MacTalk Rules
- Treat others with the same respect and dignity that you would treat people you know in person.
- Extend your respect to the whole community by making quality posts and threads after
carefully searching the forums, keeping the community's standards high and the feeling
positive and helpful.
- Take your MacTalk experience in a positive light, even when people are negative and unhelpful.
Other than the above (and the Trading Forum rules) we don't believe that forums should have rules, as we reckon that people don't
need instructions on how to behave towards each other, so common-sense and common-decency rules apply. However, since that isn't always obvious enough for some, here is a list of things that, over time, we've decided are:
Specifically not permitted:
- Only one account per person and one person using an account are permitted. This includes banned accounts! Bugmenot accounts are not permitted.
- Abusive or inflammatory messages, whether in posts or PM's. This breaks rule #1.
- Pointless and unnecessary posts. This breaks rule #2, make it harder for people to get good advice in the forums, and will be deleted.
- Posting to get your post count up. This breaks rule #2 and it's very obvious. We'll happily reset your post count to zero and/or put you on moderation too.
- Posting twice in a row. Please click on the circle on the right of the Quote button next to each post and then hit Add Reply if you want to reply to more than one post.
- Posting another thread on the same topic. Eg: cross-posting in different forums, for example or starting a new thread when you had one before. Use your existing thread instead. Especially if you're asking for help, it's very hard for people to keep track of multiple threads on the same issue.
- Pornographic, racist or any other derogatory material (like you need to be told that). If you want to discuss controversial topics in the Orange Sofa, you can, but be polite. If it's making you angry, just don't read it. More than one person has been banned multiple times for getting riled up and posting abuse in Orange Sofa topics. Don't be next.
- Advertising, selling or self-promotion of any kind, whether it be eBay sales, your new web site, your software or your business. If you've signed up just to get traffic to your site or sale, you can go elsewhere.
- Group buys. It sounds like a great idea at the time, but the amount of hassle is 100x greater than you think. See if a business is interested in arranging it instead.
- Warez discussion. Ie: How to get software or serial numbers illegitimately.
- Free iPod/Free Mac referral schemes. They don't work.
- Hackintosh/OSX86 discussion. They don't work either and involve warez.
- Ignoring the express wishes or requests of moderators or admins. We are very nice people and always happy to help, but likewise are also intolerant of bad attitude.
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