FishExplorer Forum Rules and Guidelines
Forum Rules
This forum is intended to share ideas, opinions, fishing information, ask questions, and more, and has to be a place where everyone feels comfortable participating.
Failure to follow the rules below may result in your privileges or posts being removed, and posting privileges suspended. We reserve the right to remove any post for any reason, without notification or recognition.
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Be Courteous
Write posts with common courtesy to other members and readers. Strictly argumentative posts are not allowed.
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No Personal Attacks
Do not target other members in your posts. If a thread indirectly exposes an issue you feel strongly about, start a new forum topic addressing it or write
an opinion piece to publish as a guest blog. If a topic directly exposes an issue and solicits opinions, reply with respect for original poster and others.
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No Profanity
There are young anglers among us, so set a good example. Do not use profanities, including references to profanity & comments that are considered taboo
or adult in nature. That goes for you too, kids.
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No Advertising
Do not promote personal or third-party products and services with which you are affiliated, without written permission from FishExplorer.
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Photographs
Do not post objectionable material, including images that show disrespect for fisheries, waters, parks, and the FishExplorer audience and membership. Do not post images that you do not have permission to reproduce.
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No Promotion of Illegal Activity
No promotion of any illegal activity, including but not limited to trespass, poaching, game law violation, unlicensed guiding, unapproved (no use permit) fishing contests, etc.
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Website Issues
If you have a question or complaint regarding these rules or moderator actions, do not post it to the forum, instead contact the website administrators via email.
Forum Guidelines
Just a few helpful tips
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Opinions
Opinions are allowed and encouraged. It is often difficult to express your opinion without offending someone. Offer your opinions with well-thought-out language,
follow rule #1, reiterate that you are expressing your opinion, and be respectful of others' opinions. Use terms such as "I think" or "In my
opinion." Avoid responses such as "you are wrong." Bear in mind that any time you reference another member directly, your response may be taken personally
and could be considered hostile. Be respectful and courteous: apply polite consideration and respect to other viewpoints, even if you disagree.
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Best Practices
Refrain from using all capital LETTERS - use sentence-case. Write in complete sentences. Refrain from using acronyms and shorthand as much as possible so
new anglers can understand your message. Most browsers have spell-check in the box you use to submit your post - use it. Use paragraphs to split long text.
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Vague Replies
A reply that curtly suggests that the member use different resources to find information is not congruent with the purpose of this forum. Please do not post
replies that emulate "you should go Google this" or "have you tried searching via AI?" Instead, if this is all there is for you to contribute, consider
trying a separate search on the subject yourself and replying with the phrase you found success with, what search resource you used, and what information was gleaned.
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Assign post to Lake, River and/or Fish
If your new topic post is about a specific lake or fish species, select it from the drop-down menus when you start the new topic. This helps catalog the posts and if a Field Editor is involved with the lake, they will receive notification of your post.
