Follow the Rules

The WAZER Forum rules can be found below. Please become familiar with these rules and practice them when using the Forum.

1. Language - Absolutely no offensive, abusive, vulgar, pornographic, hateful, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, racist, or otherwise discriminatory language/media. Any interaction that can be regarded as the above is FORBIDDEN.
2. Respect - Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Please respect the differences in opinions. Disagreements can be channeled into productive and factual discussions.
3. Communication - Never jump into conclusions about other Forum users. Not everyone in the community has the same level of skill set, knowledge, experience, or resources. Seek clarification and ask questions to avoid misunderstandings.
4. Organization - Please keep all discussions in the proper category. The “About…” post found at the top of every category will explain the purpose and scope. Become familiar with these scopes and create topics in the corresponding categories.

WAZER has created this Forum to give users a place to build a community. Help us keep the community safe and fun for everyone! If someone is breaking the rules or behaving negatively, please DO NOT get involved. Simply flag the post and leave any thoughts in the report - a WAZER Support member or Forum Moderator will handle the situation as soon as possible.

If you Break the Rules

If a Moderator deems that the rules have been broken, there are two possible outcomes:

• Reminder - This can take place publicly or privately, but will always be friendly. Typically this is the first action taken in resolving a broken rule. If topics are created in the wrong category, we will remind you and take resolution. However, there will only be two chances of reminders before the Moderator issues a higher level warning or punishment.
• Access - If more than two reminders have been given out by a Moderator, access to the Forum or specific account capabilities will be revoked. If an offense is serious, a reminder can be skipped. This can result in an immediate silence, suspension, ban, or other features to your account removed for any period of time.

This is a Civilized Place for Public Discussion

Please treat this discussion forum with the same respect you would a public park. We, too, are a shared community resource — a place to share skills, knowledge and interests through ongoing conversation.

These are not hard and fast rules. They are guidelines to aid the human judgment of our community and keep this a kind, friendly place for civilized public discourse.

Any post or thread leading conversation outside of the WAZER workflow will be seen as advertisement. Please keep all discussion surrounding 3rd party products and links off of the WAZER Community Forum.

Improve the Discussion

Help us make this a great place for discussion by always adding something positive to the discussion, however small. If you are not sure your post adds to the conversation, think over what you want to say and try again later.

One way to improve the discussion is by discovering ones that are already happening. Spend time browsing the topics here before replying or starting your own, and you’ll have a better chance of meeting others who share your interests.

The topics discussed here matter to us, and we want you to act as if they matter to you, too. Be respectful of the topics and the people discussing them, even if you disagree with some of what is being said.

Be Agreeable, Even When You Disagree

You may wish to respond by disagreeing. That’s fine. But remember to criticize ideas, not people. Please avoid:

• Name-calling
• Ad hominem attacks
• Responding to a post’s tone instead of its actual content
• Knee-jerk contradiction

Instead, provide thoughtful insights that improve the conversation.

Your Participation Counts

The conversations we have here set the tone for every new arrival. Help us influence the future of this community by choosing to engage in discussions that make this forum an interesting place to be — and avoiding those that do not.

Discourse provides tools that enable the community to collectively identify the best (and worst) contributions: bookmarks, likes, flags, replies, edits, watching, muting and so forth. Use these tools to improve your own experience, and everyone else’s, too.

Let’s leave our community better than we found it.

If You See a Problem, Flag It

Moderators have special authority; they are responsible for this forum. But so are you. With your help, moderators can be community facilitators, not just janitors or police.

When you see bad behavior, don’t reply. Replying encourages bad behavior by acknowledging it, consumes your energy, and wastes everyone’s time. Just flag it. If enough flags accrue, action will be taken, either automatically or by moderator intervention.

In order to maintain our community, moderators reserve the right to remove any content and any user account for any reason at any time. Moderators do not preview new posts; the moderators and site operators take no responsibility for any content posted by the community.

Always Be Civil

Nothing sabotages a healthy conversation like rudeness:

• Be civil. Don’t post anything that a reasonable person would consider offensive, abusive, or hate speech.
• Keep it clean. Don’t post anything obscene or sexually explicit.
• Respect each other. Don’t harass or grief anyone, impersonate people, or expose their private information.
• Respect our forum. Don’t post spam or otherwise vandalize the forum.

These are not concrete terms with precise definitions — avoid even the appearance of any of these things. If you’re unsure, ask yourself how you would feel if your post was featured on the front page of a major news site.

This is a public forum, and search engines index these discussions. Keep the language, links, and images safe for family and friends.

Keep It Tidy

Make the effort to put things in the right place, so that we can spend more time discussing and less cleaning up. So:

• Don’t start a topic in the wrong category; please read the category definitions.
• Don’t cross-post the same thing in multiple topics.
• Don’t post no-content replies.
• Don’t divert a topic by changing it midstream.
• Don’t sign your posts — every post has your profile information attached to it.

Rather than posting “+1” or “Agreed”, use the Like button. Rather than taking an existing topic in a radically different direction, use Reply as a Linked Topic.

Post Only Your Own Stuff

You may not post anything digital that belongs to someone else without permission. You may not post descriptions of, links to, or methods for stealing someone’s intellectual property (software, video, audio, images), or for breaking any other law.

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This site is operated by your friendly local staff and you, the community. If you have any further questions about how things should work here, open a new topic in the site feedback category and let’s discuss! If there’s a critical or urgent issue that can’t be handled by a meta topic or flag, contact us via the staff page.

Terms of Service

Yes, legalese is boring, but we must protect ourselves – and by extension, you and your data – against unfriendly folks. We have a Terms of Service describing your (and our) behavior and rights related to content, privacy, and laws. To use this service, you must agree to abide by our TOS.