Forum Rules


This document is designed to clarify various responsibilities of community members here at www.scrfix.com. Please read it and become familiar with it, its terms are retroactive and agreed by team and group members. All postings on this public forum will become public. All text will be available to anyone with an internet connection adults and children alike. Please ensure it stays clean. Thank You - SCR Staff


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  1. Summary of Forum Rules

    1. Act in an adult manner and be polite and courteous.

    2. Utilize common sense
      • Technicians: Nobody was born with a laptop or the knowledge that we possess. We all started out at the same place just like everyone else. There is no reason for rude or obnoxious remarks because someone does not understand something even if frustration starts to settle in.

      • End users: When requesting help please realize that a question may not be answered immediately as people also have to work, take care of families, etc.. We will attempt to answer any and all questions as best as we can with the descriptions that are provided.
        • Bad Title and Description: Title: HELP!!! Description: "My computer is broken, what do I do?" is not an acceptable description or title and chances are really good that question will not receive an answer, the title may be changed or the post may be removed.

        • Good Title and Description: Title: Computer will not boot into Windows. Description: "My computer will not go all the way into Windows and has a blue screen that comes up. The screen says IRQ_NOT_EQUAL_TO_OR_LESS at the top of it. What are the possible causes of that?" is a great way to start a post.
    3. Breaking the laws of the United States of America will result in warnings or IP ban and possible removal of all offending posts.
    4. The forum intentions are solely to help people and not advertise products or services. Offending users will be warned and posts removed.

  2. Detailed Forum Rules

    1. Members are permitted a maximum of one account, active or inactive, regardless of how many companies are represented. Disregarding this will result in a warning and all subsequent accounts to be disabled.
    2. Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Members are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting. Members consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning (see policing below).
    3. Members are required to read any individual forum rules which may be posted at the top of specific forums as important threads or announcements. Spectacular Computer Repair staff presumes members have read them. Ignorance of any rules as is not an acceptable reason for not following the rules, policies, and guidelines outlined in this these documents.
    4. 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 a member of the Moderator Team. Please use the "post report" feature to report posts. Do not respond to such topics yourself. Members who constantly "act" as moderators may be warned.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.
    5. 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.
    6. 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.
    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". 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.
    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 a 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 etc. Recruiting members for your own projects (moderators, designers, professional MOD work, etc.) is not permitted and is also considered spam. Users posting spam will be warned 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 vulnerability in the SCR forums before first notifying the developers. Time should be allowed for us, at least 3 working days wherever possible, 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 Team Members 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.
    14. Spectacular Computer Repair reserves the right to remove, modify or move posts at our sole discretion without notification or explanation.
    15. Members are responsible their own account and any activity created on that account.
    16. All publicly displayed messages are limited to the English language. This includes posts, titles, signatures and attachments or other forms of public display. Please see Free Language Translation to convert from a specific language to English.
    17. Members should refrain from cross-posting. Cross-posting refers to posting new duplicate threads or posts, or the linking to threads or posts already started by the member with the intention of gaining more exposure.
    18. Spectacular Computer Repair has placed censorship on words that it believes in its sole discretion should be censored. This list is updated quite frequently. Members are required not to post words or URLs that are censored by adding spaces, dots, replacing characters with substituting characters or by any other means in an attempt to defeat any censors put in place.
    19. These forums are for computer repair and general discussion only. Spectacular Computer Repair does not permit or condone the posting or linking to, in any manner, websites or images that contain or may contain pornography, sexually explicit, gross violence, gross or otherwise outside of the realm of computer repair including, but not limited to, soliciting for membership feedback or suggestions on your product and/or services, soliciting users for any project or purpose external to the forum; public, private, or commercial, as will be determined by our moderators to be detrimental to the community.
    20. Members are not permitted to utilize discussions to recommend, praise or belittle other products or any company without firsthand experience of those products and services. Should there be an issue with Spectacular Computer Repair's products or services, please utilize the contact us form in requesting help with that issue.
    21. If there is any questions, comments, concerns or regards about this documentation please utilize our contact us form with the specific issue.
    22. Usernames that are the same as a URL (ie. www.mywebsite.com or mywebsite.net) are not permitted. Usernames that are mywebsite are permitted. If members choose to utilize their name in that fashion please do not state oh just add .com to my username and go there or my website is my username. This will be seen as advertising and fall under the same rules.
    23. Members are required not to post any message that directs others to any pages at your own commercial domain, including informational pages. A commercial domain is defined as a website that receives any type of income or links to any income producing properties.
    24. Spectacular Computer Repair takes privacy extremely seriously. Members are requested not to contact any other member outside of the PM system here. Should members ignore this request, they do so at their own risk. Users and Members alike a prohibited from utilizing scrfix.com as a resource to be mined by individuals, groups, and/or businesses for any reason.
    25. Discussing products, services, details about a company outside that of Spectacular Computer Repair is prohibited unless another thread is specifically started with a poster that has made a direct reference against that company or service stating something that is untrue, misleading or needs clarification. In this case and only in this case are members are temporarily permitted to post a response in direct reference to the point discussed only and contain no additional promotional material or information.

  3. Signatures

    1. Signatures may contain:
      • Up to five lines 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.
      • Up to 2 smilies
      • Up to 10 Special Characters
    2. Signatures may not contain:
      • Pricing plans
      • Sales material
      • The word Free in any way shape or form when describing cost for an item
      • Font size above normal
      • Rental proposals
      • Offensive material to Spectacular Computer Repair, its members and/or staff
    3. Text sizes should be between 75% and 100% (small and normal). Text in signatures is subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, warez, emoticons, and so forth.
    4. Links in signatures are permitted to a maximum of four unique pages or sites. Spectacular Computer Repair Team members are allowed additional links to aid in rendering support for Spectacular Computer Repair. Such links may only be to *.scrfix.com or 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 Spectacular Computer Repair. You may not link to warez, porn or political, racist, other similar hate sites or any sites that are not family related material. Links are included in signature size limits.
    5. Members are required to setup links and signatures in their profile and not added manually to messages.
    6. Users abusing these rules will be warned.
    7. Signature Spam is forbidden in all forums and sub-forums. Signature Spam is defined as a post that was made with the intention of showing a signature only. Spectacular Computer Repair staff will be the sole determiners whether or not a post was made with this intention.
    8. Spectacular Computer Repair reserves the right to ask you to change and/or remove your signature at any time for any reason without prior notification.

  4. Avatars

    1. Users are permitted to utilise a gallery 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 120 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 12KB (12288 Bytes) in filesize 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

  5. Policing

    1. Spectacular Computer Repair 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. SCR reserves the right to place a temporary or permanent ban on any user in its sole discretion.
    2. Arguing with team members 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 relevant team leader, e.g. if warned by a moderator you should contact the Moderator team leader. If they feel you were treated badly they will remove a warning.
    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 team members 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 Spectacular Computer Repair may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time this is a rare occurrence.
    7. Members posting on behalf of any other banned member risk becoming banned themselves. This includes, but is not limited to, all forums and sub-forums, private messages, signatures and email features.
    8. Any posts not meeting these rules and regulations may be removed permanently without notice.
    9. Spectacular Computer Repair does not remove posts on request and will be the sole determiner on whether a post gets removed or not.
    10. Any abuse towards Spectacular Computer Repair, its staff, members and/or management will result in a warning and possible immediate suspension or ban of your account at our sole discretion.

  6. Spectacular Computer Repair Policies

    1. In light of our policy of encouraging candid, open exchanges of views and the rapid distribution of information originating from many sources, Spectacular Computer Repair cannot determine and will not stand behind the accuracy of information that may be uploaded to the forum.
    2. Opinions, advice and all other information expressed by participants in discussions are those of the author. End Users and members rely on such information at your own risk. You are urged to seek professional advice for specific, individual situations and not rely solely on advice or opinions given in the discussions. Spectacular Computer Repair offers these professional services.
    3. Spectacular Computer Repair reserves the right to modify and amend these terms at any time without notice. It is the member's responsibility to remain informed of current Spectacular Computer Repair policies.
    4. Spectacular Computer Repair further reserves our right to disable any account at any time for any reason and without notice.

  7. Spectacular Computer Repair Policies

    1. We will not release any member information unless under court order to do so.


If there are any rules or policies you do not understand, please contact us at our Spectacular Computer Repair Contact Form.
 
 
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