Holygon Forum Guidelines

This public forum is a place for growing a helpful community around Holygon’s software products and all things related — by sharing and exchanging knowledge, tips, and skills in an ongoing conversation.

Forums build civilisation. Please treat this forum with the same regard as you would treat a public park near your home.

Below are basic guidelines for keeping this forum a friendly place for public discourse.

Improve Discussions

Help us make this a great place for discussion by always adding something positive to the discussion, however small.

One way to improve is by discovering current conversations. Spend some time browsing existing topics before replying or starting your own.

Be Kind

Be kind, also when you disagree with others.

Constructive disagreement is part of an interesting conversation. Just remember to criticize ideas, not people.

In other words, help others become as helpful as you.

Your Participation Counts

The forum software provides tools that help the community collectively identify the best (and worst) contributions: bookmarks, likes, flags, replies, edits, watching, muting and so forth.

Use these tools to improve the experience of yours and of everyone else’s.

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.

If you see bad behavior, do not reply. Replying feeds the trolls.

Instead, just flag the inappropriate post. This helps moderators take action.

Moderators do not preview new posts. Site staff take no responsibility for any content posted by the community. To maintain a helpful community, moderators reserve the right to remove content and user accounts for any reason.

Keep It Tidy

Please make the effort to put things in the right place, so that all may 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 🩷 button. Rather than taking an existing topic in a radically different direction, use Reply as a Linked Topic.

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This site is operated by a friendly moderator team and you, the community.

If you have any further questions about how things should work here, open a new topic in #site-feedback and let’s discuss! If there’s a critical or urgent issue that can’t be handled by a meta topic or flag, contact staff.

— Happy foruming!