Hello,

But can we use our website name instead of our real name when we sign off our postings to get around this little rule? That would be so convenient for keeping our commercial profile high while technically not violating any rules.

Sincerely,
The Ultimate Zapper

Hello forum readers,

I have noted recent comments on this forum about the rules and regulations. It has been noted recently by a forum poster that I have an agenda. This is correct. My agenda is to point out that the rules and regulations are not enforced equally on the forum for all participants. You may remember that the first posting I made on this forum was to defend my zapper. It was in response to a zapper maker who made negative, argumentative and untruthful, comments about The Ultimate Zapper - “pathetic clips and cheap-looking footpads”, saying that he was merely quoting another poster. I could not allow that to pass without responding and I believe that is understandable.

The following questions concern only the rules and regulations on this forum. They are not introduced as an argument or a debate. They are introduced as questions with the hope that they will be clarified. I believe they deserve to be answered clearly and in a straightforward manner so that everyone on the forum can understand them. I also believe that there is no reason for this string to be deleted from the forum because these questions deal strictly with the clarification of rules and regulations which should be a matter of interest to all who read and participate in this forum. They apply to one and all.

In posing these questions I make the assumption that zapper makers are allowed to ask questions on the forum about the forum’s rules and regulations. I believe this is a reasonable assumption. Here are my rules-related questions:

a) Are zapper makers allowed to “advertise and promote their zappers in any way, including “plugging”, on the forum?

b) Is “plugging” recognized by the forum’s rules committee as a synonym for “advertising and promotion”?

c) If a zapper maker were to explicitly state that he intended to “plug” his zapper on the forum, and then followed through, what would be the response of the forum’s rules and regulations committee?

d) Are zapper makers allowed to make negative comments about other zapper makers, their sites or their products on this forum?

e) If zapper makers make negative comments about other zapper makers, their sites or their products on the forum either directly or by quoting someone else who does so, is this recognized by the forum’s rules and regulations committee as being “argumentative” and provocative which is a violation of the forum’s rules and regulations?

f) If zapper makers make negative comments about other zapper makers, their sites or their products on the forum either directly or by quoting someone else who does so, is this recognized by the forum’s rules and regulations committee as a negative form of “advertising and promotion” and as a violation of the forum’s rules and regulations against any form of “advertising and promotion”?

g) If zapper makers make negative comments about other zapper makers, their sites or their products on the forum either directly or by quoting someone else who does so, is this recognized by the forum’s rules and regulations committee as being “argumentative” and provocative and a violation of the rules concerning being “helpful and supportive”?

h) Are zapper makers allowed to defend their products, their sites and their name against negative, untruthful or provocative comments made about them on the forum by other zapper makers?

i) Are zapper makers allowed to say, on the forum, that their zapper can kill cancer? Is this considered “advertising and promotion”?

j) Are zapper makers allowed to use the name of their zapper or the name of their website instead of their real name, or a pseudonym, to sign off their postings in order to get around the forum's ban against promoting zappers and zapper sites on the forum? Does the forum’s rules and regulations committee recognize this as a violation of the rules and regulations against using the forum in any way for the “advertising and promotion” of any zapper or any zapper site?

Sincerely,
The Ultimate Zapper

Hello forum readers,

The rules committee did not respond to my request for rules clarification. I don’t think this is a great surprise. They refused to clarify some simple questions about the rules, responding instead with one-liners. They are very frugal and it should be clear why. The users of this forum only have the right to know the rules that the rules committee allows them to know. But they do not have the right to know all the rules because the refusal to answer simple questions about the rules indicates that there are some rules that are hidden. Hidden things are interesting, aren’t they? Why is the rules committee hiding behind a wall of silence? What are they hiding? What are they afraid of? Don’t tell me, let me guess, the name of the game is making it look like the game is played according to the rules when it really isn’t. The name of the game is CONTROL.

Anyway, keep those zapper questions coming. As long as they’re about troublesome health problems and foot pads and handholds and parasites and other everyday zapper things, no problemo. You’re in the clear. But if you like to look at really interesting things, uh oh, you’re in trouble, you’re “arguing and debating”. What’s the forum’s rules committee gonna do about these interesting things? Absolutely nothing. Things like the use of the forum for commercial purposes which is supposed to be against the forum’s rules but really isn’t, exemplified by

1. The “news announcement” of the New Pathways article by ParaZapper (an article which is a hoax, as was the “news announcement”, and which I talk about in earlier postings at length).

2. The “news announcement” of #1 in zappers sales by the #1 in zapper sales, ParaZapper.

3. The stated intention by ParaZapper on this forum to “plug” his zapper here.

4. The use of the ParaZapper name, the name of a commercial website selling a product by the same name, for signing off postings instead of a non-zapper name. "Mentioning of personal websites is not allowed", I was told in an earlier posting. Really?

Signing off with the name ParaZapper is a clearly a commercial “plug”, it is advertising and promotion that is openly accepted on the forum, but advertising and promotion are supposed to be against the rules. They clearly aren’t.

What’s the rules committee gonna do about all this? Absolutely nothing. When you come on the forum you don’t talk about these things, that’s one of the hidden rules, and you don’t ask questions about these things. Then you’re in the clear. But if you do talk about them and ask questions, aaaooooowww, you just stepped on somebody’s toes, boy. Now, that’s against the rules!

This sure is a great forum, eh?

Sincerely,
The Ultimate Zapper