Community Guidelines
This is a community of designers, developers, webmasters, shop owners, exeperienced
and inexperienced people. Please remember that everyone here, regardless of
background or experience level, deserves fair and respectful treatment. Be courteous
and friendly and everyone will have a better experience.
Remember that as an active member of this site, you shape the tone, content
and overall experience. Treat this site as your own, striving to maintain high
standards for yourself and others.
Republishing your posts
We will occasionally republish threads and posts throughout our site. We do
this to draw attention to useful information for other osCMax visitors. When
we re-publish forum posts, we reserve the right to quote your discussion in
newsletters, email and throughout our network. You will be identified in any
republished works by your osCMax forums username only.
Reporting problems
If you locate a violation of the following guidelines, you can report it to
us by clicking the 'Report Post' icont link in the upper right corner of every
post. If you encounter any other problem with this site, please contact us immediately
by using our osCMax contact
form .
General Guidelines
- Welcome new members : osCMax is a special community and
it has become that way due to the friendly nature of our members. Be sure
to go out of your way to make new members feel welcome. Joining a large technical
community can be very intimidating for new members. Make sure you welcome
them as you were welcomed.
- No Personal Attacks : Do not post any personal attacks
in the forums. They are not allowed and your post will be deleted without
notice, and you risk being banned from the community. Attacking others in
a public forum is not the way adults communicate, and as we are a community
of adults, we do not allow it.
- One account per person : Please do not sign up for more
than one account. If we find you have signed up for multiple accounts, only
the oldest account will be kept, and you run the risk of being banned from
the community.
- Personal Information : Before posting, note that your post
will appear on our public forum and will be indexed and listed by the major
search engines. This means it will become public knowledge. Keep your personal
information private and do not post anything that is sensitive or should not
be public.
- Cross Posting/Duplicate Posts : Do not post the same topic
more than once, in more than one forum. Duplicate discussions are frustrating
for others, and make finding the actual discussion difficult. Multiple cross
posting is considered spam, and can get you banned.
- Language Usage : Do not use profanity, do not link to adults
only material or use adults only avatars or images on this site. Your post
will be removed or edited to clean it up. Again, this type of posting can
result in getting banned from the site.
- Advertising : osCMax has a strict No Advertising
policy. Linking to your own sites or affiliate sites in your posts is considered
advertising and self promotion. This could result in your membership being
removed. At the very least, your post will be deleted or edited to remove
the advertising. The only exception to this policy is in your Member Signature
or designated areas of the site that allow advertising. This rule includes work requests.
- Content from other sites : Do not post content from other
sites. This is most likely a violation of the originating site's copyright.
Simply link to the content to avoid any copyright infringement.
- Private Messages : Use the same guidelines when sending
a Private Message to another community member. No advertising or spam is allowed.
Harrassment or advertising via the PM system is strcitly prohibited and will
result in your account being suspended or deleted. To report unwanted or abusive
PM behavior, use our osCMax
contact form .
- Old Threads : Do not reply to threads that have been dormant
for more than four months. Create a new thread as your new post in that old
thread will be moved and an infraction will be charged against you.
osCMax.com reserves the right to remove, modify or otherwise alter any post
or thread on our site, regardless or content or authorship. All instances of
such modification are at the sole discretion of osCMax.com and its agents. osCMax.com
and its agents also reserve the right to remove or suspend all or part of any
users membership should they violate any of these guidelines.
