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Welcome to the Windows/PC Software forum. There have been some updates to the Moderation and Guidelines for AnandTech forums which can be found in Personal Forum Issues in this thread. Please read these important guideline changes.
One of the major changes is in how moderation will be done going forward. Moderators have a title listing the forums they moderate. They are able to moderate in other forums, but are encouraged to do so only in extreme and obvious cases of a violation or when a thread needs to be moved. Moderators are expected to remain in good standing with the community and uphold all of our member and posting guidelines.
Senior Moderators, who will also be noted by title, have jurisdiction over all forums. In addition to normal moderation, Senior Moderators are responsible for making decisions concerning permanent bans, advising moderators on actions, reviewing member complaints about moderator activity, and generally making sure moderation at AnandTech is run fairly and efficiently.
In addition to the Senior Moderators, The moderator for the Windows/PC Software forum is mechbgon. mechbgon was nominated and voted upon by the Senior Moderators and Administrators and has accepted the position. We welcome mechbgon to the team, and hope you will too. Congrats are in order
Please note: These, and all other moderators should not be contacted directly for moderation issues. Those should go to the Moderator account though Private Messages, or posted in Personal Forum Issues.
mechBgon adds:
The usual issues in this section of the forum are:
One additional note: Now we've got sub-forums named "Windows / PC Software" and also "Operating Systems." To help clarify what goes where...
mechBgon
One of the major changes is in how moderation will be done going forward. Moderators have a title listing the forums they moderate. They are able to moderate in other forums, but are encouraged to do so only in extreme and obvious cases of a violation or when a thread needs to be moved. Moderators are expected to remain in good standing with the community and uphold all of our member and posting guidelines.
Senior Moderators, who will also be noted by title, have jurisdiction over all forums. In addition to normal moderation, Senior Moderators are responsible for making decisions concerning permanent bans, advising moderators on actions, reviewing member complaints about moderator activity, and generally making sure moderation at AnandTech is run fairly and efficiently.
In addition to the Senior Moderators, The moderator for the Windows/PC Software forum is mechbgon. mechbgon was nominated and voted upon by the Senior Moderators and Administrators and has accepted the position. We welcome mechbgon to the team, and hope you will too. Congrats are in order
Please note: These, and all other moderators should not be contacted directly for moderation issues. Those should go to the Moderator account though Private Messages, or posted in Personal Forum Issues.
mechBgon adds:
The usual issues in this section of the forum are:
- Cross-posting People sometimes cross-post the same topic to several parts of the Forums when they've got an urgent problem. Cross-posting is frustrating for the people who are trying to help you, so give your first thread a fair chance, by which I mean at least a day or two. There are helpful Forum members who look in all the sections of the Forums that you'd be likely to post in. Patience, grasshoppah Cross-posting will result in the locking of excess threads.
- Posting in the incorrect section of the Forums Try to post in the section of the Forums that fits the nature of your thread the best. I know that a lot of tolerance is called for, since {software/Windows/hardware/security} problems can be mystifying, and the real cause may not be apparent at first. Just make a best effort, and I'll try to only invoke the Thread-Relocation Wormhole when there's clearly a more suitable home for your thread
Also, expect a learning curve as we try to establish the correct "flavor" of the different areas of the Forums, now that they've been diversified quite a bit. Don't freak out if your thread gets moved, it's not a big deal.
- Warez, piracy, or circumventing security on someone else's computer and/or network These aren't appropriate topics at the AnandTech Forums. If you want to discuss what's the best torrent client, how to eliminate duplicate MP3s, how to transcode your media files, etc, then topics of that nature are fine.
But if you're looking for help to defeat your school's or employer's network restrictions, to commit piracy or licensing fraud, or to run unauthorized software on someone else's computer, that's stepping across the line, as per #3 of the AnandTech Forum Guidelines. Please use discretion.
One additional note: Now we've got sub-forums named "Windows / PC Software" and also "Operating Systems." To help clarify what goes where...
- If your topic is about Windows itself, it goes in Operating Systems (example: help, I need to get into a folder on a transplanted hard drive, but Windows says "Access Denied!").
- If your topic is about software that runs on Windows, then it probably belongs here in Windows / PC Software (example: help, I cannot get Microsoft Word to do a mail merge!)
mechBgon
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