We have a Terms of Service describing your (and our) behavior and rights related to content, privacy, and laws. Yes, legalese is boring, but we must protect ourselves – and by extension, you and your data – against unfriendly folks. If you have any further questions about how things should work here, open a new topic in the site feedback category and let’s discuss! If there’s a critical or urgent issue that can’t be handled by a meta topic or flag, contact us via the staff page. This site is operated by your friendly local staff and you, the community. You may not post descriptions of, links to, or methods for stealing someone’s intellectual property (software, video, audio, images), or for breaking any other law. You may not post anything digital that belongs to someone else without permission. Rather than taking an existing topic in a radically different direction, use Reply as a Linked Topic. Rather than posting “+1” or “Agreed”, use the Like button.
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Don’t post anything obscene or sexually explicit. Don’t post anything that a reasonable person would consider offensive, abusive, or hate speech. Nothing sabotages a healthy conversation like rudeness: Moderators do not preview new posts in any way the moderators and site operators take no responsibility for any content posted by the community. In order to maintain our community, moderators reserve the right to remove any content and any user account for any reason at any time. If enough flags accrue, action will be taken, either automatically or by moderator intervention. It encourages the bad behavior by acknowledging it, consumes your energy, and wastes everyone’s time. With your help, moderators can be community facilitators, not just janitors or police. Moderators have special authority they are responsible for this forum. Let’s try to leave our park better than we found it. Use these tools to improve your own experience, and everyone else’s, too. Help us influence the future of this community by choosing to engage in discussions that make this forum an interesting place to be - and avoiding those that do not.ĭiscourse provides tools that enable the community to collectively identify the best (and worst) contributions: favorites, bookmarks, likes, flags, replies, edits, and so forth. The conversations we have here set the tone for everyone. Instead, provide reasoned counter-arguments that improve the conversation. Responding to a post’s tone instead of its actual content.
But, remember to criticize ideas, not people. You may wish to respond to something by disagreeing with it. Please spend some time browsing the topics here before replying or starting your own, and you’ll have a better chance of meeting others who share your interests. One way to improve the discussion is by discovering ones that are already happening. Be respectful of the topics and the people discussing them, even if you disagree with some of what is being said. The topics discussed here matter to us, and we want you to act as if they matter to you, too. If you are not sure your post adds to the conversation, think over what you want to say and try again later. Help us make this a great place for discussion by always working to improve the discussion in some way, however small. Use these guidelines to keep this a clean, well-lighted place for civilized public discourse. These are not hard and fast rules, merely aids to the human judgment of our community. We, too, are a shared community resource - a place to share skills, knowledge and interests through ongoing conversation. Please treat this discussion forum with the same respect you would a public park. This is a Civilized Place for Public Discussion
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