Forum Rules
Version 1 · October 24, 2026
This is a business forum for people who run shops. The rules are strict on purpose: a voice here is worth weighing only if it is one shop, firsthand, and honest about what it sells. Agreeing to these rules is required to post.
1. One shop, one voice
One account per person, and your account speaks for your shop. No alternate accounts, no sockpuppets, no shared logins. A second account found speaking for the same shop gets merged or removed — and tagged either way.
2. Sign up as who you are
Use your real name and your real shop. Impersonating a person, a shop, or this site ends the account.
3. Vendors: labeled, and no selling in the discussions
Vendors have a place here — and advertisement doesn't. If you sell it, your account carries the vendor label. Selling belongs outside the discussions, in the paid spaces. And a vendor's word on their own product carries no weight here; shops' reported outcomes do. If it touches what you sell, sit it out or label it.
4. Firsthand means firsthand
Post experience you actually have. Passing off copied, bought, or AI-generated text as your own shop experience is fraud against every member who weighs your words — it is the fastest way out of this forum.
5. Back it, or label it
Say what's a result, what's an opinion, and what's a guess. Attach the document when you have one — code text, safety data sheet, spec sheet. Code and safety claims get checked against the document, not against confidence.
6. Disagree all you want — with the claim
Argue the claim, never the person. No harassment, threats, slurs, or pile-ons. If a post needs an insult to stand, it doesn't stand.
7. Business only
No politics, no religion fights, no spam, no chain posts, no affiliate links, no off-topic noise in the work rooms. This is a working forum for people who run shops.
8. Other people's information stays theirs
No posting customers' names, addresses, contracts, or job photos without their permission. No harvesting member emails or contacts, no scraping the forum, no soliciting members by direct message.
9. Pricing talk is yours to share — not to coordinate
Post your own prices, margins, and hard lessons freely; that's what the Business & Pricing room is for. Using the forum to fix prices or divide work with competitors is prohibited, full stop.
10. Safety is not a debate club
Advice that would put a person, a building, or the public at risk gets tagged on sight. Not sure a practice is safe or legal? Post it as a question, never as a method.
11. Moderation tags; it doesn't quietly erase
Violations are labeled where they stand, and the ladder is public: tag, warning, suspension, removal. Spam, scams, and illegal content are the exception — those come down outright. Any removal can be appealed once, in the open.
12. Your words are yours
You keep ownership of what you post and grant Journeymen the right to display it. Posts are members' experience, not professional advice — and on any code question, the authority having jurisdiction has the last word.
Reading is open to everyone. To post, sign in — you'll agree to these rules as part of signing up.
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