PHP KingDom - Info - General Site Rules

Last Update: 01-01-2010. Creation Date: 01-01-2010.
The following rules apply everywhere on our site, unless explicitly mentioned otherwise in a forum specific rule.
Global Rules Commercial Software Products, Services Forum Specific Rules Global Rules :- Staff decisions are final. Ultimately, staff has complete discretion over what is and is not acceptable on the site. Public discussions of staff decisions are not permitted on the site. If you have any concerns or queries relating to a staff decision, please take it up in private with a member of the site administration team. All members must be treated in a respectful and adult manner. All members should respect and adhere to the promotion of harmony within the community. Do not attempt to disrupt the community in any way. No "Flaming". Please do not post any messages that harass, insult, belittle, threaten or flame another member or guest. No "Trolling". Please do not post any topic that disrupts the peace and harmony of this board. Don't create meaningless threads with the sole purpose of starting a dispute. This includes messages in profiles and signatures. No "Spamming". Please do not double post or cross-post the same message in multiple forums. You should not mass-PM or mass-email multiple members of this site with the same message. You should not post for the sake of increasing your post count or what's similar. No "Bumping" (Your threads/posts): Please do not repeatedly bump your threads to try and get attention. Most members of the site are not online 24 hours a day and so will not see your post the instant it is made. Do not bump a thread within 24 hours, and not more than twice a week. No "Bumping" (Other’s threads/posts): Before replying to a thread, take notice of the last post date. Try and avoid replying to posts more than 6 months old. If you have a similar question and cannot find the answer, create your own thread. No Offensive Material Please do not post messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-orientated, hateful, threatening, racist, sexist, discriminatory, and/or otherwise violate of any local or international laws. This includes links in your signature, profile, posted images, photos and avatars. Staff will ultimately decide if something is appropriate or not. Please note that this is a PG-13 rated site and therefore is meant to be suitable for all ages, including under 13s with parental guidance/permission. No spreading of any copyrighted material is to take place on this site without the expressed permission of the copyright holder, which must be attached to the material. For example, you cannot upload complete copyrighted package. Partial code is permitted, as long as it is solely for the location of the correct place in the code. Any copyrighted code snippets should be no more than 10 lines in length, unless approved by the author. No Trading: This site is not a market place. No posting messages anywhere on this site that are primarily for the promotion or advertising of any website, forums, email address, business, MLM, activity, or other entities that you have an affiliation with (ie. no self-promotion). Commercial Software Products, Services Discussion of commercial Software Products or Services is permitted on the forums at PHPKD.NET as long as they are discussed with no promotion. Any promotional threads will be closed and/or deleted on sight. Promotion of commercial Software Products or Services is not allowed without prior staff permission. Commercial Software Products or Services authors are not permitted to create threads regarding their own products or promote their products in any way, shape or form, or to encourage another user to do so without prior staff permission. Lite versions of commercial Software Products or Services are permitted to be released here as long as: It is a working version It is not time limited in any way It is completely free to the user It is stand alone and completely separate to the full version A single link back to the commercial version is permitted, as long as no pricing or promotional language is used in the link or embedded into the lite version. Add-ons for commercial Software Products or Services may be released here providing a free version has been released here and: It is fully functional It is not time limited in any way It is completely free to the user Forum Specific Rules Specific Forum Rules may be applied to some forums. Please read the announcements and sticky threads in every forum you access for further details.
Members of PHPKD.NET are responsible for reviewing PHPKD.NET General Site Rules. PHPKD.NET reserves the right to modify General Site Rules at any time. Your continued use of the PHPKD.NET constitutes your consent to such changes.
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