Do I have to register?
What is the mission of this forum?
What are the rules of the forum?

Can I change my User-Name?

There are several benefits to registering with the forum. Registration is required if you plan to post or reply to threads on the forum. Registration will provide you with e-mail options, user-preferences, quicker posting, notification of new messages and many other benefits. 

Registration is free, the information you provide will not be disseminated, and you are not required to post your real name. You are required to post your actual email address, however.

Kamado.com and it's forum is a website designed to serve as a gathering place for people around the world, to provide a limited, moderated forum for the courteous and civil discussion of issues and experiences related to using Kamado cookers specifically, and to a much lesser extent, using ceramic cooks in general.

The user, by posting statements on this forum, agrees to fully indemnify the operators and moderators of this forum, for all legal costs and, if applicable,
legal damages (including punitive damages), incurred as a result of posting statements which are found by any court to constitute a tort, including, but not limited to, libel, slander, commercial disparagement, and copyright infringement.

GUIDELINES AND RULES

1. Topics: Limited to using Kamado cookers, and barbeque style cooking in general. Specific topics outside these bounds may be acceptable at the discretion of the forum Administrator, Manager, and/or Moderators.

2. Civility and Courtesy: All members, by their participation, agree to maintain high levels of civility and courtesy toward other members. Understanding that "Civility and Courtesy" mean different things to different people, members agree to accept the standards exemplified by the editing, locking, and/or deletion actions of the forum Administrator, Manager, and/or Moderators.

3. Forum Administrator, Manager and Moderator actions: Those who own and/or are charged with running this forum will strive at all times to be as consistent in their decisions as possible. Members by their participation acknowledge that the actions of those charged with running this forum are undertaken with an objective desire, but a subjective eye, and agree to accept these decisions as final. Also, sometimes a violation will not be noticed, despite the best efforts of the Moderators. This does not mean they "let" it happen.

4. Threads get moved. If it's no longer there, it's probably somewhere else. Find it. The current thread volume does not permit for detailed offline explanations as to why your inquiry about "who was on that black Cruiser last Saturday" actually belongs in the On The Road forum.

5. Justification: First, this site is maintained/managed/moderated by selected VOLUNTEERS in their spare time. The total dollar value of their time commitment to this site runs into the six figures, for which you are not required to pay one single cent in order to enjoy this community. Second, explanation for editing or deletion of any post, or the closing or deletion of any thread, may be requested off-line. Such justification is not guaranteed to the inquirer. However, if offered it is as a courtesy, for educational purposes, and/or to ensure that whatever the cause will not be repeated. No further off-line discussion or contact will be entertained. Online topics related to forum Administrator, Manager and Moderator actions, are not allowed except in the forum Issues and Support forum, and are subject to the same civility and courtesy rules as all other discussions.

6. Revocation: A member's posting privileges may be revoked at any time, for any period of time, including permanently. Re-registering under a different screen name during an active revocation period is grounds for immediate and permanent banishment from the forum. Anyone reinstated after a period of revocation will need to use a new screen name and their number of posts will begin again at zero.

7. By their participation, all members fully accept that this is a privately owned website and that no member has any rights to do anything on this site apart from those privileges the website's ownership and management bestow on a revocable basis. You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages.

8. Humor: Members, the forum Administrator, Manager and Moderators all acknowledge by their participation that this is a very subjective call. By its very nature, humor is usually at the expense of a person, group or entity. Thus, self-deprecating humor stands the best chance of acceptance. Inflammatory humor (whether or not the victim feels flamed), racist and/or sexist humor will not be tolerated. Off-color humor is strongly discouraged.

9. Language: Foul language will not be tolerated. Generous use of asterisks, or the commonly used euphemisms found above the number line on most keyboards (i.e. !@#0^&*), may be allowed. You agree, through your use of this forum, that you will not use this forum to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violate any law.

10. Misc: No member may have more than one screen name. All members must list a valid e-mail address so that forum administration may contact them as needed. For more info see the forum FAQ.

11: Members of the forum community may not claim to represent the community in order to negotiate group discounts, bulk purchase agreements or other such activities that might permit direct profit to a member or group of members.

12: Other Inappropriate Use: Advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are inappropriate on this forum and will not be tolerated.

Changing your User-Name

Keep your e-mail address private

When you register to be a member of the forum, you have an option in your preferences to keep your e-mail address private. You can go into Edit Profile and make sure that the Do not display my real e-mail address with my profile option is checked.
 

As with all your preferences, you can change this setting at any time. I would like to remind you that I would never sell or otherwise distribute your e-mail address.

Posts not Showing up

If you are having a problem with your posts or replies not appearing immediately, its because your ISP is using something called a cache server. A cache server stores copies of pages and when you go to a web site, you get the copy, not an original. This is done to speed up load & connect times.
Our bulletin board is a dynamic system - always changing. If your ISP has a cache server, you have to wait until it updates in order to see the latest postings.
With some ISP's, you can request that certain pages, URLs etc... not be cached. If you are having this problem, please contact your ISP and explain that you are using a site that that runs Discus forum software and you want a bypass or no-cache status for the www.kamado.com site.

Moderators
Moderators control individual forums. They can edit, delete, or prune any posts in their forums. If you have a question about a particular forum, you should direct it to your forum moderator.

Changing Your Profile
You may easily change any info stored in your registration profile, using the "profile" link located near the top of each page. Simply identify yourself by typing your username and password and all of your profile information will appear on screen. You may change any items, except your username.

Banishment
Moderators may elect to prohibit your involvement in the forum by banning your e-mail address or IP. This is a final result of inappropriate behavior on the forum or violations of the rules. 

Editing Your Posts
You may edit your own posts at any time. Just go to the topic where the post to be edited is located and you will see an edit icon on the line that begins "posted on..." Click on this icon to edit the post. No one else can edit your post, except for the forum moderator or the bulletin board administrator. A note is generated at the bottom of each post that is edited so that every one knows when a post has been edited. Note that if your post was the start of a new topic, deleting your post will result in the removal of the entire topic (all replies after your topic will also be deleted). You can not delete your post completely, so if you want to make changes to your post, you can simply edit out the content and replace it with some thing else.

Searching For Specific Posts
You may search for specific posts based on a word or words found in the posts, user name, date, and particular forum(s). Just click on the "search" link at the top of most pages. Note: announcements are not included in the search returns.

Censoring Posts
The bulletin board administrators have the power to censor certain words that may be posted. This censoring is not an exact science, however, so certain words may be censored out of context. Please realize that the censoring, if any censoring is being performed, is being done by a computer based on the words that are being screened. Words that are censored are replaced with asterisks.

Lost User Name and/or Password
Retrieving your username and password is simple, All of the pages that require you to identify yourself with your username and password carry a "lost password" link that you can use to have your username and password emailed instantly to your email address of record.

Email Notification
If you create a new topic, you have the option of receiving an email notification every time someone posts a reply to your topic. Just check the email notification options in your profile, if you want to use this feature.