General Forum Rules

1. Do not spam or self-promote in the forums
   
   These forums define spam as unsolicited advertisement for goods, services and/or other web sites or posts with little, no 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. Doing so is a waste of time. 
   
   Your account will be banned permanently and your posts will be deleted.
   
   Spamming also includes sending private messages to a large number of different users.
   
   
   
2. Do not post "Free " threads
   
   Posting pyramid scams (such as free iPods, LCDs etc.) is forbidden. All such posts/signatures will be edited or deleted. Any new users posting scams will be banned permanently; contributing users will either be warned or temporarily banned.
   
   
3. Do not cross post questions
   
   Please refrain from posting the same question in several forums. There is normally one forum which is most suitable in which to post your question.  If you're not sure where to post, ask a moderator first.
   
   
4. Do not post copyright-infringing material
   
   Do not upload, attach, or otherwise post any copyrighted material which you are not free to redistribute (subject to the licensing terms of the 
   specific item). If you have a question about having permission to post or attach a specific item, please ask a moderator.
   
   We do not condone nor accept posts pertaining to illegal activities such as hacking, cracking, warez, or spam.
   
   Any posts or threads found in violation of this rule will be edited or deleted, and the poster warned or possibly banned; at the moderation team's discretion.
   
   
5. Do not post "offensive" posts, links or images
   
   Do not post anything which is offensive, hateful, racist, sexist, discriminatory, obscene, vulgar or in violation of local or international laws.
   
   
6. Do not PM users asking for help unless asked to do so by the user.
   
   Do not send private messages to any users asking for help. If you need help, make a new thread in the appropriate forum.
7. Remain respectful of other users, moderators and administrators at all times
   
   All posts should be professional and courteous. You have every right to disagree with your fellow community members and explain your perspective. 
   
   However, you are not free to attack, degrade, insult, or otherwise belittle them or the quality of this community. It does not matter what title or 
   power you hold in these forums, you are expected to obey this rule. Doing otherwise will get your account banned temporarily, or permanently if the situation becomes severe enough (this will be left to the discretion of the moderation team).
   
   For example, phrases such as "shut up, idiot," are indicative of problematic posts and should be reported. Suggested alternatives include "I 
   disagree with what you said for the following reasons..." Please remember to stay mature and thoughtful at all times.

Signature and Avatar Guidlines

One of the perks of continued membership is having a custom signature for your posts. The contents of your sig must be acceptible for our community, 

and shall not contain any profanity, vulgarity, or insults/disparaging comments to our community or its members. In addition, comments and/or links 

that represent direct competition are not allowed. Once you have been a member for 30 days and have 30 posts, you will have the ability 

to include a signature in your post and upload an avatar to your profile. Your signature will be shown only on your first post on each page of a 

thread, to avoid clutter.

• Keep your signature and avatar in good taste, the contents of your signature must be acceptable for the community: no vulgarity, lewd 
  
  men/women, profanity or insults to other community members.
  
  
• If you use an image as your signature, it should be no larger than 486 pixels wide by 100 pixels tall. Your avatar will be limited to 100 pixels 
  
  by 100 pixels.
  
  
• Animation should be kept to a minimum and both your signature and avatar shouldn't be too distracting.
  
  
• Keep the size of any images in your signature below 50KB. Your avatar will be limited to a size of 14.6KB.
  
  
• If you don't want to use an image in your signature, you can have up to six lines of text (with a maximum font size of 2).
  
  
• Do not include spam, harassing links or affiliate links in your signature.
  
  However, we will not object to you posting links to either your personal websites or other commercial projects which you support. This is a 
  
  privilege which you are allowed as a contributing user.
  
  Comments and/or links that represent direct competition are not allowed.
  
  
• Do not create fake signatures. If you are not yet entitled to having a signature (because you have not been here for 30 days or don't have 30 
  
  posts) you are not allowed to create a fake signature, where you post the same text or links at the bottom of every post. Your posts may be edited 
  
  and you may receive a warning.

Any signature violating these rules will be considered spam. The signature will be deleted and the offending member will be addressed by our 

moderators.

Reputation Rules

Reputation should be used to reward users for informative and insightful posts. It should not be used to reward jokes, and pointless trolling.

If you see that someone has been repped multiple times in one post, think hard about repping them again. Go find another user to reward. There are 

many contributing users to the forum who still have a low reputation.

Registration Agreement

Registration to this forum is free! By using our forums (this includes but is not limited to signing up as a member or even browsing our forums 

without signing up) you agree to the following:

The owner, administrators, and moderators of Forums will not be held liable for any objectionable messages posted on this forum, ownership 

and liability lie with the original poster of the message in question. It is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages express the 

views of the author, and NOT Just8Ns and  the owners of Just8Ns Forums will not be held responsible for the content of any message, regardless of what the message says or implies or any posts replying to said message. You warrant that by registering for our forums, or simply just browsing our forums, you will indemnify Just8Ns from any and all legal liability both civil, criminal, or otherwise. Any legal proceedings brought against Just8Ns or its owner must be originated in  Shelby, North Carolina. You warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-orientated, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws. The owners of Just8Ns Forums reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason but are not compelled to do so unless they deem it to be necessary.

The rules and guidelines found in this document cover all forum categories within this site. In addition, some of the forums may have additional 
rules and guidelines that apply specifically. Before posting in any forum, check for any sticky posts containing additional rules.

 

General Posting Guidelines

I figured this was necessary because a lot of people come in and post threads without thinking, and without realizing that there is no possible way 

they could get help because of the way they posted the question. Here are some general guidelines.

USE SEARCH FIRST!

There is a pretty good chance that unless you have some
really odd or unique problem that it has been addressed on this
forum before (or even hundreds of times before for some issues).

Use the forum's search feature first to see if there are already some good threads on the subject. It's easy to search - just click the "Search" 

button at the top right of the page.

Be DESCRIPTIVE

I cannot stress this enough. We cannot possibly help you if you simply post a thread, copy and paste your whole script and say "it has problems what's 

wrong with it?". Keep this in mind:

1. Remember that you know a lot more about your topic than we do. Don't assume we know just what it does.

Don't use stupid topic names

Post a descriptive topic name! Give a short summary of your problem IN THE SUBJECT. Don't use attention getting subjects. They don't get attention. 

They repel attention and annoy people.

Here's a great list of topic subjects YOU SHOULD NOT POST by freebsd:

1) Help me 
2) Hello 
3) You must know the answer 
4) Please help this female newbie
5) Something wrong 
6) Come on PHP gurus 
7) This one for you 
8) Just wondering 
9) This is too complicated for me 
10) possible? 
11) Very urgent 
12) I have a question
13) Stupid question
14) Newbie needs help
15) pulling my hair out
16) this is driving me nuts

Generally ANYTHING similar to those is unacceptable. Just be descriptive.