Forum Rules

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Forum rules

These are the Forum Rules you agree to when you sign up:

Be respectful: everyone is here to learn, help and contribute.
No personal attacks: discuss an issue rather than attacking the person.
No spamming: this will get you banned immediately. See the SPAM section below.
You must verify your email address in order to get access to full posting/reply/uploading images functionality.

Changes/Additions to Rules:

We reserve the right to expand on or change the rules as we grow.

Breaking the rules

Generally we will warn you before banning you.
Repeated offences will lead to banning.
Breaking SPAM rules will lead to immediate deletion of your profile and SPAM content.

SPAM

Spam is unacceptable on this forum, if you are not sure what you are about to post is SPAM then ask one of the moderators or administrators. Spamming includes SPAM in your user profile and chat messages. Some non exhaustive examples of what we consider SPAM:

Off-topic posts with links to external websites. We have an "off topic" category and discussing off topic matters there is fine, just don't use that as an excuse to link out to stuff in order to drive traffic there.
Links in user profiles to commercial websites. The exception to that is Duet resellers and OEMs. Hobby or personal websites are normally ok for active users. If you register, do not engage on the forum and have a link in your profile you will potentially fall foul of the SPAM filters.
Descriptions in profiles that are spam or SEO related
Posts or links to products/service websites, that while may be 3d printing/cnc etc related (and so not necessarily off topic) are clearly there to drive traffic to that website and not for discussion. The exceptions to this are Duet3D resellers or OEMs. If in doubt, ask.

Please flag spam posts or profiles when you see them in case they are missed by an administrator.

Notes

New users

Due to an increased number of spammers we have had to introduce the following changes:

No profile website, background image, description can be set for new users until they have a reputation of 3 or more.
Unverified users (users who have not verified their email address) have limited posting ability - just new topics.
Some users will have to have manual approval before they can register.
Our T&Cs for using the forum will be updated to make it explicit what is acceptable or unacceptable as far as linking out to external websites from your profile.

Registered/verified email address

The email address you register on the forums is there to allow verification. Following that it is used for notifications (e.g. someone replied to your post or tagged you).
All notifications emails can be configured in your profile and you do not need to receive any of you do not want to.
We do not collect your email address to start spamming you! Quite the opposite; it is to reduce the admin overhead of keeping the forums as spam free as possible.

(updated 2nd Dec 2022)