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Engineers Edge is dedicated to developing and maintaining
a friendly online community, where members of all ages and
technical backgrounds feel relaxed and comfortable. Like any
community, Engineers Edge has certain standards. When members
join our forums, they agree to abide by these rules. To
remain a part of the Engineers Edge community, members must
be considerate to others. Repeated violations of these
standards may result in a member being barred from entry or
participation in community forums.
Member Names and Personal Information
While Engineers Edge does not prohibit the use of nicknames
on our forums, we strongly encourage members to include their
real first and last names with their registration
information. Please refrain from using offensive names and
never post a message under another person's name or
pretending to be another person. When posting a message to a
forum, your name is the only personal information that is
displayed. Your username and email address will never be
displayed publicly. However, you should always exercise
judgment when revealing personal information about yourself
when you post
messages in public forums. For more information, please read
Engineers Edge Privacy Policy.
Topics of Discussion
While these discussion boards encourage a wide range of
opinions, please keep your posts focused on the topic of the
forum in which you are submitting your message. Each forum
has a different topic (Design & Engineering forum, etc.),
so what is appropriate in one forum or thread may not be
appropriate in another. All queries are answered in the
forums and not answered by email, so that everyone can
benefit from the replies and its content.
Students
Students are not allowed to post academic questions which are intended to solve their homework or test problems on Engineers Edge forums. This is considered plagiarism by most academic institutions and Engineers Edge Management. Posts that are of academic homework or test nature may be removed from Engineers Edge and the posting member could lose their access privileges.
Inappropriate Language
The use of inappropriate or offensive language
is not permitted in these boards. Inappropriate or offensive
language includes, but is not limited to, any language or
content that is sexually oriented, sexually suggestive or
abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, profane,
hateful, or that contains racially, ethnically or otherwise
objectionable material of any kind. We ask that you please be
considerate to other members in the boards when posting your
messages.
Harassment and Flaming
Engineers Edge members are not permitted to
harass or "flame" other members. Please do not post
or transmit any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive,
harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, profane, hateful,
racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable material of
any kind, including, but not limited to, any material which
encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense,
violate the rights of others, or otherwise violate any
applicable local, state, national or international law.
Please note that this also includes the posting of taunts on
a forum solely for the purpose of deriding that forum's topic
and/or members.
Copyrighted or Trademarked Materials
It is illegal to post any content that is
copyrighted or trademarked, unless you hold the copyright or
trademark. Any material protected by copyright may not be
posted in the message boards without the expressed permission
of the author or owner of the copyright on that material.
This includes reproducing the full text of news stories,
articles, etc. It is acceptable to provide a link to
copyrighted material, to post brief excerpts, or to
paraphrase other works, though we do strongly encourage you
to cite the original source whenever possible.
Piracy or Unlawful Activities
This community forum is a place for ideas and
constructive participation, and not a place to violate any
laws or to discuss illegal activities. This type of activity
includes, but is not limited to, advocating or asking for
information regarding software piracy or unauthorized
emulators of software or hardware, sharing or distributing
viruses, licenses, registration information, software keys,
"cracks," or other information designed to do harm
to or allow unlawful access to any computer hardware,
software, networks, or any other systems. Please refrain from
posting this kind of message.
Posting Advertisements
This is a forum of ideas, so advertisements are not allowed
in this venue. A member may answer another member's question
about their occupation or business, however, blatant
advertising or solicitations of or for business is
prohibited. This includes, but not limited to, links to
products or services with which the poster is affiliated,
whether or not a fee is charged for the product or service. Postings for surveys will never be allowed and will be removed.
Spamming, in which a user posts the same message repeatedly,
is also prohibited. Pyramid schemes --chain letters that
involve money-- are not only prohibited by Engineers Edge
standards, but they're also illegal. It is permissible for
members to mention services or products that are provided by
them, as long as the information is germane to the topic, is
not a blatant advertisement, and the members mention their
affiliation with the product in the content of the message.
Posting Images
Forum members may be allowed to embed images in
their messages by linking to an image that exists on another
site. In addition to the copyright restrictions mentioned
above, users should also refrain from embedding any images of
a sexual or offensive nature. If you are uncertain is an
image is acceptable or not, please just post a link to the
image with a warning that it goes to a page that some may
find offensive. Any links to clearly offensive or
pornographic materials will be removed immediately at the
moderator's discretion.
Posting Links
Our policy on linking to other forums is pretty
simple. Members may provide a link to any other site that
provides information that helps answer another member's
question or is just of general interest to members of that
particular forum. One of the most basic tenets of the Web is
the open exchange of information, and the Engineers Edge
forum managers wholeheartedly support this type of exchange.
The only type of linking (besides porn and spam, of course)
that will not be allowed on our site is when members solicit
people to leave our site and join a competing service. That's
just common sense. We won't allow people to use our site to
promote a competing service any more than a brick- and-mortar
store would allow his competitor to paste flyers all over his
walls. However, people are always welcome to link to any
online resource, whether it's on our site or any other site,
in order to share useful information with fellow members.
Other General Rules of Conduct
You shall not post on these forums any Content
which (a) is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic,
abusive, harassing or threatening, (b) contains viruses or
other contaminating or destructive features, (c) violates the
rights of others, such as Content which infringes any
copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or violates any
right of privacy or publicity, or (d) otherwise violates any
applicable law. You may not post on these forums any links to
any external Internet sites that are obscene or pornographic.
You shall not use these forums for any commercial purpose, to
distribute any advertising or solicitation of funds or goods
and services or to solicit users to join competitive online
services.
Banning
Engineers Edge reserves the right at its sole
discretion to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to
any part of these forums, parts of or the entire Engineers
Edge network. If you violate any of the rules stated in this
document or any other service terms documents, a moderator
will remove the offending message and may or may not send you
a note letting you know why the message was removed and
requesting that you adhere to the forum policies. It is your
responsibility to maintain a current, valid email address in
your registration information so that our moderators can
contact you in the event of a policy violation. Any member
who violates our policies will be denied access to these
forums, whether or not they were able to receive a message
from a moderator stating the nature of
the violation. Managing User Content Members of these forums
are solely responsible for all Content that they post on our
site. Engineers Edge shall have the right, but not the
obligation, to correct any errors or omissions in any
Content, as it may determine in its sole discretion.
Engineers Edge further reserve the right, in their sole
discretion, to delete or remove any user content from the
site and to deny the access of any member to all part of this
site, at any time for any reason without prior notice or
liability. However, we obviously don't want to do that, and
this requires about a minute of the moderators time, so just
follow the rules, okay?
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