I never felt any difficulty at all.
But yes, they are very particular about a certain tough posting etiquette which they expect of their members. These are adequately brought out in the Announcements section of the forum.
No SMS or slang, proper capitalisation and punctuation, no abusive language using special characters are but a few.
In the registration process one is required to give a not-more than-60 words writeup on "Why Team-BHP". It is here that most people seem to tumble down. I understand that this test has come up recently - may be a year back and before that it was a free entry for one and all.
At some place in the forum, the administrators have even mentioned that it is not even essential that one should be a car-enthusiast to be a member. If so, then it boils down to one's ability to express himself in proper and fluent English.
I did not even go through the announcements section before registering, and that seems to be a mistake.
I wrote something casually for I had always believed that my English is good and impeccable. I also shun SMS language and slang and had never approved it - though once in a while, I had deviated even in this forum in a mild form, here and there, just for the kick of it.
My first registration was not approved. I was indeed furious but then after the initial upsurge of the emotion died, I went through the Announcements section.
During the second attempt, I did not change much of what I wrote earlier but restricted it to 60 words ( the first one was a little more than that), broke down the compound and complex sentences (my usual style) to simple sentences and ahaaay... now I had many full stops and I rigorously applied the "one space after any punctuation" rule which I presume they look for with a hawk's eye and then to my delight , I was in.
There are people who had persistently tried umpteen times for over a year and more and finally got in. There are people who succeeded in their first attempt and I presume that many gave up disgusted. ( One can find threads running on this subject in various forums, with members showering their choicest abuses on team-BHP and I had gone through these too
.) And yes, not more than two smilies in a post or else the mods' wrath turns on you.
That said, the contents of the Team BHP forum,including the search function is totally accessible to one and all. For any automobile related info you can always look into it.
