The primary purpose of this forum is for four reasons.
The forum is divided into four sections.
This forum is moderated by a handful of individuals, which include the development team and members of the meebo community who have been chosen to be moderators. Should you have any questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to direct them to a moderator. To prevent flaming and trolling, such difficulties should not be posted in the open forum.
each forum goer is expected to abide by a certain degree of “nettiquette”
Each user is expected to know these rules. Ignorance of these rules is not an excuse for not following them.
Please post in the appropriate forum. Each is properly labeled, and is further described above.
Users are expected to respect each other’s cultures. Meebo users are ALL over the world, and while we do hope, because the majority of supporting users speak English, that an attempt will be made to make the language barrier as easy to jump as possible, users are expected to not look down on or discourage other users because of language\geographic\cultural differences.
Users are allowed to express their beliefs, but users are also expected to respect the beliefs of others. Debates are allowed so long as all involved parties are still comfortable and no one's rights are being infringed.
Users are allowed to express their beliefs, but users are also expected to respect the beliefs of others. Debates are allowed so long as all involved parties are still comfortable and no one's rights are being infringed.
Users are expected to maintain a level of linguistic decency. I.E. No/little swearing, please.
Users are expected to receive constructive criticism openly in all areas of the forum.
The “bumping” of old threads simply to bring them to the top of the forum is not permitted.
The posting twice in a row is not permitted. You are freely allowed to edit your post as much as you want on any non-locked thread. If no one else has posted yet, your edits are not in any way reflected in the post itself, meaning it won't say “Last edited by so-and-so at da-ta-da on the 4th of Febtober”.
Advertisement of sites for which you have a commercial, personal, or other interest in are not permitted. Discussions of the usage of certain sites are allowed. For example “Does anyone else like snarfu.com?” would be permitted, whereas “Check out snarfu.com” would not. Computer generated posts are not permitted. [Of course, if you're a computer, you're not reading this anyway.] Pornographic and obscene material are not permitted. Flaming (personal attacks) are not permitted. Trolling (specifically “pushing someone's buttons”, especially to drive them to break forum rules) is not permitted.
When posting a new topic, please ensure that the topic description is just that - descriptive. For example, “A Couple Questions” is a BAD thread title, whereas “Images on page not showing up” is better. Essentially, just state the main keywords of your post. It usually helps to compose your post first, and then derive a subject.
If you're having serious personal problems, we're sorry, but we have to ask you to please keep them off the forum. There are much better outlets for this and frankly, posting here probably won't do much good. We certainly want you to be able to make friends and to feel welcome here, but please understand that any attention you might get from posting cries for help here won't do anything to help you get better. Online friends are great, but they can't always be there for you the way people in your real life can. We're not saying you can't post about things like “my grandmother died today and I'm really upset” or things like that. We want you to make friends here and be able to share what's on your mind. However, “cry for help” posts like “I'm so depressed, I'm going to kill myself tonight if I don't get any replies to this thread” and things in that dramatic vein aren't what we have in mind.
We don't promote hate here. Racism, homophobia, attacks against other forum members (specific or in general) and the like will not be tolerated, and will be dealt with harshly.
With any rules, there are consequences if such rules are not followed. It's not that we WANT to punish anyone, but in reality, break the rules and you're really punishing yourself. The TYPICAL situation would follow such as…
The offender would receive a warning, with an explanation of what they did wrong, why it was wrong, what the moderator changed (if anything), and how to avoid the problem in the future.
If it is deemed the offender did not recognize the importance stressed by the moderator with the first warning, another warning may be issued. However, it is very likely (especially depending on the severity of the offence) that the offender may be temporarily banned from the forums.
If the offender continues to break the rules, he or she may receive another temporary ban or a permanent ban. All permanent bans will be thoroughly discussed before being enacted.
The moderating staff reserves the right to skip or repeat stages of discipline, as deemed appropriate or necessary.
To cover other things
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This FAQ was adapted from ones found at zanthria, which itself is a derivative work of other works listed therein.