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<span style="color:blue">'''Help us foster an environment that leverages your enthusiasm within a culture of good humor ... and rigorous analysis!'''</span> | <span style="color:blue">'''Help us foster an environment that leverages your enthusiasm within a culture of good humor ... and rigorous analysis!'''</span> | ||
= General Points of Etiquette = | |||
* Use your judgement when choosing a username. Don't start out on the wrong foot by choosing something offensive. Be polite and friendly on arrival! | |||
=== Content === | |||
*Please use standard English grammar, punctuation, and capitalization. Organize your post into short paragraphs for easy reading. | |||
* The use of "Leet-Speak" and chat lingo is very unfriendly to foreign-language speakers, or those unfamiliar with these conventions. Such conventions are not in the spirit of this community, and offenders will be warned. | |||
* Please don't use [Caps Lock] or all caps for thread titles of any substantial part of a post. | |||
* Wait a reasonable amount of time (more than 24 hours) before "bumping" your topic. | |||
* Refrain from "Double Posting". Please use the [Edit] button to correct this when done accidentally. | |||
* When editing or modifying a post, please add your new message on a new line starting with "EDIT:". It can be very confusing and possibly even unfair if a post to which another user has responded mysteriously changes. (The exception is minor spelling or punctuation corrections, no EDIT note necessary in such cases). | |||
* On guides, how-to's, or anything else in that realm, a basic edit changelog is acceptable, just make sure to state what you changed. | |||
* Any post with the following will be immediately removed. '''PLEASE DO NOT''' ... | |||
: ... post anyone else's personal information... <u>ever</u>. | |||
: ... discuss or assist in illegal activities such as software and music piracy, warez, cracks, serials, etc. This includes linking to other websites with said material. | |||
: ... re-create a deleted or locked thread for the purposes of trying to keep it going. | |||
: ... post flashing or strobing images or text. | |||
: ... reply to a thread without anything to contribute (e.g., "First", "Second", etc.).{{Note|Agreement expressed via '+1', '-1', :thumbsup:, :thumbsdown:, /signed, and other short notes of agreement/disagreement <u>are acceptable</u> (as long as the minimum post length is met). These rules are more relaxed in the Non-STEP Related Discussion forum.}}: ... use <i>excessive</i> amounts of large, colorful, or otherwise annoying text just to emphasize your words. | |||
=S.T.E.P. Wiki= | =S.T.E.P. Wiki= | ||
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=S.T.E.P. Boards= | =S.T.E.P. Boards= | ||
=== Posting === | === Posting === | ||
* Use your common sense when posting. If you are inexperienced with internet community life, have a read through a few pages to get an idea before posting. If in doubt about the tone of your post, pause, grab a hot cocoa, a coffee, a beer, a glass of wine or a shot of tequila. Then come back and <u>preview</u> your post, read it, and ask yourself: "Is this offensive or needlessly provoking?". If the answer is anything but "of course not!", then please don't post it. | * Use your common sense when posting. If you are inexperienced with internet community life, have a read through a few pages to get an idea before posting. If in doubt about the tone of your post, pause, grab a hot cocoa, a coffee, a beer, a glass of wine or a shot of tequila. Then come back and <u>preview</u> your post, read it, and ask yourself: "Is this offensive or needlessly provoking?". If the answer is anything but "of course not!", then please don't post it. | ||
* New users on a forum are often upset when they receive a seemingly curt reply to their post. This will often occur if the question or comment has already arisen (often repeatedly) in recent posts. Even the nicest communities tend to get irritated by this. Make good use of the search feature <u>before posting</u>, especially if you're looking for support, and always read back a couple of pages before posting ... your question may have already been answered. | * New users on a forum are often upset when they receive a seemingly curt reply to their post. This will often occur if the question or comment has already arisen (often repeatedly) in recent posts. Even the nicest communities tend to get irritated by this. Make good use of the search feature <u>before posting</u>, especially if you're looking for support, and always read back a couple of pages before posting ... your question may have already been answered. | ||
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* Links to any harmful websites/software, virus, referral sites, etc. are also prohibited and will be removed with prejudice. The community will not tolerate this sort of abuse, and offending accounts will be removed and their users banned. | * Links to any harmful websites/software, virus, referral sites, etc. are also prohibited and will be removed with prejudice. The community will not tolerate this sort of abuse, and offending accounts will be removed and their users banned. | ||
* Each person is allowed to have <u>one account only</u>. Posting with multiple accounts is known as 'sock-puppetry', and is totally against the spirit of honest and fair discussion. We'll remove all of a user's accounts if we discover multiple sign-ups. | * Each person is allowed to have <u>one account only</u>. Posting with multiple accounts is known as 'sock-puppetry', and is totally against the spirit of honest and fair discussion. We'll remove all of a user's accounts if we discover multiple sign-ups. | ||
=== Signatures === | === Signatures === |