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Information for New Members

If you are a new member here, there are several resources which you should read before you start to use this forum to its full potential:

and of course, do not forget to read our rules.

If you are a FreeBSD developer (comitter) with commit access since before 10/2008 your account has been automatically created according to your login on freefall (e.g. username@). Usernames ending with @-character are reserved for FreeBSD developers only. If you are here for the first time, your password is currently not available. In order to be able to use your account, please use the password reset form and submit your FreeBSD.org email. Then, you will receive a new password to your email.
If you are a new comitter and would like to have your special username here, please contact the forum staff and we will create it for you.

FreeBSD Forums Rules

This section contains general FreeBSD Forums rules which should be followed by all members in order to keep the quality of these forums on a high level.

Though many of the FreeBSD development members read this forum, we cannot always guarantee that we will get to your questions in a timely fashion (or at all) if you post them only to one of the forums available here. FreeBSD mailing lists and comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.* groups are currently the mainstream place to ask your questions with a lot of subscribed users. Please note, that by addressing your questions to the appropriate forum you will reach both us and a concentrated FreeBSD audience, invariably assuring a better (or at least faster) response.

Please keep focus on the actual topic. Most of our forum members receive many hundreds of FreeBSD related messages every day, and by obeying the rules of proper use we are striving to keep the signal-to-noise ratio of the forums high. To do less would see the forums ultimately fail as an effective communications medium for the project.

Before posting to any forum, please learn about how to best use the forums, such as how to help avoid frequently-repeated discussions, by reading their contents. Searching the forum is a quick way to see if someone has had your issue and if it has been answered. Forums can be searched within the Search page of this forum.

Most of the forums are technical: they are for technical discussion. You should read the description for each forum carefully before joining or posting to one as there are firm guidelines for their use and content.

All FreeBSD forums have certain basic rules which must be adhered to by anyone using them. Failure to comply with these guidelines will result in two (2) written warnings from the FreeBSD Forum moderators (forum-moderators@FreeBSD.org), after which, on a third offense, the poster will be removed from all FreeBSD forums and filtered from further posting to them. We regret that such rules and measures are necessary at all, but today's Internet is a pretty harsh environment, it would seem, and many fail to appreciate just how fragile some of its mechanisms are.

If you have any technical problems, please contact forum-admins@FreeBSD.org and provide all the relevant information that might help us in resolving your problem. Be aware that this is not a place for requests related to moderation and these will be ignored here.

Rules of the road:

We currently do no have enough resources to moderate international discussions, thus we support only English topics. Please do not use any other language, as this will result in the topic deletion/lockdown. This rule will probably change in the future, however untill then please respect it.
Be respectful of all users at all times and respect the forum staff. This means please use etiquette and politeness. Treat people with kindness and gentleness. Be considerate to the person asking the question. We were all a green user at one point. Yes, some users are harder to help than others, but please be respectful to all users.
When in doubt about what forum to post a question to, post it to the General forum.
The topic of any posting should adhere to the basics of the forum it is posted to, e.g. if the forum is about technical issues then your posting should contain technical discussion. Ongoing irrelevant chatter or flaming only detracts from the value of the forums for everyone on it and will not be tolerated. For free-form discussion on no particular topic, the Off-Topic forum is freely available and should be used instead.
No posting should be made to more than 1 forum. Ever. For most forums, there is already a great deal of members overlap and except for the most esoteric mixes, there really is no reason to post to more than one forum at a time.
The FreeBSD forums aim to build and maintain a friendly and co-operative user community. As such, you agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, political, religious, threatening, sexually-orientated or otherwise divisive or combative material, or anything that may violate any applicable laws. Such posts will be removed without any warning and attemtps to introduce material of this nature can lead to an infraction or you being temporarily or permanently banned from these forums.
Personal attacks and profanity (in the context of an argument) are not allowed, and that includes users and developers like. Gross breaches of netiquette, like excerpting or reposting private mail when permission to do so was not and would not be forthcoming, are frowned upon but not specifically enforced. However, there are also very few cases where such content would fit within the charter of a forum and it would therefore probably rate a warning (or ban) on that basis alone.
The FreeBSD Forums are not an advertising billboard or a "Search Engine Optimization" (SEO) tool. If we find that you use your profile (including signatures and messages) or any other part of the forums to promote websites other than your own personal homepage or weblog, your account will be banned on sight. Advertising of non-FreeBSD related products or services is strictly prohibited and will result in an immediate ban if it is clear that the offender is advertising by spam. See also Important notice regarding 'SEO' activity.
Users are allowed to have only one active account. If you feel you have justification for requiring a new account, please contact an administrator to discuss your situation. Users who have multiple accounts without approval of an administrator may be subjected to infractions or bans without notice.
If you have found a post that you feel is inappropriate or that violates the forum rules, please use the report post function ( button). Do not attempt to moderate discussions or correct other users yourself. Also please do not post "spam reported" messages into the affected threads as these do not add any information value neither they will speed the removal of affected posts and they only add another "spammy" tone.
If you consider some post to be useful and you would like to express your appreciation, please do not post "Thank you"-like messages. Instead use the button.

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