Here’s the lay of the land.

• Read the forum guidelines before posting for the first time.
• Search the other posts to see if your topic has already been covered.
• Use a meaningful title for your thread.
• Do not use the forum to promote your product, service or business.
• Be civil. Personal differences should be handled in private, and not through posts displayed to everyone.
• Stay on topic.
• Report spammers. Do not respond to them personally or through the forum.
• Try to avoid submitting a post that requires readers to download large attachments. Either explain the attachment or, provide a link to the information.
• We are a writing community, so please try to use correct spelling, grammar and avoid slang unless you know the word or phrase will be understood by other members of our community.
• Do not double post (post the same message twice in one thread) or cross post (place the same message across several forums).
• Act in a give and take manner; help others as often as or more than you ask for help.
• Do not use all caps or SHOUT in your posts. In addition, one exclamation point is enough.
• When replying to a post, do not quote more from the previous post than you have to.
• Do not post new problems on someone else’s thread and interrupt a topic of discussion.
• Do not use someone else’s thread for a private conversation.
• Watch your sense of humor, posts may be read by people from a variety of backgrounds and ages.
• Do not post any information that you want private. Posts should not contain personal, identifiable information or content embarrassing to others.
• Do not post content that violates a copyright.
• Do not post  empty  or useless responses, such as just  ‘lol’  or  ‘cool’.  Only post responses when you have something meaningful to contribute.
• Write concisely and do not ramble.
• Do not use words like  urgent  or  important  in your subject line, please be patient.
• Do not chastise newbies. Let us all try to be helpful and encouraging participants.  
• There will be no racial, ethnic, gender based insults or any other personal discriminations.  This will not be tolerated and can lead to immediate suspension.
• There will be no posts meant to offend or hurt any other member, in a manner which is offensive or inflammatory. This includes flaming or instigating arguments.
• No subject matter will be allowed whose purpose is to defeat existing copyright or security measures. If a user persists and/or the activity is obviously illegal the staff reserves the right to remove such content and/or ban the user. This would also mean encouraging the use or continued use of pirated software is not permitted, and subject to the same consequences.
• Linking to hate, anti-Semitic, racist, pornography, warez, or other illegal sites is not permitted.
• Do not use obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or excessively violent language.
• Do not harass, insult, taunt, provoke, demean, or personally attack other forum members. Be friendly even if others are not.
• Don’t post any sensitive information. Moderators will remove personal information from posts to protect your privacy.
• Users who post forum spam will have their posts removed. If a post that is otherwise appropriate includes links considered to be spam, those links will be removed.