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These rules from the forums need to be adapted to the Community and Posted in the Ideas and Tutorial sections. It may help to reduce similar ideas being posted and tutorials that have nothing to do with Mint ie: references to lottery or meaningless software.

~~~~~IF ANYONE DISAGREES. LETS HEAR YOUR OPINION. THIS IS AN OPEN COMMUNITY BUT THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME TYPE OF ETIQUETTE TO HELP THIS STOP!~~~~~

Forums rules: General

Postby Husse on Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:06 am
Welcome to the Mint forum!
We hope you enjoy using the forum.
RULES
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Spam and other posts that are completely out of order will be deleted without further notice.
User names that are offensive or clearly intended only for spam (contains certain letter combinations known to be used by spammers) or used for spam will also be deleted and/or banned without further notice.
Offensive names can be, but is not limited to, names that have sexual and/or political content
Be warned - this happens even if you have posted "real posts" before
Do not post references to pirated software
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Search for a solution first - in the forum and on the internet as a whole

If you overclock your computer, stop that and see what happens before you ask for help

Please consider which forum you post in - it matters. The right forum increases your chances of a speedy answer.

If you have a new question make a new post, it will be noted as an unanswered post by many. Do not add to an existing topic
Posts added to a very old topic will be ignored - it is hard enough to keep track as it is

Supply facts about your problem - things like which hardware, which version of Mint and software that are involved, error messages (as exactly as possible) and more. This may give you a real answer directly instead of a request for facts.
And please tell us if you run Mint with the help of mint4win

Don't cross post - one post is enough.

Use (decent) standard English. The Mint forums have "always" been written in pretty good English. Not all here are native English speakers (including parts of the team, like Clem and Husse)

Be polite - the forum behaves so well generally that this is really not necessary to point out.

Be patient - everybody here is unpaid (even Clem) so we have other obligations like our jobs that have priority. I (Husse) also have irregular working hours so there are a few days every month when I do not have time for Mint.

Please don't ask general support questions in private messages, it's much better to post in the forum
I, Husse, will only ask you to make a topic in the forum - it's much better as there can be days when I do not have time for Mint.
However if you think you don't get useful answers you are welcome to PM me with a link to the topic.

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After you have posted

Please add "Solved" to the subject line when your problem is solved. (Just push the "Edit" button to do it)

You may have received an answer, but you feel you are waiting in vain for more answers.
If you think you need more help, just bump your post. You can provide more facts or just post the word bump and the topic will move up the list of topics and get attention

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Edited for text 10-7-2011 to resolve overflow