The forum rules are quite simple:
General Rules:
- While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters.
- You cannot post advertisements or notices for contests.
- Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or similar posts.
- Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.
- Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum email and private message system to spam other members.
- We do not allow posts that are sexual in nature or violate appropriate community standards.
- Discussion of illegal activities such including intellectual property theft is not allowed.
- Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
- We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
- Posts must be in English.
- These rules cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.
- We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules, as access to our forums is a privilege and not a right.
There is nothing against the rules or against the spirit of the rules in posting a request for services.
There is nothing against the rules or against the spirit of the rules in responding honestly to a specific request. This specific request is for someone in upstate New York who can give an estimate for the restoration of a residential window. Someone in upstate New York who responds honestly to a specific request would not be advertising. Someone in California who took the opportunity to comment on their fantastic new designs for church windows would be, as they would not in any way be addressing the specific request for services.
If in doubt, respond with a private message to the person making a request. This would not be considered spamming (and therefore against the rules as well as against common decency) since the person being sent the message made a request for services as long as the services offered could be reasonably understood to meet the request made.
The rules are not intended to stifle discussion; they are intended to create a fair and reasonable framework for the honest discussion of matters relating to stained and decorative art glass. The rules were created in response to some unfortunate abuses against common courtesy and decency. As it has become abundantly clear that not everyone posting in forums on the Internet has an understanding of the basic tenets of courtesy and decency, the rules will, I hope, help to point these unfortunate wretches in the right direction and to provide a basis for asking them to take their posts elsewhere if they are not capable of meeting the standards of this community.
