Forum Rules
The following rules are in place to ensure the ATLAS.ti Forum can grow to be a place where peers can learn and share information in a most efficient and pleasant way. By posting to our forum, you accept these rules. Please read and follow them carefully.
Advertising
Advertising or soliciting other members to buy, sell or peruse any products or services through this discussion forum is not permitted. Chain letters and junk mail are also strictly prohibited. Topics/posts that contain this will be edited or deleted. -- We DO allow, and even encourage, notifications of scholarly events and publications, ATLAS.ti.related events, conference announcements, and calls for papers. We do not consider this advertising, but part of scholarly discourse and exchange.
Right to Privacy
You will not violate a person's privacy by publishing information against another member’s will, information that is private and personal. If you violate this rule, your account may be automatically banned without prior warning.
Spamming
Topics/posts that are just complete nonsense will be deleted, or have the entire thread locked, at the moderators discretion. If you violate this rule, your account may be automatically banned without prior warning.
Illegal Activity
Providing or asking for information on how to illegally obtain "warez", "gamez" or any other software or work protected by copyright law is strictly forbidden. If you violate this rule, your account may be automatically banned without prior warning.
Viruses, Malware and Adware
Posting links leading to virii, malware, adware, etc is forbidden. Any violation of this rule, your account will be banned without prior warning and the thread will be edited or deleted accordingly. WARNING TO OTHER USERS: You should be vigilent when clicking on links and exercise the same caution as you would on other sites.
Objectionable Topics, Language, and Behavior
Material that is knowingly defamatory, illegal, abusive, threatening or harassing, is strictly prohibited. As with anything, you, as a member, should use good common sense when posting. In other words, you agree not to be a jerk. Posts containing personal attacks on another user will be edited or deleted with no warning or consent. Topics/posts containing racist, pornographic, or otherwise objectionable text will be edited or deleted. If you violate this rule, your account may be automatically deleted without prior warning.
Problematic Technical Advice
The forum owners (ATLAS.ti GmbH) reserve the right to modify or delete any posting that contains potentially detrimental technical advice from users without warning or asking permission. While we highly appreciate your input and know that everyone does so with the best of intentions when providing advice to others, we also know that sometimes complex technical issues are inadvertedly misrepresented or misunderstood. This could feasibly lead to a situation where another user, basing his/her actions on the erroneous advice rendered, seriously puts in jeopardy their data or their installation of ATLAS.ti. When we become aware of such a case, we will take the liberty to intervene right away in the interest of everybody (including the unfortunate benefactor :).
What should I do if I see objectionable material on the forums?
It is important that members recognize the real-time nature of these forums; the moderators cannot always monitor the contents of posted messages. As such, we depend upon you to inform them when members are violating our rules. You must also recognize that they cannot respond immediately to such notices and that some time may pass before any warranted action is taken.
Cross-posting
We ask that you do not post the same question in more than one forum. If this happens, we reserve the right to determine the most appropriate forum and lock / delete all others.
Signature Size
To keep the page loading time and visual annoyance factor down to a minimum, ensure your graphical signatures do not exceed a maximum of 12,500 pixels or 15 kilobytes file size, whichever is reached first. Alternatively, three lines of text can be used as a signature. Do not pad out your text lines with blanks lines. A line of text is defined such that it does not wrap when viewed at a resolution of 640x480.
If these limits are exceeded then you may be contacted by a moderator requesting an amendmant to your signature. If none is made within a reasonable period of time, then a moderator may remove your signature from your profile.
To contact a moderator use the "Report this post to a moderator" function or send a private message to one of the moderators listed in the Forum Leaders page.
