These are the rules for the Freeway forums. Please read them and become familiar with them before you post.
Forum rules
1. Please use your real name when registering. We want the forums to be a place for people to build relationships and that is better done with real names.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Members are asked to not act as "back seat moderators". If members note an issue which contravenes something in this policy document, please bring it to the attention of a moderator. Members who consistently "act" as moderators may be warned.
5. Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience comprising of members from a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds. Posting offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to banning.
6. Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc.
7. 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.
8. Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". Users should not SHOUT or use excessive punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts. Users consistently abusing this will be banned.
9. 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.
10. Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. This includes offering hosting services (charged and free), installation services, solicitation, personal promotion etc. Recruiting of any sort, be it for paid or unpaid jobs, is not permitted either. Users posting spam will be banned and their post removed. See specific item on spam and 3rd party linking for more information.
11. Members are asked to not disclose to any 3rd party, board, or list any vulnerabilities in freeway before first notifying the developers. You should submit all finds to our Bug Tracker. Time should be allowed, at least 3 days for osCommRes to respond.
12. The moderating, support and other teams 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 moderators and not users.
13. 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.
Signatures
1. Signatures may contain up to five lines (one line being that displayed on a browser opened to 800px width) of text (of small or normal size) and/or one image, valid combinations include; a single image of no more than 60px high, 468px wide and 6kB (6000 Bytes) in size. Signatures containing an image this large may also include one line of small size text. Signatures containing an image of 30px high may include up to three lines of small size text or two lines of normal size text. Images of 15px height or less may allow up to three lines of normal size text or four lines of small size text. Animated images are not allowed.
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. Users abusing these rules will be banned.
Avatars
Avatars are restricted in size and content to a maximum dimension of 80x80 pixels and a total file size of 6Kb. As with all content but particularly in relation to Avatars, members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience comprising of memebers from a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds. Posting offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to banning.
Forums Purpose
1. These forums exists to provide help to users of Freeway. They are not a substitute for the services of a competent and well experienced Freeway service provider.
2. Members who have others install Freeway for them should firstly direct support requests to that person/company. We always recommend purchasing an Freeway support subscription from an Approved Service Provider.
3. The support forums are not to be used to ask questions on MySQL, Apache, Linux, etc. Questions regarding the applications Freeway requires should be directed to the support site of the relevant software.
4. 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 banned.
5. Members should note this software and board are maintained as a goodwill measure by Freeway. Users should therefore not post demanding support, bug fixes, etc. Users who disrespect the work of team members will be banned.
Policing
1. Users who feel they have been unfairly banned are welcome to request a reconsideration by the
webmaster@openfreeway.org
2. 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.
3. Permanent bans are a last resort and thought is given before implementing them. While openfreeway.org may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time this is a rare occurence.