This is a Civilized Place for Public Discussion

Please treat this discussion forum with the same respect you would a public park. We, too, are a shared community resource — a place to share skills, knowledge and interests through ongoing conversation.

These are not hard and fast rules, merely aids to the human judgment of our community. Use these guidelines to keep this a clean, well-lighted place for civilized public discourse.

Improve the Discussion

Help us make this a great place for discussion by always working to improve the discussion in some way, however small. If you are not sure your post adds to the conversation, think over what you want to say and try again later.

这里讨论的话题对我们很重要,我们希望你们表现得好像它们对你们也很重要一样。尊重讨论的话题和人们,即使你不同意其中的一些观点。

One way to improve the discussion is by discovering ones that are already happening. Please spend some time browsing the topics here before replying or starting your own, and you’ll have a better chance of meeting others who share your interests.

Be Agreeable, Even When You Disagree

You may wish to respond to something by disagreeing with it. That’s fine. But, remember tocriticize ideas, not people. Please avoid:

  • Name-calling.
  • 人身攻击。
  • Responding to a post’s tone instead of its actual content.
  • Knee-jerk contradiction.

Instead, provide reasoned counter-arguments that improve the conversation.

Your Participation Counts

The conversations we have here set the tone for everyone. Help us influence the future of this community by choosing to engage in discussions that make this forum an interesting place to be — and avoiding those that do not.

话语提供了一些工具,使社区能够集体识别最好(和最差)的贡献:收藏夹、书签、喜欢、旗帜、回复、编辑,等等。使用这些工具来改善你自己的体验,也改善其他人的体验。

让我们努力让我们的公园比我们发现时更好。

If You See a Problem, Flag It

Moderators have special authority; they are responsible for this forum. But so are you. With your help, moderators can be community facilitators, not just janitors or police.

当你看到不好的行为时,不要回应。It encourages the bad behavior by acknowledging it, consumes your energy, and wastes everyone’s time.Just flag it. If enough flags accrue, action will be taken, either automatically or by moderator intervention.

In order to maintain our community, moderators reserve the right to remove any content and any user account for any reason at any time. Moderators do not preview new posts in any way; the moderators and site operators take no responsibility for any content posted by the community.

Always Be Civil

Nothing sabotages a healthy conversation like rudeness:

  • Be civil. Don’t post anything that a reasonable person would consider offensive, abusive, or hate speech.
  • Keep it clean. Don’t post anything obscene or sexually explicit.
  • 互相尊重。不要骚扰或悲伤任何人,模仿别人,或暴露他们的私人信息。
  • Respect our forum. Don’t post spam or otherwise vandalize the forum.

These are not concrete terms with precise definitions — avoid even theappearanceof any of these things. If you’re unsure, ask yourself how you would feel if your post was featured on the front page of the New York Times.

这是一个公共论坛,搜索引擎将这些讨论编入索引。为家人和朋友保持语言、链接和图像的安全。

Keep It Tidy

努力把东西放在正确的地方,这样我们可以花更多的时间讨论,少些清理。So:

  • 不要从错误的类别开始话题。
  • Don’t cross-post the same thing in multiple topics.
  • 不要发布无内容的回复。
  • 不要中途改变话题而转移话题。
  • 不要在你的帖子上签名——每个帖子都附有你的个人资料。

Rather than posting “+1” or “Agreed”, use the Like button. Rather than taking an existing topic in a radically different direction, use Reply as a New Topic.

Post Only Your Own Stuff

未经允许,您不能发布任何属于其他人的数字内容。您不得发布窃取他人知识产权(软件、视频、音频、图像)或违反任何其他法律的描述、链接或方法。

Terms of Service

是的,法律术语很无聊,但我们必须保护自己——也就是你和你的数据——不受不友好人士的伤害。We have aTerms of Servicedescribing your (and our) behavior and rights related to content, privacy, and laws. To use this service, you must agree to abide by ourTOS.