Terms & Rules

The providers ("we", "us", "our") of the service provided by this web site ("Service") are not responsible for any user-generated content and accounts. Content submitted express the views of their author only.

This Service is only available to users who are at least 16 years old. If you are younger than this, please do not register for this Service. If you register for this Service, you represent that you are this age or older.

All content you submit, upload, or otherwise make available to the Service ("Content") may be reviewed by staff members. All Content you submit or upload may be sent to third-party verification services (including, but not limited to, spam prevention services). Do not submit any Content that you consider to be private or confidential.

You agree to not use the Service to submit or link to any Content which is defamatory, abusive, hateful, threatening, spam or spam-like, likely to offend, contains adult or objectionable content, contains personal information of others, risks copyright infringement, encourages unlawful activity, or otherwise violates any laws. You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content or your conduct.

We may remove or modify any Content submitted at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice. Requests for Content to be removed or modified will be undertaken only at our discretion. We may terminate your access to all or any part of the Service at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice.

You may not access the Service through automated or programmatic means (such as through a content scraper) without prior permission from us.

You are granting us with a non-exclusive, permanent, irrevocable, unlimited license to use, publish, or re-publish your Content in connection with the Service. You retain copyright over the Content.

These terms may be changed at any time without notice.

The MGEVs.com forum rules set out below are considered part of these terms.

If you do not agree with these terms, please do not register or use the Service. Use of the Service constitutes acceptance of these terms. If you wish to close your account, please contact us.

Primary forum rules

Last revised 9th October 2023. Most recent change highlighted in Yellow.

Users of MGEVs.com

• when posting
  1. must not submit libellous, insulting, antagonistic, racist, aggressive or otherwise abusive Content about any individual or company.
  2. must not submit swear words in such a way as to circumvent the MGEVs.com built-in swear word removal system.
  3. must not submit any images or text which are pornographic or violent or otherwise inappropriate.
  4. must not promote websites which contain inappropriate material (such as pornography) or which are in competition with MGEVs.com.
  5. must not submit promotional information about any illegal activities (such as piracy). We will not permit people to use the forums to distribute files which are pirated or aid in the production of pirated material.
  6. must not submit any spam. Spam is defined as any unsolicited message which promotes websites, products or services for the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware, personal monetary gain, etc. including the repeated posting of referral codes (links in signatures are fine). People posting spam will be, in most cases, instantly and permanently banned, their posts will be deleted and their details will be submitted to the Stopforumspam service so that they will then not be able to use those details to re-register with either MGEVs.com or the many any other communities which use that service.
  7. members who own, operate, represent or who are affiliated with a commercial enterprise or competing website must not submit messages which reference that organisation in any way unless they are an MGEVs.com sponsor (please use the contact form to enquire about this). This rule prohibits promotion of, and providing support for that organisation. More details about rule 7 are given below.
  8. must not create their new threads in more than one forum. (Doing so is called cross-posting). You should pick the single most appropriate forum for your message. Duplicate posts will be deleted.
  9. must not use URL shorteners. Shortening URLs is not permitted on MGEVs.com because it does not allow moderators to easily check that posted URLs are appropriate.
  10. must not abuse the post ratings system. Either by soliciting positive ratings either in posts or by private conversations (positive ratings must be earned legitimately) or by using ratings inappropriately to antagonise members.
  11. must not question the judgments or actions of forum moderators. They are far too busy to enter into discussions or arguments.
• when creating an account
  12. must not have avatars or signatures which contain the branding, names, details or contact information for any commercial enterprise which they own, represent or are affiliated with, or any website competing with MGEVs.com unless they are an MGEVs.com sponsor.
  13. must not have an inappropriate login name. We do not permit a login name which breaks any of the rules or which references a business, service or product unless they are an MGEVs.com sponsor.
  14. must not register more than once unless they are an MGEVs.com sponsor. Doing so may get one or both registrations and all the posts deleted.
  15. must not re-register once banned. A ban from MGEVs.com means you are no longer welcome to use our website. Re-registering will lead to a permanent ban of the new account and a complaint to your ISP.
  16. must not use animated avatars. Since avatars are displayed often in the forums, a constant animation will likely be distracting/irritating.

We find that the vast majority of forum members have no problem with the above rules. However, if any of them are broken, then moderators will take appropriate action to ensure the forums remain a pleasant place to visit.

Disputes with moderators

If any forum member feels they would like to dispute a moderator's decision, first contact the moderator who made the decision at issue, or another moderator within that forum if the original moderator is unavailable. Politely explain why you disagree and request that they review their decision.

Additional and more detailed rules and guidelines

New members may find the following guidelines useful. They are here to help you make the most of MGEVs.com.

Your account

1. Login names must not be offensive. Additionally if you use a login name which is considered to be too similar to an existing user's login name (to the extent that it would cause confusion) then we reserve the right to change your login name. Login names must not include include business names unless the member is an advertiser with MGEVs.com.
2. If there is a dispute over the use of avatars, the user who first used an avatar has the option of retaining it and the new user of the avatar will have to select an alternative. We reserve the right to remove people's avatars as we see fit.
3. Please make sure your email address is kept up-to-date. If you change ISP or move jobs etc., please remember to update your profile with your new email address. In addition, if you install a spam filer, please specifically allow our emails through. We regularly send out messages to forum members and if an email sent to you bounces back for any reason we may well deactivate your registration.

When submitting Content

1. Search for existing answers in the forums before posting a new question. You may find an answer much more quickly if you use the search facility.
2. Post questions once only. Even if you think it is relevant in several forums, you should pick the most relevant and post it there. Your question will be seen by lots of people wherever you post it. Duplicate posts swamp the forums and will most likely get deleted.
3. Please do not post text in ALL UPPER CASE. The internet community considers this to be SHOUTING and therefore discourteous.
4. Please avoid using txt speak. There is plenty of capacity for creating eloquent, correctly punctuated posts. Txt speak will not get a good response from forum members.
5. Threats of suicide. We believe that advice to people contemplating suicide should only be given by people suitably trained to do so. We suggest anyone feeling suicidal should contact an organisation in your country which can give appropriate advice. The Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123 (free call) in the UK or the Republic or Ireland. Threats of suicide either explicit or implicit made in the forums will likely result in the message being removed.

More about rule 7

Members who own, operate, represent or who are affiliated with a commercial enterprise or competing website may not submit messages which reference that organisation in any way unless they are advertisers on MGEVs.com. This includes promotion of and providing support for that organisation.

If we were to allow organisations to promote their businesses in the forums, we would have many posts from manufacturers advertising their products and retailers selling their wares. This would annoy readers.

It may be tempting to some individuals representing companies to covertly invite business by pretending to be, for example, a 'satisfied customer'. This is very unwise, since if such dishonesty is discovered (either by members or moderators), and publicly exposed (as it often is), it could embarrass or even tarnish the reputation of the company in question.

Right of Reply
Organisations have a right to reply to criticism on MGEVs.com, but they must do this without making any self promotion.