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The following rules apply to all user-submitted kineme.net content, whether posted on the forums or elsewhere on the site.

Rules

  • Be respectful — incitement, sarcasm, griefing, trolling, slander, and other ad hominem personal attacks are not permitted. You have the right to equal treatment, regardless of your age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, medical history, physical appearance, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, religion, or favorite text editor.
  • Be scientific — perform tests, make observations, use logic. Cite your sources. Avoid hearsay.
  • Be legal — since kineme.net's servers are located in the United States, content must comply with United States law.
  • Search before you post.
  • Keep forum threads on-topic — if you want to discuss another topic, start another forum post. Support threads aren't the place for intense debate as it makes it more difficult to respond, find, and read solutions.
  • Post only your own content or content you have permission to distribute. Don't impersonate.
  • Don't spam.
  • Don't cross-post.
  • Don't rewrite history — you do not have permission to modify a post after someone has replied to it.

Breaking the Rules

We, the kineme.net Moderators, try to keep an eye on things, but we might not see everything or read things the same way you do. Let us know if we've missed anything.

We'll warn you if you break the rules. Your offending posts may be removed or modified by a kineme.net moderator — if we make an edit, we'll leave a note indicating the post has been edited.

If, after being warned, you persist in breaking the rules, your account may be blocked.

Examples

Acceptable Content

  • "I'm getting an error/crash when I try to do this in this context. How can I fix it?"
  • "I like/dislike the aesthetic style of this, because..."
  • "This is technically incorrect, because..."
  • "This is the way I like to do it, because..."

Unacceptable Content

  • "You just don't know what you're talking about." — violates the "Be respectful" rule. Criticize the argument, not the person.
  • "It's better to do it this way." — violates the "Be scientific" rule. How can independent third-parties verify your claim?
  • "Besides the bug you mentioned, I noticed these other bugs, too." — violates the "Keep forum threads on-topic" rule. Please post a new bug report or support request instead.

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franz's picture
Re: Community Rules

thx. as a sidenote, I found this extremely valuable: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

dust's picture
Re: Community Rules

good one franz. i think vade posted that link before, as i have read that faq before and there are some really good points made there that i am sure i have violated before. i find this site funny in reference to a STFW forum reply.

http://bit.ly/tNYADW

i haven't actually ever got this link in a response before but clicked on it one day thinking it was going to give me the answer i was searching for. although comical, and possibly necessarily harsh it does however defiantly make a valid point.

i would say i do not particularly obey all authority posed upon me either overtly or subvertly by the powers that rule world right now. however i do think a mutual community respect and guideline is a wonderful idea and i can not help to think that i might have spawned this sort of moderated action by kineme. i'm pretty sure i have been the first person to receive a warning on kineme. so if you are the type of person that is strictly opposed to rules i must apologize to you, to any parties i have ever offended and to the community as whole. i would say rules are meant to be broken and even though there probably hasn't ever been a rule that has not been broken, rules are a necessary component to any community. particularly if you want the community to thrive and positively progress.

so cudos to community rules. this is a wonderful open community even if there are rules now. lol

usefuldesign.au's picture
Re: Community Rules

"dust" wrote:
i would say rules are meant to be broken and even though there probably hasn't ever been a rule that has not been broken, rules are a necessary component to any community.
I think it was Foulcout who said 'You can break the law but you can't break the rules'. If I remember him correctly I guess he was referring to man made systems of exchange and authority. I would turn it on it's head and say 'you can break all the rules but you can't break the law — Natural Law the universal truth that as you sow, so you shall reap'. Time frames for observances of this truth may be minutes, days, years, lifetimes, world cycles (big-bangs) or anything I left out. It operates on planes of existence we are not even aware of, but beings from those other places tells us it's just as true there too ;-)

If Foulcout said it the other way like I'm saying it, apologies to his loved ones. Either way I'm just repeating others much more wise than me.

gtoledo3's picture
Re: Community Rules

franz wrote:
thx. as a sidenote, I found this extremely valuable: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

I really like that, but I'm not sure it jives with the rules here :-) Maybe?

cybero's picture
Re: Community Rules

I think catb.org's smart-questions guide is somewhat pertinent in a generic fashion to almost any software product and / or coding forum. Of course, one should refer directly to the stated rules of whichever forum one is posting to.

usefuldesign.au's picture
Re: Community Rules

Thank-you. Good start for a new era of mutual respect.