Here you can find answers to questions about how the board works. Use the links or search box below to find your way around.
Though we do have paying authorized vendors who help support our site and members, we do not allow the promotion of products and services in our public forums from an unauthorized vendor. Our forums are not to be used as a means to produce revenue for your business. Do not use our public forums to announce new products, pricing, availability, market feedback, etc. This applies to unauthorized vendors. Authorized vendors are allowed to promote their business in our Vendor Promotions/Discounts forum ONLY. They are not to discuss their products outside that forum. Authorized vendors are allowed to respond in the technical forums and recommend their own shop only for services.
The signature area should only be used for your first name and a short description of your car. That's it. If it's anything more than that, your signature will be removed or edited - and you will lose the ability to use the Signature area for multiple offenses. We'd prefer that you just used your first name in your signature. Images are no longer allowed, since you can use the Avatar feature to post an image of your car. When we say short description, we mean:
Avatars
Avatars should consist of a photo of your DSM. If you don't own a DSM or don't have a photo of your DSM to use, please do not use the feature. The photo should be 170 pixels wide. If it is not that size, it may not display correctly. Please, no photos with people posing with your car.
If your signature or avatar is removed by the Moderating Team, then you probably didn't adhere to this policy. Do not attempt to challenge the removal or attack the moderators for the removal - both in your new signature or anywhere else in the forums. We feel the rules are very simple and make sense for everyone. Don't get banned over something as stupid as a signature file, please.
The intent of this Gallery is to share photos of your DSM with other enthusiasts.
What is allowed:
Exterior, interior and engine bay shots of your own DSM (Eclipses, Talons, Lasers, and Galants only).
What isn't allowed:
Most transactions will likely turn out fine, but protect yourself and don't be naive. There are some people out there trying to make a quick buck by ripping people off. Take every precaution possible when doing business with other people online.
Rocky Mountain DSM respects the privacy of our visitors and site members. We commit ourselves to protecting your privacy and explain in detail what information we collect and how it is used below.
What we collect
Rocky Mountain DSM collects personal information from you when you register to participate, enter a contest, or complete a survey on our website. Personal information consists of your email address, first name, last name, password, street address and zipcode. If you enter a sweepstakes, contest or survey we may also ask you for some demographic information such as your age or income range. Other information collected may include your IP address, browser type and operating system.
How we use this info
The information collected is used for administration purposes and to help improve the services we provide. This information will not be sold, rented or disclosed in any way to outside parties unless required to do so by law. We also may disclose aggregated information (for example, X number of our viewers visit the Gallery section) to third parties.
Use of cookies
We set and access cookies on your computer each time you access our website. These cookies are used to determine whether you have been to our website before, to automatically store your password, and to ensure the efficient use of ad rotation.
Receiving Email from us
We occasionally send out email to our members to announce site news and updates (no more than once per month). This email only goes out to those who have chosen to receive email from our website. If you no longer wish to receive news or updates, you can change this option setting in your profile.
Audit Clause
Rocky Mountain DSM administrators reserve the right to audit all user data stored on the system for any abnormalities at any time. This information is never shared to anyone outside of the administrator team. This data includes but is not limited to IP addresses, e-mail addresses and personal data.
RMDSM staff may read messages in the system, when an abuse report is filed or for other administrative purposes.
You agree to accept all liability for the legality of content you send through PM and will not hold RMDSM staff responsible for any damages that result.
This policy is subject to change, so please check back periodically. Direct all questions regarding this policy to the webmaster.
What you should know if you use an AOL account to connect to our site:
If you are an AOL user, you may find it difficult to participate on our site. Without going into heavy detail on how vBulletin (our forum software) works, let us just say that AOL makes it difficult for forum administrators to ban specific AOL members from posting. AOL uses dynamic IP addresses, which means that many AOL users share the same IP address. This means that if we ban an AOL IP address, many other AOL users can potentially be affected when trying to login to our site.
We apologize if this happens to you, but you'll have to take it up with the people at AOL - not us. They choose to use dynamic IP addresses, which makes it difficult on all forum administrators. They've also shown no interest in helping sites like ours solve the problem or track down fraudulent or problematic users of their service. Until they change the way they conduct business and the way they address site owners like us, we'll continue to encourage all AOL users to consider alternate ways of connecting to the internet, especially if you plan on participating in online discussion forums like ours.
Rocky Mountain DSM is in no way affiliated with Diamond Star Motors, Mitsubishi Motors, Chrysler, Eagle, or Plymouth corporations. We are a web community which promotes the sharing of ideas and communication between all of our members in a respectful and honest manner.
Our Mission
The number one goal of Rocky Mountain DSM is to promote the modifying of DSM cars for increased performance. On our site, image and styling take a back seat to substance and real world performance. We cater to the performance enthusiast, promoting the sharing of information and ideas regarding modifications, parts, and the results of those modifications. We are an inclusive community that isn't selective in our registration process, however we do demand a certain level of respect and maturity from our members. We have a small set of rules and policies that everyone is required to follow.
We discourage elitist and negative attitudes and encourage teaching and helping. At the same time, beginners are taught how to do their own research and to not spread rumors and misinformation. We feel this creates an environment everyone will benefit from for years to come.
Rocky Mountain DSM takes pride in having a community that's knowledgable, experienced, and most of all helpful and friendly; attributes that are difficult to find all in one site. Register today for access to participate in our forums, our photo gallery, our free Classifieds system, and to search our Tech Forums database for valuable DSM modification information.
Background
Rocky Mountain DSM was established on January 30th, 2002 and was designed to offer a forum based organization for the Rocky Mountain region.