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Prompted by a member's suggestion, there's now an option for making contributions in support of this site . With the new contribute to HB option, you'll automatically be assigned as a seller in the Buy/Sell forum for one year AND your profile will include a nice Supporter ♡...

I participate on a programming site called Stack Overflow. They are a dedicated Q&A forum and are hyper-focused on neatly delineating the topic; their FAQ How do I ask a good question? offers very good advice for anyone seeking answers, notably this excerpt:

Obviously...

We greatly appreciate those vendors who share their knowledge with the site's membership. However, for someone who sells coffee or coffee-related equipment, there may be a fine line between sharing one's enthusiasm and (unintentionally) soliciting the site's visitors for...

TL;DR... Please see How do I ask a good question? for recommendations on how to promote more search-friendly and goal oriented discussions.
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I have noticed XYZ owner threads are popular on CoffeeGeek (e.g., the three year old The Baratza Vario Grinder Owner's Thread and...

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To-date there's been no need to formally publish forum rules, however I would like to share Team HB's guidelines for fruitful online discussion:

Note that these guidelines aren't a list of No blah blah blahs. Most HB members have been around enough public forums to recognize...

Regrettably spammers are motivated to join sites that allow liberal rules on forum signatures. To reduce this incentive, effective immediately, the board will enforce new signature restrictions for members until they have established a history with the site.

Specifically, a...

This post elaborates on the Guidelines for productive online discussion recommendation Avoid cross-posting . Cross-posts are not strictly forbidden, however they should be used sparingly. For example, if a topic posted on another site is given time to develop and yet goes...