Forum Guidelines and Rules

Parent article: AltiumLive - Forums

The AltiumLive Forums play an important role in facilitating a gathering place for the wider AltiumLive community to communicate and share their knowledge. Their very function is to provide an effective arena for fielding peer-to-peer questions and discussions.

All members of the AltiumLive community can participate and engage fully on the Forums. The Forums themselves are moderated by Altium employees, and Altium employees may contribute to them as another source of comment and information from time to time.

So that everyone can manage their time within the AltiumLive community effectively, Altium respectfully requests that all users who wish to ask questions or contribute through the Forums, observe some basic guidelines and rules at all times, as detailed in the following sections.

Forum Guidelines

• Prior to starting a new thread with a question, search the Forums, the Altium Wiki and the Solutions database. The answer you seek may already live across these, and can be quickly obtained.

• Remember that AltiumLive is a USER community, and as such, it is possible you may never get an answer to a posed question in the Forums.

• Please do not demand an answer from Altium employees. While Altium employees do their utmost to help and provide support where their resources permit, they are just like other participants and are NOT obligated to answer every (or any) question.

• Please include a concise and relevant Subject (title) to your message so users can can get an idea of the subject of your enquiry very quickly. Users do not read messages first, they read Subject lines. If you want interest in your content, post an accurate Subject. Your message should always be relevant and in line with the Subject title.

• Please do NOT create multiple threads on the same specific issue.

• Please try to stick to one topic per thread. Creating a thread that covers multiple different issues can be confusing.

• Please do not hijack a thread by changing the topic of discussion.

• Please be friendly and respectful to everyone within the AltiumLive community.

• Please respect the moderators, they are here to help. If your thread has been disabled or locked, the moderators have a good reason and can explain it to you via email.

Forum Rules

In addition to the aforementioned guidelines, you are required to agree to the following basic rules for the courteous and polite peer-to-peer exchanges of knowledge and information.

1. Access to these Forums comes as part of your AltiumLive membership. As part of this membership process, you MUST register under your correct name with a valid email address. Your email address must be valid at ALL times and this is entirely the responsibility of the user. Bouncing or invalid email addresses may be suspended or removed at the sole discretion of Altium. (Note: as a user, your email address for registration will be tied to your account details.)
    
2. You MUST refrain from posting ANY content (masked or otherwise), which contains profanity, insults, obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, discriminatory, religious or political subjects, or threatening, disparaging, demanding or disrespectful remarks. The "it was a joke" excuse is entirely unacceptable.
    
3. You MUST refrain from posting content which may be understood as rude, aggressive, over-bearing by other users or Altium and any such behavior will not be tolerated. Please remember that the interpretation of written content is OFTEN taken out of context by alternate cultures or when read in a language which is not native to the reader.
    
4. With the exception of Altium products and online communities, you MUST NOT actively or passively advertise or promote ANY other products or communities except where this shall contribute to the overall Altium community or product experience.
    
5. You MUST NOT infringe any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, confidentiality or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy, nor publish product serial numbers, or registration or activation codes of any kind.
    
6. You MUST NOT post content which may violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation of any kind (including without limitation) the laws and regulations governing export control, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising.
    
7. You MUST not post content containing viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other harmful programming routines.
    
8. You MUST NOT impersonate any another user within this online community or any Altium employee.

Moderation

In the interest of maintaining the high degree of relevance of the information exchange within the Forums Altium, at Altium’s sole discretion, reserves the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread at any time.

Disclaimers

• As Altium has no control or advanced knowledge over the material posted within the community, these rules are intended to govern the behavior and content any user shall individually contribute.

• Message content express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily the views of Altium Limited or any entity associated with Altium Limited, including but not limited to, messages by Altium staff. Altium does not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message, and is not responsible for the contents of any message.

• The moderators of the Forums will do their best to remove objectionable or questionable material in a timely manner; however, again it is important to remember that posted content express the views of the author, not necessarily those of Altium or its employees.

• By using the Altium Forums you accept these terms of use which have been kept to their most basic form and to a minimum so that constructive interactive discussions can be freely undertaken by the user community.