Forums Policy

By clicking the "I agree" checkbox on the registration and profile page, you agree to abide by the following policies:

1. The following material is prohibited on the Selene Owner's Site and forum:
   • Any material that does not pertain to building, equipping, maintaining, operating and cruising aboard Selene trawlers.
   • Advertising or any form of commercial solicitation. Postings of equipment items and boats for sale by private individuals are allowed only in the "For Sale" forum, and should be limited to Selenes and cruising equipment.
   • Any material which libels, defames, abuses, or threatens others or is inflammatory.
   • Statements that are bigoted, hateful or racially offensive.
   • Messages that advocate illegal activity or discusses illegal activities with the intent to commit them.
   • Material that contains vulgar, obscene or indecent language or images.
   • Unauthorized copyrighted material.
2. Harvesting of subscriber e-mail addresses or other contact information for any purpose is not permitted. This does not prohibit a subscriber from contacting other subscribers privately by email or other means for non-commercial purposes. It does mean that assembling a list of email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, or other contact information for any other purpose except private non-commercial individual communication is explicitly forbidden and is grounds for terminating a subscription and being banned from subscribing.
3. Everyone who participates in the forum must register as a user and is required to provide their first and last name and a valid email address. Other contact information may be optionally provided. Anonymous registrations and registering using false names are not permitted.
   
4. The Selene Maps function of the site displays the approximate locations of Selene Trawlers on a map provided by GoogleMaps. The maps MUST NOT BE USED FOR NAVIGATION and the positions of the Selenes are based on information volunteered by owners and are only as accurate or current as the information provided by the owners. The locations are provided only for the purposes of facilitating social connections between owners and not for ANY navigation purpose.
   

Posting Guidelines

• Use an appropriate subject line in email.The Selene owner's forum allows reading and posting via a web-site "bulletin board" and/or via email. If you post via the web site, topics are automatically separated and you can respond to a specific topic. If you post via email, please be careful to use an appropriate subject line. If you are responding to a posting on the same topic, please just reply without changing the subject line. However, if you're starting a new subject or replying but changing the subject, please change the subject line in your email. That will keep the subjects appropriately separated in the archives and on the web site.
• Snip your replies.When replying to another post, only include the bare minimum text of the last post (if any at all) to set the context of your reply. Every reply post requires some degree of snipping (i.e., trimming). We want to read what you want to say, not a second printing of the prior post. Besides, shorter replies take less time to post and download while aboard relying on slow and expensive access.
• Be careful how you reply.The forums are setup so that your replies by default go back to the entire forum. However, if you're sending a reply that is really only relevant to an individual, please don't send it to the entire forum. If you are responding to an individual, please reply directly to that individual-not to the entire forum.
• Please be polite.Nothing will destroy the community atmosphere of the forum faster than personal attacks or arguments. Even if you disagree with someone's ideas, you must be polite and respectful in your response.
• Everyone is welcome.Keep in mind that the public forums are open to everyone. That includes members of the marine trade and owners of other manufacturer's boats. We welcome posts from any of these individuals as long as they are within our policies. If you have questions about whether your posting is appropriate, please contact the list administrator before you post.
• Private e-mails in public posts.Do not post the contents of private e-mails you have received from others unless you have the permission of the original author.
• Copyright protected materialAny copyrighted work (e.g., a newspaper clipping or text from another web site) may not be posted without explicit permission of the copyright owner. The easiest way to deal with copyright material is to just provide a link to the original so other list readers can find it.
  

Site & Forum Administration

• Administrators are volunteers.Please keep in mind that the administrators of this site and forum are volunteers. They are not paid to do this, so please be considerate of their time in any requests you make, or in complying with any requests the Administrator may make.

• The Site is supported by Jet Tern Marine and the Selene dealers. Jet Tern Marine (manufacturer of the Selene Trawlers) and the Selene dealers provide some financial support for the operation and maintenance of the site. However, they do not exercise any level of control over the site contents and policies. They are free to request policy changes, as are any owners, however, site policies are ultimately set by the volunteer administrators and the owners.
• Self policing.The Selene Owner's site and forums are largely self-policing. Apart from guest postings submitted via the "Visitor Question" function, posted mesages are not reviewed by a moderator before they are published. Guest postings are reviewed for compliance with our forum policies. We all depend on each other to follow these policies. However, if a subscriber consistently violates site policy, the administrators may, at their discretion, terminate a subscription and ban new subscriptions from that individual.