Rules Clarification

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
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