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| Admin Das BanHammer  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The South
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| Torrenting Discussions Due to the increase in discussions about and involving torrents and torrenting, Tech-Forums is making a stand against it. While there is a lot of legal content available through BitTorrent protocols, these discussions are not about legal content. Linux distributions are legal content. Games, movies, and other non-open source operating systems are not legal content. This will also include euphemisms or allusions used in the place of "torrenting" and such. It is regrettable that such action must be taken by the mod team, but Tech-Forums is a place of technological discussions and community, not a den of illegal activity.
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| Admin  Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: "Almost Heaven" USA
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  | General Forum RULES Greetings Members! We want to continue to grow Tech-Forums into an active community for web users worldwide. These rules are in place so that all members can enjoy their time here. 1) Be Respectful Treat other members as you would have them treat you. This means no flaming, insulting, or belittling other members. 2) Stay on Topic Posts in a thread should not deviate from the original topic. For a new discussion, make a separate post. Along with staying on topic, it should be noted to post in the right area! Before 40 posts you will have your post moved and advised where to post. If you are beyond the 40 post mark your post can be deleted without notice. Each area has a description on what is included in that area. 3) No inappropriate language or images Avoid vulgar, racist, and sexist comments, as well as swearing. We have a Zero Profanity policy. There is an automatic censor, but that does not mean anything it misses is necessarily acceptable. The censor should never have to be used, as appropriate language should be used initially. Do not post pornographic, violent, gory, or otherwise offensive graphics or links. Images should be scaled down as necessary to maintain a consistent and readable forum layout. 4) No Spamming Spamming is a broad term. Spamming includes unauthorized advertising, unproductive and useless posting, post-padding, empty posts, referral and associate links, pyramid schemes, etc. 5) Keep Things Legal Any discussion, links, or information on hacking, cracking, serial numbers, pirating, warez, or any other illegal matters is not allowed. This includes talks of Emulators and Torrents. Discussion of legal torrents such as Linux distrobutions is fine. But anything that is copyrighted, pay per use or covered by any sort of copyright is forbidden. The links provide the information needed. 6) No Avatar or Custom Title Abuse Avatars and custom titles are subject to Rule 3. Titles may not contain "Banned", "Administrator", "Moderator", or any of their abbreviations. 7) Signatures must adhere to the following specifications:
8) The Buy/Trade/Sell area is a privilege. It is not a right. You must earn you way into this area with having 100 posts. As with the signatures spamming you way to 100 posts will get you disbarred from this area. The B/S/T area has a very special set of rules to follow. Read up on them so you know them before you get access and start to post there. 9) Off-Topic Area is also a privilege. It is not a right. You will gain access to this area at 40 posts just like your signature. This area has its own set of rules as well. Read up on them and get to know them before you enter so that you do not get into trouble upon gaining access. 10) Questions or Concerns If you have a question, comment or concern contact the Moderator of the area you have the issue with. If they can not resolve the issue they will refer it to the next person in line. Confidential concerns can be posted in the Confidential Discussions forum. Only the original poster and the moderator team can see these posts, and any discussions there are treated as both private and confidential. 11) New Members have certain requirements that must be met before access is granted to certain features, namely Signatures, PM (Personal Message) System, B/S/T (Buy/Trade/Sell) Forums, and the OT (Off-Topic) Forums. The requirements are as follows.
12) Enjoy yourself! Have a great time posting and we look forward to your feedback. When the rules are breached, the moderators and administrators may issue infractions, remove privileges, or choose to ban a user immediately, depending on the severity. Ignored warnings and continued offense usually result in banning. The administrators and moderators reserve the right at all times to edit or remove any posts, images, signatures, avatars, and custom titles. Tech-Forums reserves the right to change or alter these rules at any time without notice. Anything not expressly covered in these rules is subject to an Administrator/Moderator's approval. An Administrator and/or Moderator’s word is final. Updated: 10 Dec 2008 ----------------------------------------------- Regarding avatars, signatures, and special areas: Forum privileges have been set up on usergroups. These usergroups allow for different forum privileges to be earned as members participate in the community, and thus are based on the number of posts made by members. Here is a current breakdown of those permissions and the usergroups for them: Registered Users (0 -39 posts):
Any and all of these privileges can be revoked, but will only be revoked if there is reasonable evidence that calls for it. Also, any member "spamming" their post count to try to gain access (such as a multitude of useless or very short "I agree" type posts) will quickly find either their posts deleted, their access revoked, or both. Updated 30 November 2008 ----------------------------------------------- The Infraction System is a way to give points to members that break the rules. Here's the point system:
The points will accumulate until they expire. If a user accumulates a certain amount of points, there are automatic bans. The accumulated points are: 30 points is a 7 day suspension. 75 points is a 1 month suspension. 150 points is a permanent ban. The Infraction System is a disciplinary system to get members to conform to the rules. That's why this system has a set amount of points and a set amount of time for expiration of those points. The auto ban is also a great way to show that abiding by the rules is imperative. Note: Some of the infractions are extended. That means a user will receive extended expiration times if given a second infraction that matches an existing active infraction. For example, a user is given a small infraction that expires in 14 days. An hour later this user is given the same infraction for another post. Since the user already had an active small infraction, this new infraction's expiration time is added to the end time of the previous infraction. Effectively, this new infraction will now end 27 days and 23 hours later instead of the default of 14 days. If the user was given a third infraction, it would be added to the end of the second infraction as well, which in this case would put them in the temp ban. Explanation of Infractions (this list is not all inclusive): Sig Rule Violation is self-explanatory. See the sig thread. Inappropriate Language is for bypassing the profanity filter, and may be for insinuations and inuendos. Small Infraction is for small offenses that might not be covered in the other categories. Flaming is self-explanatory. Necroposting is when a thread older than 3 months and is posted in. If the thread is over 3 months old. Do not post in it. The 3 moth limit is not from the date the thread was created but from the date of the LAST post in the thread. The date can be found by the user name. Piracy/Warez is self-explanatory. Spam is a broad term. Spamming includes unauthorized advertising, unproductive and useless posting, post-padding, empty posts, referral and associate links, pyramid schemes, etc. PM Spam is when a member is reported for sending spam via PMs. Inappropriate Thread/Post is anything that is not allowed here. This is a tech forum. Permanent Ban is 1000 points and no one will ever accumulatively achieve this. This amount of points is given to one time spammers and those that will never be allowed back. If you receive an infraction, only you and the Forum Leaders will know. It is not a public record that everyone can see. I hope this helps with understanding the system. *Please refer to the RULES, News and Announcements forum often to find any changes or additions made to these rules. |
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| Super Moderator  Join Date: May 2005 Location: Locked in a dungeon, Perth
Posts: 7,883
| Folding@Home (F@H) - Join Team Tech-Forums! You may have heard of Folding@Home before, you may have seen the userbars or you may not have a clue what I'm talking about. Whatever the case, Tech-Forums has a Folding@Home team and we would like you to join. Our team number is 12864. What is Folding@Home? Folding@Home is a project conducted by Stanford University. It's purpose is to investigate the folding and misfolding of proteins. While it may sound insignificant, this work is actually very important. The behaviour of proteins can cause diseases such as cancer, so studying them can provide valuble information towards prevention and cures. Stanford's project revolves around computer generated simulations and analysis. Performing the simulations requires an incredible amount of computational power................ This is where you come in. The "Folding@Home Client" fetches small pieces of work from the F@H server, your computer will perform this small simulation and then send all the resulting data back to Stanford. The great thing about the client is it will only use "idle" computer time. In other words it will only use computer power that is not being used by you so you practically won't even notice a difference, you can help out without any detriment to your computing experience. What do you need? To run Folding@Home all you need is a working internet connection and either a computer (running a windows 98 or higher/Mac OSX/Linux) or a PS3. PS3s work great for Folding so if you have one please consider running the PS3 client. You can also fold using certain ATI graphics cards. Are there any benefits for running Folding@Home? Aside from the satisfaction of having played a small part in research that may well cure a multitude of diseases, there are a few perks. For your dedication you can have your name added to our milestone list. You also get a break on your signature restrictions with F@H team members being allowed to break the image restriction by having a F@H stats signature and a milestone userbar. You can find more information at Stanford's website here The client can be downloaded from this page. Our team page is here. And our milestone list is here. For setting up an ATI card, see Ethereal_Dragon's guide. Please don't forget that our team number for Tech-Forums is 12864! Thanks, Nitestick
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