Glass Forum Guidelines and Rules – Read before posting

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Member Expectations

All members are expected to be kind, helpful, and respectful. Assume the best of people and try to make things better. Beyond just seeking solutions, users are encouraged to help others. If they know the answer to someone else’s question, it is greatly appreciated that they offer assistance. This is by no means mandatory, and no one is compelled to help anyone else.

All users are required to follow moderator instructions. The guidelines below are not all encompassing as that is impossible. Moderators will regularly make requests for users to change behavior that is borderline violations, in order to steer them right.

Guideline violations will result in posting access being restricted by first being flagged for moderation. This will require a moderator to approve a user’s posts. This restriction is meant to be temporary, and will be lifted when the moderators feel the situation has been resolved. If a user cannot follow the guidelines after that, their account will be blocked from posting. Further actions (such as restricting access to glassforum.org as a whole) can and will be applied if necessary.

Contacting the Moderators

If a post needs moderator attention, there is a ‘Report this topic’ link on every thread. That will add the post to a queue moderators watch and follow up with many times a day. It can often help if you also add a reply explaining what you need.

Do Not Spam

The forums and groups are here for providing users with a venue to get help with problems. In light of this, please refrain from using signatures, new topics, or responses to existing topics as a venue to promote your own plugins, themes or services. Your glassforum.org profile provides you the means to add a link to your own site if you so desire.

Do Not Bump Posts

Bumping a post to “the top” does not help a topic get noticed. The volunteers who try to answer questions look for those without replies first. If someone bumps a post, then it disappears from the ‘No Replies’ view.

We have a list of threads without replies. When a post is bumped, it becomes harder for it to be discovered and reduces the chances of getting appropriate help. Some forum helpers use that list to prioritize over other answered threads.

Moderators will delete bumps they find. This is in order to help posts get back into the No Replies listing, where they are more likely to get an answer.

Do Not Offer to Pay for Help

Any thread that offers any service for money can be closed at any time. We are not against paid services but these forums are not the right place for them. People may seek professional support but this not the right place.

Do Not Offer to Work for Hire

Don’t offer to work for hire in replies on these forums. Help on the forums should be given freely.

Do Not Post About Commercial Products

Do not post any content that promotes or advertises commercial products or services. This includes direct marketing messages, affiliate links, and product endorsements. If you would like to promote a product, reach out to the moderators to discuss advertising opportunities.

Do Not Create Multiple Accounts

Do not create multiple accounts, multiple accounts is often used for nefarious reasons, and as such we ask that you simply don’t do it. If multiple account is identified, it will be banned immediately.

When Creating Links to Other Resources

Do not posy public links. Links may come and go, websites change, URLs change, this all could mean that someone looking for an answer in the future ends up on a topic that only has links to a website no longer running, or to a site now owned by someone else with different content from what is expected.

Most support related websites have guidelines asking users to post their answers in full, instead of linking to different places, and this is why.

By sharing the information on glassforum.org, you ensure that it is kept available for all glassforum.org members.

The Bad Stuff…

We need to keep the forums friendly, so, occasionally, topic content will be moderated. In severe cases, users may be blocked. This might mean anything from the light editing of some posts to complete removal of topics and deactivation of accounts. It should really go without saying, but the following are likely candidates for moderation or intervention

• Do not post email addresses, ask others to post their email or solicit contacting people off of the forums.
• Do not post, offer, or ask for login information,
• Do not post another person’s private information (job, gender, living situation, location, etc).
• Do not harass or abuse people.
• Do not abuse the ‘Report this topic’ system.
• Do not post spam and affiliate links, offensive posts, posts without content, or flames.
• Do not post in all caps.
• Do not disregard/ignore direct communication from forum moderators.
• Do not seek legal advice on the forums.
• Do not threaten lawsuits or any other legal action on the forums.

Please note that this list is not exhaustive. Every post is judged on its own merits.