Dear Members,

This is an unofficial Guide lines created by Mint Community on the basis of 'Before you post read this' in the forums by @Husse . This guidelines will always be constantly amended. Anybody can contribute to it by giving a comment.

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I will request mods to have a look at it and kindly correct any points / issues that they find that are needed to be changed / deleted.

This is an effort to help moderators reduce their time to create one and gives them a ready framework, making things easy for them.

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Full credit to

@husse for original concept,

@blueXrider to think of implementing it to community in an idea Etiquette,

@kazztan0325 for adding attributes i.e. rich text formatting in ideas and comments.

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Welcome to the Mint Community!

We hope you enjoy using the community.

To know moderator rights and number of moderators click here.

Guidelines are intended to help reduce similar ideas being posted and tutorials (some have nothing to do with Mint eg: references to lottery or meaningless software.)

General Rules for Community Ideas and Tutorials:

1) Do not rush to create an idea / Tutorial. Do not dump everything that you have in mind, no offloading of frustration please. Think over an issue. Have patience. Create a rough draft in a word processor like writer. After proper formatting, copy paste in the description box.

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

3) Posts added to a very old topic will be ignored - it is hard enough to keep track as it is.

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

5) Spam and other posts that are completely out of order will be deleted without further notice.

6) 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.

7) Offensive names can be, but is not limited to, names that have sexual and/or political content

8) Be warned - this happens even if you have posted "real posts" before

9) Do not post references to pirated softwares.

10) If you vote an idea or tutorial, please comment (appreciation or reason for rejection).

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Guidelines for creating an Idea:

1) Search for idea in the community. Also have a look at forums titles 'Suggestions & New Ideas', 'Community Projects' and its sub-forum 'Ideas & Thoughts'

2) While posting an idea, please mention the need for this idea, how will it be beneficial and the possible solution by you.

3) If you have a new idea or tutorial create one,. However, If you differ slightly, or wish to add some more points, please indicate this in comment in an existing idea. This will avoid almost duplicate content. It is always better to amend existing idea (with due credit given to member who gave inputs for amendments) than creating similar ideas.

4) Be patient: If your idea is not considered or voted or commented immediately, please do not repeat it as a new idea. One post is enough. Every one here including Mods, devs and even Clem are not paid. They have other commitments like family, job / business. There can be days when one do not have time for Mint Community.

5) For better formatting and representation use html tags and attribute. This can be used in Idea and while commenting.

<> is opening tag and </> is a closing tag.

Please note that forum uses BB code which uses [] [/] square brackets.

e.g.

bold: use b inside opening and closing tag a closing tag is 

italics: use i

upderline: use u

Bold: <b>Idea</b>

Italics: <i>Idea</i>

Underline: <u>Idea</u>

Add an external clickable link

<a href="URL">Title</a>

To open link in new page

 

<a href="URL"target="_blank">Title</a>

 

Note: if you do not wish to add any title, but just make the url clickable, use url instad of title.

Anything in between > and </a> is considered as text.

<a href="URL"target="_blank">URL</a>

Insert image:

1) Upload the screen shot to 'Picasa Web Albums' with 'Shotwell'.

2) Log in 'Picasa Web Albums', and open the screen shot. ( My Photos > Shotwell Connect > )

3) Right-Click on the screen shot and click 'Copy Image URL' on the context menu.

4) Paste the Image URL into the tag which I showed in my first comments.

You may use your favorite image management software and online image storage service, of course.

<img src="URL/of/Image" width="480" height="320" alt="" align="left" /><br clear="left">

To Insert Smaller Image in comments use:

<img src="URL/of/the/image" width="120" height="90" alt="" align="left" /><br clear="left">

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Guidelines for creating Tutorial:

1) Please explore forums 'Tutorials / Howtos'. Your tutorial may be posted in forums as well.

2) Tutorial needs to be reviewed by a moderator before being public. Once the moderator has reviewed it, he / she will categorize under proper category. Read more about moderator rights.

3) Be descriptive.

4) Tutorial supports, rich text editing. Take full advantage of it. Picture is worth 1000 words. Please insert images wherever necessary.

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Don't fix it if it ain't broken, don't break it if you can't fix it - Husse

Thank you