• Anything ‘published’ on the web is viewed as intellectual property and, regardless of whether it displays a copyright symbol or not, is therefore copyrighted by the originator. The only exception to this is if there is a “free and unrestricted reuse” statement associated with the work.

    In order to protect our members and TFL from possible litigation, all members must abide by the following new rules:

    1. Copying and pasting entire articles from another site to TFL is strictly prohibited. The same applies to articles from print or other media, and to posting photographs taken of copyrighted pages or other media.

    2. Copyright law provides for “fair use” of portions of a copyrighted work. You can copy no more than a SINGLE paragraph from the article to your post (3 or 4 sentences at most).

    3. You must provide a link to the article along with the name of website. For example: ww.xxx.yyy/zzz (The Lower Thumbsuck Daily News).

    4. You must provide, in your own words, a brief summary of the article AND your reasons for believing it will be of interest to TFL members. Failure to do so may result in the thread being closed or your post being deleted as a “cut and paste drive by.”

    5. Photographs and other images are also copyrighted. "Hotlinking" of images (so that it appears in your message) from other sites is also prohibited unless you own rights to the image. If you wish to share an image, provide a clickable link to it.

    Posts that do not follow these new guidelines will be altered or deleted by staff. Members who continue to violate this policy may lose their posting privileges at TFL.

    Thank you for your cooperation and your participation in TFL, the leading online forum for firearms enthusiasts.

How do I post a poll?

If you have a valid reason for a poll, you simply check off the Yes box below the thread text box in the "Post a Poll" section, and change the number of poll items to the number you will have in your poll (you will have an opportunity to change that so you don't have to exact in the first go).

Fill in the thread text box with the content of your first post that will introduce the poll, and fill in the thread title (do not add the word Poll, it's automatically added to the title). Then submit the thread.

The next screen is where you fill in the options, the poll question (can be different from the thread title), and select the various attributes of the poll. Be sure to enter the number of days you want the poll to run. If you don't fill that in, it will run forever which makes no sense for a poll. Double check the items to be sure they are as you want them, check the spelling, etc. Submit the poll and you're done.
 
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