Board-wide Policies

This document is designed to clarify various responsibilities of community members here at forum.digitax-uk.com. Please read it and become familiar with it.

1. Forum Rules
   1. Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting. Users consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning (see policing below).
   2. Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.
   3. Members are asked to not act as "back seat moderators". If members note an issue which contravenes something in this policy document they are welcome to bring it to the attention of the Management. Use the button to report a post. Only do this if the Management has not replied within 12 hours. Do not respond to such topics yourself. Members who consistently "act" as moderators may be warned.
   4. Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.
   5. Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Users linking to or asking for information on warez, crackz, etc. or re-printing material without permission will receive a warning and their post will be removed.
   6. Members should respect the bandwidth of other users and sites. The use of inline ([IMG][/IMG]) image tags pointing to data stored on third party systems for which the user has not received permission to link to may be removed.
   7. Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". That is users should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or coloured text, etc. Similarly users should not SHOUT or use excessive punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts. Users consistently abusing this will be warned.
   8. Members should use an appropriate, descriptive title when posting a new topic. Examples of bad titles include; "Help me!", "I'm stuck!", "I've got an error!", etc. Examples of good titles include; "Getting an TABLE FULL error upon login", "Cannot restore a backup", etc.
   9. Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. This includes offering hosting services (charged and free), installation services, etc. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed. See specific item on spam and 3rd party linking for more information.
   10. The Management reserve the right to edit or remove any post at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these points is up to the Management and not users.
   11. The above forum rules where applicable also apply to private messaging. Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings (as above) and/or the revocation of private messaging.
   
   
   
2. Signatures
   1. Signatures may contain up to 255 characters.
   2. Text sizes should be between 9 and 12 (small and normal). Text in signatures is subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, warez, emoticons, and so forth.
   3. Links in signatures are permitted to a maximum of four unique pages or sites. The Management are allowed additional links to aid in rendering support for Digitax UK. Such links may only be to approved material. Linked sites may be commercial in nature. You may not include links in a way which suggests you offer official support, software, etc. for Digitax Electronics UK Ltd. You may not link to warez, porn or political, racist or other similar hate sites. Links are included in signature size limits.
   4. Users abusing these rules will be warned.
   
   
   
3. Avatars
   1. Users are permitted to upload an avatar or to link to one of their own (subject to previous points on misuse of bandwidth). User defined avatars are to be no larger than 80 pixels square, contain no animation, contain no image which attempts to portray the user as having an official status here (e.g. mimicking ranks or copying avatars of team members), may not exceed 6kB (6000 Bytes) in file size and have a consistently high availability (i.e. links to images on slow servers or those prone to failure may be removed).
   2. Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, and so forth.
   3. Users abusing these rules will be warned and/or may lose their avatar privileges.
   
   
   
4. Support for Digitax products
   1. forum.digitax-uk.com exists to support Digitax Products. No support will be given/allowed for other products. Users of other products should seek support elsewhere.
   2. Before posting a question users are asked to try and solve the issue themselves.
   3. Before posting a question users are asked to search the forum in case it has already been answered.
   4. Users who persistently ask questions without showing any desire to help themselves should expect to receive at best a delayed response and at worst no response at all.
   5. When posting a support question bumping is permitted only after six hours have elapsed since the last post to that topic. Users who abuse this will be warned.
   6. Members should note this board are maintained on a voluntary basis. Users should therefore not post demanding support, bug fixes, etc. Users who disrespect the work of other members will be warned.
   7. Members are reminded if they have an urgent problem to contact Digitax Electronics UK directly.
   
   
   
5. Show Off
   1. Digitax UK does not provide a general fora or other solution for users to promote their businesses. Consistent with these Rules users may not promote their businesses through their own posts. Such posting constitutes spam and may lead to a warning.
   
   
   
6. Policing
   1. Digitax UK operates a three strike policy. Users will be warned a maximum of three times for any and all offences in a three month period. If the need arises for a fourth warning a temporary ban will be put in place of between 1 to 7 days.
   2. Arguing with the Management after having received a warning will lead to an immediate additional warning. Should this exceed three strikes a temporary ban will be put in place as above.
   3. Users who feel they have been unfairly warned are welcome to contact the Forum Administrator. If they feel you were treated badly they will remove a warning. If you feel their decision is also unfair ,tough their decision is final. Contacting the Management over warning matters should be done so as a very last resort ... the Management do not want to be bothered unless vital.
   4. Any attempt to circumvent a temporary ban will lead to that ban being made permanent. Circumvention includes re-registering under a non-banned username, changing IP addresses to evade an IP ban, registering a new email account of evade an email ban. Circumvention includes posting as an anonymous user.
   5. An exception to the three strike rule applies when users contact the Management personally (via any method) and post insulting, indecent or vulgar material. Such users may be subject to an immediate permanent ban.
   6. Permanent bans are a last resort and thought is given before implementing them. While Digitax UK may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time this is a rare occurrence.