Forum Guidelines

IMPORTANT DISCUSSION FORUM GUIDELINES
PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING ON THIS SITE
Below are some important things to note when posting in the forum. Please follow these guidelines to help us keep information organized and in line with our group mission and topic. The more we grow, the more important it is to follow community standards.

Please keep all content you post in the public forum focused on the topic of diving in general and your underwater experiences. If you want to talk off-topic, please do so in your personal blog.

1. Please refrain from advertising.
There are many entrepreneurs and small business owners in this network. There are a lot of networks that are intended to help you market your services, but this isn't one of them.

We kindly ask that you NOT advertise your products, services or post logos or product shots in the discussion forum or public image gallery. Any discussion strings or images construed as advertising will be deleted by our forum moderators. If a member is sending you solicitation messages or wall comments, please REPORT THE ISSUE so we can contact the member and remind them of the no advertising rule.

NOTE that IT IS ACCEPTABLE to mention your business or include a logo or product shots on your PERSONAL profile page or in your blog posts. The best way to attract people from this community to your business is to participate in our community discussion forums.

2. Check archives.
Before posting, it's a good idea to look through the forum archives to see if your topic has already been posted. If it has, you can add a comment to that discussion string and it will bring that topic up to the top of the list and it will appear on the main page again. Please take a few seconds to do a few keyword searches in the forum archives first.

3. Use a specific and clear title and select the best post category.
ALWAYS TITLE your discussion posts using brief and clear titles that indicate what your post is about.

Below are GOOD examples of clear and specific titles:
I Went Cave Diving in Maui

Examples of POOR titles (too vague)
I Went Diving

Our forum has a number of topic categories, which are all clearly defined on the forum page. When posting a new discussion, please do your best to choose the most appropriate category for your post.

4. Use keyword tags.
ALWAYS TAG YOUR POSTS with keywords so people can search by topic easily. The tag box is RIGHT below the box where you type your post.

FORMAT FOR KEYWORD TAGS:
USE QUOTE MARKS around words you want to "appear together"
SEPARATE each keyword tag with a COMMA -- Comma goes OUTSIDE your closing quote mark.

Example: Here's how I would tag the cave diving example above.
"Cave Diving", Maui, Hawaii

If you need help posting a new discussion in the forum, there is a helpful how to here.

If you haven't already, please also make sure you have read the Unified Team Diving Community Code of Conduct.

If you notice something worrisome, please promptly REPORT THE ISSUE and our network administrators will address it as quickly as possible.