Originally Posted by savewave

1. Non-supporting vendors can't use the Forum to market and promote their goods/services. We allow members to include a link in their signatures to their businesses so long as it does not compete with a supporting vendor, is not Corvette related AND does not conflict with any other Forum rules. The vendors involved do not fit that guideline and may not use the Forum for promotion of their goods/services.

2. Forum members can post about a good experience they have had with a non-supporting vendor so long as that post is not so specific (address, phone number, e-mail address, URL) or so frequent as to constitute marketing and promotion. The links included and repeated references to some of those involved put them in conflict with our rules/guidelines.

3. There is some kind of rivaly and/or personal dispute involving one or more of these non-supporting vendors that has resulted in personal attacks and repeated bashing. Forum rules allow for the posting of a factual account of an unresolved dispute so long as every reasonable effort first has been made to resolved the issue offline. After the factual account has been posted, it goes into the archives and cannot be reintroduced on subsequent days and in a variety of sections. The dispute in some of the links you provided is in conflict with those rules/guidelines.

Bottom line: Nobody is exempt from Forum rules/guidelines. The vendors mentioned must stop using the Forum to promote their goods/services or risk being banned. The loyal followers of each vendor much stop promoting the services provided by their friends because it has exceeded what is allowable. The bashing of vendors (supporting or non-supporting) and Forum members is always inappropriate and must stop.