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 mailing list 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.
- You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful,
threatening, sexually-orientated material or any other material that may
violate any applicable laws. Doing any of these may lead to 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.
- 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.
- 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 code of conduct, 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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