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Why Use These
Forums?
The Power Wagon
Advertiser has promoted the Dodge all wheel
drive truck hobby since July of 1984. The
magazine experienced a slow evolution,
starting with a typewriter, scissors, and
glue, continuing with the acquisition of a
computer, and in this more recent era,
establishing apresence on the web.
In order to better
provide Dodge truck enthusiasts worldwide with
information and stimulation, Power Wagon
Advertiser forums are being opened for your
use, education, entertainment, and use as a
serious research tool aiding you in the
pursuit of your passion for Dodge trucks.
The central purpose
of these forums is to provide for the exchange
of information among owners and enthusiasts,
to aid in acquisition, operation, repair and
restoration of Dodge all wheel drive trucks,
both military and civilian, beginning with
those manufactured in 1940.
Owners with
commercial and hobby interests have need for
information, whether it be for educating the
newcomer or assisting the veteran in resolving
complicated problems. These forums, equipped
with sophisticated search capabilities, will
serve as an expanding database, or knowledge
base. As the database of threads becomes more
populated, there will be that much more depth
for research. These forums will become looked
upon as the place to go for answers to truck
questions of all kinds.
As the forums are
used, there may be evolution with regard to
the numbers and content categories of forums.
The number of forums currently in existence is
the result of assumptions based upon patterns
of interest displayed by enthusiasts and
commercial owners.
Users are strongly
encouraged to place their posts in the proper
forum. This will enhance the possibility of
other users performing useful searches at a
subsequent time. Threads that are placed in
the wrong forum will be moved to the correct
forum, for the benefit of all those using the
forums. There is a forum provided for
exchanges of communication that are not
relevant to the normal forums, so the content
of subject specific forums is not diluted by
off topic posts.
These forums are
places where anyone can visit and feel
comfortable. If you want your 70 year old
mother or your nine year old kid to sit with
you and read, they will be able to do so
without encountering vulgar or abusive
language, sexual content or images.
Every effort will
be made to see that these forums are free of
objectionable material. Any user who finds a
post to be objectionable is encouraged to
report it to this site's administration. Every
effort will be made to respond to concerns as
soon as possible.
Software features
are in place to prevent the use of foul
language. Any person or persons determined to
be in violation of standards of decency will
be barred from use of these forums. The
administrators of this site reserves the right
to edit or delete any post without notice or
explanation.
These forums are
driven by an application called vBulletin. It
is a feature rich application. You may choose
to use very few features, or you may decide to
use many. No matter which path you follow, you
will find it to offer a very user friendly
environment; one that will yield many obvious
benefits.
Once really nice
feature is the mechanism that will send you an
e-mail if there is a response to a thread to
which you have been posting. This prevents the
need for you to be frequently checking for new
posts.
In the beginning,
certain features of vBulletin will not be
available until trends regarding usage levels
can be identified. As a clearer picture of
usage levels emerges, more features will be
added.
Welcome to our
facility, enjoy the varied truck subjects and
make some new friends. We thank you for your
patronage. Since this is a startup effort,
there may be some questions to struggle with
and some bugs to work out. Hopefully you will
be charitable enough to be patient when we hit
a bump in the road.
Have fun with it...
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