Forum Rules

Summary:

forum.diyaudiocart.com is a place for all members of the DIY audio community to learn, share knowledge, and enjoy interacting with others interested in the design and construction of audio components. This privately owned forum reserves the right to limit the behavior of its members. The rules will be enforced in good faith that you abide the following rules and guidelines when viewing, posting or replying to messages in the forum.

1. Insulting, intimidating, bullying, harassing or other disrespectful or antisocial behavior.
2. Disruptive behavior of any sort, including Trolling and Thread jacking. (Note 1)
3. Intentionally posting incorrect or flagrantly dangerous information (Note 2) or misquoting other's posts.
4. Offensive language. (Note 3)
5. Posting or linking to pornography, illegal download sites, or illegal software.
6. Posting private correspondence on the forums without expressed permission of the author.
7. More than one account or multiple registrations.
8. Discussing topics unrelated to audio or electronics unless in a designated off-topic area.
9. Discussions of politics, ethnicity, religion, or other divisive issues in any area.
10. Posting in a language other than English without a translation.
11. Posting overtly commercial information or advertising in non-commercial forums. (Note 4)
12. Posts concerning moderator's directives or decisions, and reporting or reposting of such actions.
13. Posts containing copyrighted material without permission of the copyright holder.
14. If any member makes any accusations about any retailer/manufacturer/distributor/dealer or individual member, they must first submit a verified/certified photo identity proof of their full name and address to forums admin along with verified/certified proof of the accusation. It's easy to exaggerate the events to favour your side of the story, but ultimately this is not the truth if you cannot backup your accusations without proof. Posting any such information without relevant proof will lead to your immediate ban without any warning.
15. Posting your thread or subject in more than one forum.
16. Using the private messaging system or email to make unsolicited commercial advances or violate the rules.
17. Posting in CAPITAL letters.
18. You are not allowed to conduct any discussion whatsoever soliciting, exchange, modifying or sharing or renting using firmware/hacks/torrents/seeding, etc of illegal and/or copyright material of any nature including eBooks, music, movies, software programs, etc.
19. Posting personal information without that person's consent.
20. Repeated use of the Quote function when you are the following poster.
21. No personal attacks on any member will be entertained. This includes any direct / indirect attempt at trolling.
22. forum.diyaudiocart.com is a free open and public forum. All content posted by members will be visible to all. If you have security and/or privacy concerns then please do not register with us. Members request for their account/thread/post deletion or closure will not be entertained for any reason or in any way whatsoever. Please consider all privacy and/or security concerns that you may have before opening an account with us.
23. Your account is yours alone. You are responsible for any activity created with it. You may not share your account login with anyone. If you choose to ignore this important restriction your account, and any accounts associated with it, will be disabled.
24. All publicly displayed messages are limited to the English language. This includes posts, titles, signatures, and any attachments or other forms of public display.
25. You may not post words or URLs that are censored by adding spaces, dots, or substituting characters; or by any other means in an attempt to defeat any censors put in place by forum.diyaudiocart.com. Please contact us if you feel a word or URL is unjustly censored.
26. Please title threads accurately in order to represent the subject matter that they contain.

Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way. We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules, as access to our forums are a privilege and not a right. Nonobservance of the above-mentioned rules will lead to an immediate warning, an infraction and deletion of the concerned post. Repeated offenses will lead to the member being permanently banned from forum.diyaudiocart.com!

If you feel that a member of this forums has violated any of the above mentioned rules and would like to bring that thread or post to our attention, then please click on the Report Post icon () at the top right hand corner of every post or Contact Us.

Content Copyright:

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These rules are subject to change as and when needed. Any changes thus made, will be updated here along with a revision date. It's the member's responsibility to keep a check on the rules and guideline changes from time to time.


Last Updated: 15-Dec-2015