First of all, welcome to the community! We hope you thoroughly enjoy your experience and benefit from everything we have to offer. Before diving in (or if you feel a refresher is needed), please take a moment to read through our rules of conduct.
Within the community, we strive to create a safe online space for holding civil, lively discussions. Please refrain from posting or uploading any sort of content solely to provoke or upset other users. While diverse opinions, including negative comments or minority views, are welcome, members of the Community are expected to support their stances without using offensive language or resorting to name-calling.
By using this forum you are agreeing to adhere to the rules outlined below:
GENERAL RULES
1.1. The Code of Conduct applies to all of your conduct as a forum user, in particular to all of the User Generated Content you send to the forum such as posts and the content you post via your profile (like your profile picture or bio).
1.2. Always treat others with kindness and respect, even if you don’t agree with them.
1.3. Stay on topic, don’t intentionally derail the discussion, don’t troll, and don’t spam.
1.4. Use appropriate language, and refrain from using swear words.
1.5. Do not insult or offend others.
WE DON’T TOLERATE:
2.1. Posting content that is illegal or engaging in illegal activities;
2.2. Encouragement or promoting real-world violence, hate speech, intimidation, harassment, sexual, racial, or ethnic slurs, and discrimination;
2.3. Any kind of exploitation of minors;
2.4. Posting your own as well as other people’s personally identifiable information (i.e. name, address, email, phone number, place of work, etc.);
2.5. Posting links to phishing sites, malware, or spyware;
2.6. Impersonating staff, forum moderators or other users;
2.7. Spamming, bashing, flaming or trolling;
2.8. Any kind of encouragement towards self-harm, taking drugs or drinking alcohol;
2.9. Creating multiple accounts (f.ex. for ban evasion);
2.10. Re-posting closed, modified or deleted content;
2.11. Spreading misinformation, f.ex. by posting something that is knowingly false;
2.12. Forum thread bumping, hijacking or posting comments that are unrelated to the original topic and make it difficult for others to follow the discussion;
2.13. Posting pornography, inappropriate or offensive content, and NSFW content;
2.14. Threats of violence, harassment or privacy breach – even as a joke;
2.15. Using a third party’s intellectual property (f.ex. full or partial scans of articles, books, full transcriptions of articles, etc.) unless you have a right to do so;
2.16. Gambling and selling (including real-life or in-game trading), advertising, referrals, links to other stores, auctioning or engaging in any other commercial activities – unless specifically permitted;
2.17. Use of language that is abusive, vulgar, hateful, defamatory, obscene, profane, threatening, privacy-invasive, or law-violating;
2.18. Encouraging anyone to break these rules or any laws;
2.19. Political discussions
While the examples above are not comprehensive, they should give you an idea of what is not acceptable.
