Forum Rules

[GrimReaper 4739]

Just a reminder to all members that there's Forum Rules & Info link at the footer of each forum page.

We thank (and expect) everyone to adhere to those. 

They will be re-posted here as a refresher, for a limited time. 

Thanks. 

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Forum Rules

Forum Rules and Posting Guidelines

We rely on all members to help keep this Community Forum a safe place for people to share and view information related to Emby. To do this, we request that all members comply with the following rules when contributing:

Keep it Friendly
Be respectful and kind at all times. Appreciate that others may have an opinion different from yours. Treat all members with respect and courtesy. Disagreements are natural, but always engage in a civil and constructive manner. Always remember, "You catch more bees with honey than with vinegar".
 

Use Appropriate Language
Refrain from demeaning, discriminatory, or harassing behaviour and speech. Avoid using profanity or offensive language. This includes the use of slurs, swearing, and explicit content. Such behaviour will result in a warning or immediate ban depending on the severity.
 

No Trolling
Do not post with the intention of provoking others or causing unnecessary conflict. Doing so will result in a warning or immediate ban depending on the severity.
 

No Spamming
Avoid posting repetitive messages, advertisements, or irrelevant content. Spamming will result in post deletion and permanent ban.
 

No Adult Content
This is a family friendly community. Posting adult content, including but not limited to pornography, is strictly forbidden. Posts that violate this will be removed.
 

Stay on Topic
When creating a new discussion thread, give it a clear topic title and create your post in the appropriate forum. When contributing to an existing discussion, try to stay 'on topic'. If something new comes up within a topic that you would like to discuss, please start a new thread.
 

Share the Knowledge
Don't hold back in sharing your knowledge – it's likely someone will find it useful or interesting. When you give information, always try to provide sources.
 

Respect Privacy
Do not share personal information about yourself or others. This includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and other personally identifiable information (PII).
 

No Self-Promotion Without Permission
Self-promotion, including linking to personal websites, businesses, or content, is only allowed with prior approval from Admins or Moderators.
 

Report Problems
If you encounter a problem, inappropriate content, or another member violating the rules, report it to the Moderators instead of engaging in conflict. You can report a post by using the 'Report Malicious' function.
 

Follow Moderator Instructions
Moderators are here to enforce the rules and maintain order. Please follow their instructions and respect their decisions.
 

Profile Pics and Signatures
As with posts and topics, these must not be offensive or contain any restricted content like adult material, profanity or in any other way break the above rules. Animated images are not allowed in signatures.

 

 

Member Groups

1 - Rookie: 0 to 50 posts

Search flood control: 20 seconds

Display Name Changes: Need to PM Abobader to change it for you.

Bypass flood control? No (members need to wait 3 minutes before posting again).

Can edit own content?: Yes.

Edit time restriction: 15 minutes after posting.

Can hide (delete) own content?: No.

Need to PM an Admin or a Moderator.

 

2 - Regular: 51 posts and up

Search flood control: None.

Display Name Changes: Yes. (Can change display name: 1 every month).

Bypass flood control? Yes. (Flood control prevents users from making two posts in quick succession).

Can edit own content?: Yes.

Edit time restriction: 180 minutes after posting.

Can hide (delete) own content?: No.

Need to PM an Admin or a Moderator.

 

3 - Top Contributor (this special group that selected by):

Mod's team recommended.

Help reporting bad posts.

His/her answer selected as best answer.

Same as Regular group for Display name change, Search flood and Bypass flood control.

Can edit own content?: Yes.

Edit time restriction: Unlimited.

Can hide (delete) own content?: Yes. 

Plus:

Can close his poll.

Can lock and unlock own content.

 

Helpful Links

For account delete-removal

How to find threads that I created

 

Using the forum "Fluid" view option, that enable you to see the interesting forums you like most, to do that:

Then from the right box select the forums you like.

 

[darkassassin07 652]

There has to be a better way to get information to forum users than pinning 5-12+ posts to each active sub-forum....

 

Notifications, forum-wide mail, a newsletter... Anything?

 

Even if you were to pin a single moderated/locked post, which then contains links to relevant content/posts (such as the array of tutorials that are pinned all over the place). There's so many pinned posts right now that pinning something has become meaningless. I almost missed this one myself because of the muscle memory I've built; automatically scrolling past the wall of pinned posts to get to useful info, then pressing back and marking the sub as read when I'm done.

This place is a mess, and a pain to scroll through all the time. It's just getting worse and worse.

[GrimReaper 4739]

We are working within the confines/limitations of forum software. Some features are feasible, some others aren't. And some require custom modifications. Due to recent update, number of existing ones have been removed and are slowly being reintroduced again. 

But your comments have been noted and will be discussed internally. 

Thanks

[TMCsw 246]

48 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

No Self-Promotion Without Permission
Self-promotion, including linking to personal websites, businesses, or content, is only allowed with prior approval from Admins or Moderators.

Please clarify;

I need Prior approval to post a link to free or useful info/software?

[GrimReaper 4739]

Just now, TMCsw said:

Please clarify;

I need Prior approval to post a link to free or useful info/software?

No. That paragraph refers to "Self-promotion"; if you were posting links to your own business/website - then it would require it. 

[Abobader 3463]

36 minutes ago, darkassassin07 said:

There has to be a better way to get information to forum users than pinning 5-12+ posts to each active sub-forum....

That simply a footer together with themes/languages select, not pinning, we had that it for years but adding to the footer from a year or so now, but recently we re-write it to make it clear for all.

41 minutes ago, darkassassin07 said:

Notifications, forum-wide mail, a newsletter... Anything?

Again, it's now new matters to notify about, it Emby rules since we start this community.

43 minutes ago, darkassassin07 said:

Even if you were to pin a single moderated/locked post, which then contains links to relevant content/posts (such as the array of tutorials that are pinned all over the place). There's so many pinned posts right now that pinning something has become meaningless. I almost missed this one myself because of the muscle memory I've built; automatically scrolling past the wall of pinned posts to get to useful info, then pressing back and marking the sub as read when I'm done.

This place is a mess, and a pain to scroll through all the time. It's just getting worse and worse.

That your opinion, we over the years been adding many things to make browsing/bosting very clear and simple to our members.

To all, our mod's team here simply post a reminder about our rules that many do not care to read about, and this pinned thread will stay temporary for this matters, the footer always to make thing easy to find about the community or Emby services in general.

Thanks all.