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Please read </font><a href="http://www.edaboard.com/announcements31.html" target="_blank"><font color="#1155cc"><u>this</u></font></a><font color="#000000"> tutorial that explains how to apply them.</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Select the proper section and don’t post duplicates</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">Please post your question in the proper forum section, this will help you get replies faster. If your question can fit in more than one category then select the section that seems more appropriate. If you're not sure where to post, ask a moderator first.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">Duplicates or cross posting are not allowed, avoid creating multiple threads with similar questions, ask all related questions in one thread.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">There are specific sections for education, jobs and business promotion so use them correctly and don’t post content that belongs in these sections to any other categories.</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Use descriptive titles</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">Use proper descriptive titles related to the content of your post without adding useless prefix like "urgent" or "help me" or excessive punctuation like "...." or "!!!!" etc. Give a short summary of your problem IN THE SUBJECT . Titles like the following are considered completely useless and will result in the deletion of the thread and an infraction:</font><br /> <ul><li style=""><font color="#000000">Help me</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">You must know the answer</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">Very urgent</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">I have a question</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">Stupid question</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">Newbie needs help</font> </li></ul><br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Blog content</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">Blogs are not the place to advertise your website or business neither ask questions. Post there only articles or own ideas that you want show to others.</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Uploaded files</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">Don’t upload files that are widely available in the internet and can be found easily like datasheets or application notes, this is a waste of valuable bandwidth, post a link instead.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">Also format your image attachments properly, use an image resolution that is easily readable, not too big or too small and use gif, png, or jpeg extension to reduce the size of the file.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">Avoid using bmp image format, it occupies a huge size compared to the formats described above and can’t be shown directly in a browser which is an additional inconvenience.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">If your code is long prefer to use a zip file to attach it in the post instead of directly posting it.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">Don’t upload your files to external servers and post the links, these files will be deleted after a while and the thread will become useless, attach your files in the post. Moderators </font><font color="#000000"><b>will delete</b></font><font color="#000000"> any posts that includes files uploaded to file sharing servers like Rapidshare, 4shared etc. Try to uploads compressed formats that are easily opened by different operating systems, zip is preferred over rar or 7zip and note that the attachments should never be password protected.</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Do not share or request copyright material</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">Do not upload, attach, or otherwise post any copyrighted material which you are not free to redistribute (subject to the licensing terms of the specific item). If you have a question about having permission to post or attach a specific item, please ask a moderator. We do not condone nor accept posts pertaining to illegal activities such as hacking, cracking, *****, or spam.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">IEEE papers are also copyrighted and as such not allowed unless you have the author permission or are freely available, please read </font><a href="http://www.edaboard.com/thread168924.html" target="_blank"><font color="#1155cc"><u>this</u></font></a><font color="#000000">.</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Do not create multiple accounts</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">Don’t create multiple accounts in order to bump your thread or give helpful ratings to yourself or your friends. Members found to have duplicate accounts will be banned</font><font color="#000000"><b>.</b></font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Thread bumping is not allowed</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">Don't bump your thread with useless followups like “please help” or “no one” etc. and don’t be in a hurry to get a reply, be patient. If you have any additional info to provide (like results gathered after the posted question or additional info) then you are welcome to post them in order to explain better your problem.</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Do not spam or self-promote in the forums</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">These forums define spam as unsolicited advertisement for goods, services and/or other web sites or posts with little, no or completely unrelated content.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">Do not spam the forums with links to your site or product, or try to self-promote your website, business or forums etc. Doing so is a waste of time, your account will be banned permanently and your posts will be deleted.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">Spamming also includes sending private messages to a large number of different users.</font><br /> <font color="#000000"> If you intend to reply to a question with a content existing in your blog then you should include the content in the actual reply and provide an optional link to the article but not just a bare link. Do not search the forum for convenient question which match a content in your blog so that you can post a link and self-promote </font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Advertising is intended for Electronics Design related products only</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">Advertising is currently only allowed in the </font><a href="http://www.edaboard.com/forum43.html" target="_blank"><font color="#1155cc"><u>Business, Promotions, Advertising</u></font></a><font color="#000000"> section, it is not allowed in Albums, Groups, Biography, Location, Interests or any other place.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">Please note that you shouldn't post duplicate advertisements every few days.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">Do not post advertisements related to gadgets, personal computers, nutrition, medicine, fitness, web design etc.</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Do not contact users asking for help or to advertise </b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">Don't make requests for help in private using personal messages, create a thread in the forum so that other members can benefit from the posted answers.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">DO NOT ever send private messages to ANY user offering to sell services or products UNLESS the user ASKS you to contact them.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">If any user see this behaviour of "stealth" advertising / spam, please report the post.</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Remain respectful of other users, moderators and administrators at all times</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">All posts should be professional and courteous. You have every right to disagree with your fellow community members and explain your perspective, however, you are not free to attack, degrade, insult, or otherwise belittle them or the quality of this community. It does not matter what title or power you hold in these forums, you are expected to obey this rule. Doing otherwise will get your account banned temporarily, or permanently if the situation becomes severe enough (this will be left to the discretion of the moderation team).</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Misusing report functionality</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">The report post functionality is intended to report spam, advertising messages and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. Don't use it without a reason or when you want to post messages, the report is not a reply button. Misuse of report will result in an warning or infraction.</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Don't intrude in threads with different subject or reopen very old threads</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">Follow up questions should be related to the thread content, don’t intrude in an existing thread to ask a question with a subject unrelated to the thread content, create a new thread instead.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">Avoid reopening very old threads in order to reply or post a similar question, again it is more preferable to create a new thread.</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Post content described below is not allowed</b></font><br /> <ul><li style=""><font color="#000000">Posting in any language other than English in any of the forum sections (forum, blogs, groups, signatures, etc).</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">Posting in CAPITAL letters, huge fonts (equivalent of shouting)..</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">“Thank you” posts are considered useless, If you want to thank a user then click the helpful hand icon found under the post or donate points.</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">h**p://www style links or any other form that is not clickable, use normal http://www links instead.</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">Technical abbreviations unless they are universally understood, they will confuse members and make it hard for them to understand what you mean.</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">SMS abbreviations, they make posts unreadable and prevent many users that don’t know English well enough to understand them. Type complete words.</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">Intentionally posting incorrect or flagrantly dangerous information</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">Meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such (e.g “I agree”).</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations.</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">Excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or coloured text, etc</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">Excessive punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">Threads requesting to receive reply in private email</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">Offering to provide help as a paid service in non advertising section.</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">Discussions of politics, ethnicity, religion, or other divisive issues in any area.</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">Anything which is offensive, hateful, racist, sexist, discriminatory, obscene, vulgar or in violation of local or international laws.</font></li><li style=""><font color="#000000">Insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts.</font> </li></ul><br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Signatures</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">Should BE polite and not offensive. Should be in English language. Should NOT have advertisements, link to other web site, email or images.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">Size limits: 4 lines. Font sizes above 2 are not allowed. (Blank lines count as lines.)</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Groups</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">Group owners are responsible to apply the forum rules to the group sections and report any posts or behaviour that is against the rules.</font><br /> <br /> <font size="5"><b><font color="#000000"><b>FAQ</b></font></b></font><br /> <br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>What happens if I see a thread/post which has broken a rule?</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">Please report the thread/post to the moderators using the report link which appears in the right-hand corner under each post. This report will be sent to all moderators of that particular forum who will respond to the incident as quickly as possible.</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>I see something that is definitely spam. Should I do anything?</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">If you see someone posting advertisements which are irrelevant to the thread topic or simply any other form of spamming, please report the post by clicking the "Report post" button.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">Please </font><font color="#000000"><b>Do Not</b></font><font color="#000000"> post any replies to that message such as "Go away, idiot," or "You're stupid.", this only bumps the thread back to the top of the forum listing, and makes the spammer's post(s) visible for a longer period of time. Once you've reported the post or thread, a moderator will soon take care of it as needed.</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>What happens if I break a rule?</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">If you break a rule, then you will either be warned or banned. A ban of your user account may either be temporary or permanent. While a ban will normally involve only a ban of your user account, in extreme circumstances, it is possible to block your IP address from the forums.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">The administrators and moderators also have the right to edit, delete, move or close and thread or post as they see necessary, without prior warning.</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Editing and Deleting Your Posts</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">The administrators have decided to prevent users from deleting their own posts. In the past, deleting the first post of a thread would delete the entire thread, making it impossible for others to be able to read and learn from the information posted. There is also a limited amount of time in which you are allowed to edit your post, after that the post can’t be edited.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">As a rule we do not remove or delete content from our forums so before you post consider this rule. If you don’t want to share a schematic or code then don’t post it but don’t expect to get help and then delete your post, users in the forum spend valuable time in order to reply in your post so this info should remain available for users that may have a similar question in the future.</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Why do some usernames appear in blue or red text?</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">Any user who is an administrator or moderator will have their username appear in a bold, red font. This addition has been made to the forum to help make it obvious for new users to see who is in charge. A full list of the moderators and the forums they moderate is available</font><a href="http://www.edaboard.com/showgroups.php" target="_blank"><font color="#1155cc"><u> here</u></font></a><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>What are the consequences of warnings and infractions</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">Warnings serve as a reminder to you of the forum's rules which you are expected to understand and follow. When you break a rule then you receive a warning and if you keep breaking the rule then you get infraction points. </font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>What are sticky threads?</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">'Sticky' threads are created by moderators or administrators, and remain 'stuck' to the top of the listing, even if they haven't had any posts recently. Their purpose is to keep important information visible and accessible at all times.</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>I get a "no permission error", what do I do?</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">This happens as you did not complete the registration process. To complete the registration you must use the activation link in the e-mail sent to you. This is to confirm the true identity of you. If you have not received a registration e-mail, look in the spam folder as sometimes the email is flagged as spam. If the e-mail has not been flagged as spam then please</font><a href="http://www.edaboard.com/register.php?do=requestemail" target="_blank"><font color="#1155cc"><u> request another activation e-mail</u></font></a><font color="#000000">.</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>I forgot my password. What can I do?</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">If you forget your password, you can click on the '</font><a href="http://www.edaboard.com/login.php?do=lostpw" target="_blank"><font color="#1155cc"><u>Forgotten Your Password</u></font></a><font color="#000000">' link. This will appear on any page that requires you to fill in your password.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">This link brings up a page where you should enter your registered email address. An email will be sent to that address shortly, with instructions for resetting your password.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">Since passwords are encrypted, there is no way to resend your original password. This option provides you with the ability to reset your password.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">You must be able to receive emails to your registered email address for this to work. You may need to check your spam filters and folder if you do not see this email in a few minutes.</font><br /> <br /> <br /> <font size="5"><b><font color="#000000"><b>Guidelines</b></font></b></font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>USE SEARCH FIRST!</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">There is a pretty good chance that unless you have some really odd or unique problem that it has been addressed on this forum before (or even hundreds of times before for some issues).</font><br /> <font color="#000000">Use the forum's search feature first to see if there are already some good threads on the subject. It's easy to search - just click the "Search" button at the top left of the page.</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Be descriptive</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">Take the time to explain the problem you are facing properly and attach in the post any available code, schematic or other related content.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">Posting a huge code doesn’t help solve the problem, isolate the part where the problem is and provide info about the error message you get and the line number where it occurs.</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Post content</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">Links to external sites can often become "dead" or broken when these external sites change their format or simply cease to exist, unfortunately there are already several cases of old threads that have become useless this way. The following measures will ensure the viability of the post, regardless of the state of external sites.</font><br /> <font color="#000000">When possible all posts should contain source code, simulation files, schematics, photos, etc with the appropriate credit for the source of these materials given. If the source code consists of multiple files or is simply too lengthy to be posted directly, it should be compressed and uploaded to the forum as an attachment.</font><br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Only you know what "doesn't work" means</b></font><br /> <font color="#000000">Please tell us what your circuit or code is supposed to do and why it "doesn't work".When you come in and say "it doesn't work" or just "it has errors", that means NOTHING. 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