# Forum Etiquette - please read **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [February 28, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/forum-etiquette-please-read/8889 "2025-02-28T16:05:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Erik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.progressionproject.com/erik/32/4_2.png) [@Erik](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/Erik)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/forum-etiquette-please-read/8889/1 "2025-02-28T16:05:40Z")
Hey Everyone! It’s amazing how the forum has grown over the last 2 years! We’re now at over 1700 users and averaging over 130k page views per month! It’s rad to see the consistent, high value conversations happening on a daily basis. For the most part the crew here is positive and helpful with very little negative, which I believe reflects the foiling culture more broadly. With regard to the negative, I want to reiterate a few of the ground rules before I take any action against a couple users and will refrain from calling anyone out personally. Let me start by saying I believe fully in free speech. The forum has been a great test for me personally as from time to time folks will say negative things about a foil I’ve spent months working on, it would be so easy to just delete it, but I never have, and won’t. We all have different feels and are optimizing for different conditions and there’s value in those discussions. That said, over the past couple months more than a few users have sent me notes about posts that they feel have crossed a line. One of our rules here is that you can’t use the forum just to promote your own products, and when that is happening in an egregious way I send a note to the user. It’s now time to inverse that rule and say that it is also not permitted to use the forum to denigrate someone else or their products. Posting a review is ok, but hijacking an unrelated thread to throw shade isn’t. Nor is posting private emails or messages. If this applies to you please take it as a fair warning, the next step will be your account being silenced. The forum has grown into an amazing learning tool and it needs to reflect the stoke and positivity that we all love about foiling. Thank you, Erik ---
**Author:** ![Spraylord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Spraylord](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/Spraylord)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/forum-etiquette-please-read/8889/2 "2025-02-28T16:20:10Z")
Thanks Erik, really appreciate the work it must take to keep this forum alive. Definitely the best place for detailed foiling discussions on the web. On an unrelated note, I recently bought a baseball hat with a major foil brand’s logo on it and I’m very disappointed in the stiffness of the brim. Wondering if anyone in the PNW has a test setup for hats I could use to measure the torsional stiffness of my hat as compared to other hats. The entire point of the cap is to cover my eyes from the sun, but if I’m carving as hard as I aspire to I’m concerned the brim will simply deform as I whip my head around at Mach 5 during turns. This momentary sun exposure could both increase my lifetime risk of skin cancer and more critically may cause me to squint slightly. I’m convinced this slight squinting action is the main reason I’m crashing, causing a premature end to what would otherwise surely be an endless, unbroken session of perfect turns. Sorry to hijack your thread but we need to bring attention to the increasingly important issue of hat stiffness. ---
**Author:** ![SpokeyDoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@SpokeyDoke](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/SpokeyDoke)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/forum-etiquette-please-read/8889/3 "2025-02-28T16:21:28Z")
> [@Spraylord](#): > > Definitely the best place for detailed foiling discussions on the web. +1…thanks Erik! ---
**Author:** ![Erik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.progressionproject.com/erik/32/4_2.png) [@Erik](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/Erik)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/forum-etiquette-please-read/8889/4 "2025-02-28T16:33:27Z")
This got me 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![df-sf](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.progressionproject.com/df-sf/32/149_2.png) [@df-sf](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/df-sf)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 3:02am UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/forum-etiquette-please-read/8889/5 "2025-03-01T03:02:10Z")
Appreciate having a fabulousforum that isn’t on Facebook! ---
**Author:** ![AnacortesRigging](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.progressionproject.com/anacortesrigging/32/4936_2.png) [@AnacortesRigging](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/AnacortesRigging)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/forum-etiquette-please-read/8889/6 "2025-03-01T16:28:03Z")
> [@Spraylord](#): > > I recently bought a baseball hat with a major foil brand’s logo on it and I’m very disappointed in the stiffness of the brim. Arntson Marine is the answer! Best hats every built! ---
**Author:** ![noripplez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cdc98d/32.png) [@noripplez](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/noripplez)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/forum-etiquette-please-read/8889/7 "2025-03-01T16:48:51Z")
Thank you, Erik, for continuing to maintain high standards for the vibe of this forum, for the consistent work you put in, pro job!