General Rules To The Community - Everyone Must Read

[Louie]

To all new members that are posting for the first time. Please read through these five basic rules and abide by them. Nonsense will not be tolerated and we do not give warnings to new members. (If you own a handicapping service see rule #2 immediately). This is a sports handicapping forum of class and is to be treated as such. There are good guys here. We treat everyone here as if we were hanging out, sitting around the card table, and watching the game.

Rule #1 - No Selling in Regular Forums: There is no promoting or advertising of sportsbooks, other sports forums, chatrooms, or non-endorsed handicapping services, etc. If you are interested in advertising on this site, please contact our advertising department. There is no reference to handicapping services or other site promotions allowed in the regular forums. This includes creating usernames called "XXXX Sports" or "XXXX.com" which is not allowed unless you are an endorsed capper promoting in the site promotions forum. This also includes calling your the plays the you post "Free Picks" which is also not allowed as every pick our members post are free. We do not offer consensus reports or discuss what service is playing what game. This is not that type of forum. We do our own handicapping at this board. Do not try and recruit the members here for any purpose. This board is for handicappers or players who want learn more about handicapping on their own. URL's are also not allowed to be posted in member profiles. Spammers and link builders are also not welcome on this board. We have an eye for all the different sneaky marketing tactics. If you are attempting to promote on this board by sneaking links into your posts, LEAVE NOW. If you run another sports forum or website and your idea is to mention your forum, website, blog, or chatroom enough times to get members to ask you about it, we will pick up on it. Again, this forum is for discussion of sports, picks, handicapping systems, betting strategies and other tactics. It is NOT for recruiting and/or promoting other betting sites.

Rule #2 - Attention: Rules for Handicapping Services: (Non services may skip this rule if this doesn't apply to you) Our "Cappersinfo.com Endorsed Handicapping Services" are the only users that are permitted to post on this board. Endorsed services are permitted to post free picks with promos in the "Endorsed Handicapping Service" forum of these boards ONLY. If you wish to promote a sports service, then you must become an endorsed handicapping service which includes membership at the Free Sports Picks Monitor. Again, if you are here to promote a sports handicapping service, then you must contact us for details about becoming a "Endorsed Handicapping Service" on this site. Any handicapping service at all who attempts to promote in the regular forums outside of the "Handicapping Service" forum will be immediately banned and will not be allowed to promote here or post here again. We do not give out warnings on this rule. We do not tolerate spammers that come in here, choose not to read the rules, and think they are going to make a quick and easy dollar off of this site. Do not even try it. We'll have you banned within minutes.

Rule #3 - Respect our sponsors: If you are going to discuss sportsbooks and/or the book that you got your line at, the only books that are to be discussed are our sponsor sportsbooks. Our sponsors are listed at the top of the site and links to reviews of these books are provided. They are all solid and trustworthy books. These are the books that keep these forums alive by funding all projects and features of the site. They are respectful of what we do. Please do the same back to them. We also work closely with these sponsor books and if any Cappersinfo Player Status member has an issue or problem with one of our books, we personally assist in resolving the issue for them.

Rule #4 - Prove Your Skill By Example: Do not come in here and make claims that you are the greatest handicapper in the world and everyone should bow down to you. Nobody is going to believe that you are a better handicapper when you have posted for a few days of winners or shown a slight hint of handicapping skill. This is not that type of board. Do not be looking for people to kiss your ass because you post a few winners in your first 50 posts here. If that is what you are looking for, go somewhere else. Your past record at other forums, monitors, or before you started posting doesn't matter here. Do not come in here stating that you hit a certain percentage of your plays before you started posting here. At these boards, you show that you can handicap on your own by posting at least one full profitable season of picks and by showing the other members that you have class. That is how you earn respect here.

Rule #5 - You're not the best Going on a hot streak doesn't make you "the man" or give you the right to boss people around here. Just like real sports; act as if you have been on a hot streak before. Everyone is here to help one another. This board is not for bashing and talking trash. It's for quality sports handicapping discussion. Friendly handicapping competition is welcomed. Good solid handicapping work is noted and obliged by other members. But do not expect special treatment for a hot week or month. We all are here to help one another and enjoy the games.

Rule #6 Deal With The Idiots: If you have a problem with another member, please private message Louie or any other moderator. Do not take the matter into your own hands. Be patient with everyone and calmly/politely report any nonsense. Treat others how you wish to be treated.

This genre of interactive community can be a hassle for our admins and moderators. We sometimes deal with a lot of garbage posters but we do not tolerate nonsense. This is board for adults (not 2 years olds). Act like it. If this is a problem, then you are in the wrong place. All new members are welcome and we look forward to having you as part of our community. Welcome to boards.

Your Admin,
Louie