
Nothing wrong with that, it should be encouraged!

Then you posted a link to your website... You probably should have just said PM me if you'd like one.

Now I can't find any of your old posts or pictures??? I don't think the entire threads should have been deleted. Only the website link in the final thread.

Gazza

Updated info can be found here:

http://www.xlforum.net/forums/showthread.php?t=6209