Telescope Reviews: Forum Guidelines

Welcome to the Solar System Imaging & Processing Forum!

I would like to welcome you to this forum and hope you will find it enjoyable and informative. This forum is for imaging and processing anything in our solar system. The Sun, Planets, Moons, Comets, Satellites and asteroids. It is open to all cameras though this is mainly a webcam forum primarily, being webcam are the most used imaging systems for solar system objects.

To make our forum the best it is important that all of you utilizing this forum please assist us in keeping this forum organized and user friendly by adhering to the guidelines.

Let me start by describing what we believe are good common sense guidelines.
1. Please no profanity, young teenagers frequent this site and I do not want them thinking it is okay to use profanity in a public forum. So please refrain from the four letter words even if you hear them on primetime television. Let’s be better than everyone else.

2. Many times we take people posting the wrong way and the first thought is to lash out against the poster. Please use common sense and if you feel someone has offended you :
a.First, re-read the post and make sure you’re not reading it wrong.
b.Second, if you feel your assumption is correct either politely ask the posting party if he/she meant the statement as you took it; or send the person a private message asking the same think. Many times you will find out the person did not mean it the way you took the message and will either re-write the message or he will/should explain the message in a way that is satisfactory to you.
c.Just because we disagree with one another does not give anyone the right to personally exchange little sarcastic messages back in forth. There are other forums that have this kind of behavior and I do not like it.
d.If you still have a problem with someone’s posting, contact one of the moderators via private message and we can and will handle it.
e.Above all, be a sport.

3. Thread building: I ask that everyone in this forum reframe from thread building. The reason is the forum becomes too cluttered and it makes finding subjects and information difficult when the forum fills up with everyone’s, “look what I did thread”.

4. Unwanted threads will be deleted so please adhere to the guidelines.

Thanks
Charles

Edited by Greg K. (03/07/05 04:25 PM)