Community Forum Rules, General Posting Guidelines and Forum Moderation Policies
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These rules are applied across any forum made and managed by the Pins team. Please read them before doing any activity and if in doubt, ask us any questions in the Meta category.
Forum Rules
No Spam / Advertising / Self-promote in the forums
These forums define spam as unsolicited advertisement for goods, services, and/or other web sites, or posts with little, or completely unrelated content. Do not spam the forums with links to your site or product, or try to self-promote your website, business or forums, etc.
Spamming also includes sending private messages to a large number of different users.
DO NOT ASK for email addresses or phone numbers
Your account will be banned permanently and your posts will be deleted.
Do not post copyright-infringing material
Providing or asking for information on how to illegally obtain copyrighted materials is forbidden.
General Posting Guidelines
Before you post, please read these posting guidelines before you publicize your new post to the whole Internet.
Search before yeeting
We hate duplicates and repeated questions, so please search around the forum and if there's it, please reply instead to the existing ones.
General Forum Rules FAQ
Before asking us any questions in the Meta section of any of our forums about these rules, please consult these FAQs below.
Am I allowed more than one account?
No, there is no reason why you should have more than one account at our forums, and using any of alternative accounts is considered ban evasion. If you're banned, please don't create a new one, otherwise, we'll place your IP address on the ban list.
What happened when I break a rule?
If you break a rule, then we'll either warn you, temporarily or permanently ban you, or implement a "shadowban" (a.k.a hiding your posts from the public).
The administrators and moderators also have the right to edit, delete, move or close any thread or post as they see necessary, without prior warning. When we do these, we'll notify everyone in our Transparency Logs in Telegram.
What happened if my account (or my IP address) was banned/suspended?
In account suspensions: You'll be never log in to the forums, and even create new accounts, if an IP ban was implemented on your account.
In account shadowbans: You'll still log in and join the discussion, but no one will see your activity unless they manually
When your account is SpamBlocked: You may experience both account suspension and shadowban, once our moderators flag you as a spammer.
Where do you adopt these rules?
We adopted these from OpenTuition, with some customizations for our forums.
If you have seen something/someone was violating these rules...
We're here to help and catch those rulebreakers. If you found one, use the Report option in the post's options or tag an team member or an forum moderator and we'll handle the rest.