Guidelines

Registration and account names:
Registration to WheelHorseForum.com is free and encouraged to enter all the areas of the forum and required to post. Usernames must be 3 characters and not contain offensive words. Members are free to change their display names after at least 1 post on the forum. You may change your display name 1 time every 120 days.

Deletion of accounts will only be done if the account has zero posts, is a spammer account or if required because of legal action. Please don't request your account to be deleted simply because you wish to leave the forum. Contact a moderator or administrator to have your account placed in an inactive state if you wish to leave.

General forum conduct:
The purpose of WheelHorseForum.com is to discuss Wheel Horse tractors. Members are encouraged to participate in all areas of the forum, but refrain from offensive language, pictures, gestures, or any actions meant to provoke other members whether directly or indirectly. WheelHorseForum.com has members whose age is under 18, and members who allow their children to view the site. Please keep all aspects of this forum family friendly. If you think it may not be acceptable, it probably isn't.

Political, religious, sexual, or any other language deemed to be offensive is strictly prohibited.

Use of WheelHorseForum.com may be restricted or revoked for violation of the rules of the forum and at the discretion of the staff.

Signatures:

You are encouraged to create a personal signature. To do so, enter the

User Control Panel

and select signature from the list of items to modify. Signatures can be a maximum of 5 lines and can contain links. See section on linking to other sites for restrictions on links. Signatures must comply with all the forum rules and also may not be used for classified sections. Use of pictures is discouraged, and the staff may either request the removal of the picture in your signature, or remove it themselves. Please be considerate, signatures are usually on EVERY post that you make, so keep them short and to the point.

Avatars:
Avatars are small pictures which are associated with your account. The size of the avatar is restricted by forum settings. Avatars may be any picture provided it fits the general guidelines of the forum. Any avatar which is deemed offensive will be removed by the staff.

Posting:
WheelHorseForum.com is broken down into many technical areas. When posting a new topic, please attempt to select the best area to post in. Please refrain from making non-constructuve remarks in the technical areas. When someone's asking for help, replying with non-relevant remarks, inside jokes or sarcastic responses are never helpful. In the non-technical areas, this is more acceptable, but having one or two members "taking over" a topic is unacceptable in any area.

Please refrain from "text talk". How r u, is not a replacement for How are you? Proper grammar, punctuation and spelling are always appreciated and make your message that much more readable.

Posting with the intent to sell an item is prohibited in the forum. ALL items for sale must be placed in the classified section, no exceptions.

Chatbox:
The Chatbox is a forum feature that allows members to post a "shout-out." It is not intended to be used for tech questions, jokes, general discussions, classifed ads or support as those areas all belong in their appropriate forums.

Classifieds:
The classified section is for member owned products / equipment OR if the member is representing a friend / neighbor in the transaction for that item for which they will be solely responsible for.

If posting for a friend please contact an admin or moderator for approval PRIOR to posting.

Classifieds must:

Include a price (any ad mentioning highest bidder will be removed)
Multiple items may be included in a single classified, but each must have it's own price associated with it.
Include a location
NOT be a link to eBay or other on-line classified (regardless if the item is yours or not)
Wanted ads do not need to include a price unless it's relevant as to maximum they will pay.

If you have a continuous supply of products which you would like to offer to our members, please contact the administrators regarding becoming a vendor. Products can not be sold in the forums.

Manuals:
It is recognized that the manuals section contains documentation copy written by companies such as Toro ©. The manuals which are provided in WheelHorseForum.com are downloadable copies of documents for which WheelHorseForum does not hold the copyright to. Upon request of the copyright holder, we will remove that item from the forum.

Our intent is to provide historical information for products. WheelHorseForum.com does not approve of the distribution of documents which are currently for sale by the owner of the copyright. Please report any such item to the staff. WheelHorseForum.com does not condone "pirated" items.

Linking to other sites:
You may link to other sites under the following guidelines.

1. The information being linked to is proprietary or copy written and should not be copied to WheelHorseForum.com

2. You are linking to an item which is in direct reference to a question being asked.

3. Any link residing within WheelHorseForum.com is acceptable including classifieds.

Links to on-line resources, other forums or personal websites must be placed in the

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in the appropriate area. You may not link to your personal website in your signature unless you are a recognized vendor of the site.

If you have a personal website (Wheel Horse related) and you provide a link in the

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please reciprocate by providing a link to WheelHorseForum.com on your site too!

Links to eBay, Craigslist or other items listed of sale on other sites are prohibited even if you own the item listed on those sites.

Staff:
Staff consists of site owner, administrators, moderators and files moderator. Their jobs are to insure that the forum remains enjoyable and as such have the task to uphold the rules of the forum.

Please respect the decisions made by the staff of WheelHorseForum.com, as their decisions are final.

When you disagree with the actions taken by the staff of WheelHorseForum.com, please take that issue up in private.

WheelHorseForum is not affiliated with the Toro Corporation and does not represent them. WheelHorseForum.com is owned by Karl Lyon. All software, hosting, skins designs and addons have been properly licensed from their respective companies.