Alex wrote:Dear all,
Following are a few words which are supposed to help us all when using the
Ableton forum and making it as pleasant as possible.
There is so much (partially overlapping, partially also contrary)
information on the so-called Netiquette available on the Internet that
at this point, we would like to only refer to some resources. For those who would
like to know some more detail on the world of
netiquette might want to start with this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette <----- This is the crux of it. (TD's edit here)
Here, we would rather like to emphasize the 'social' part of the so- called
Netiquette.
Please try to always remember that there are also humans on the other end of
the 'line'.
This is why you might want to not be using too much slang-vocabulary as
the forum-community includes people from a lot of different countries and
slang can often be either not understood at all or misinterpreted.
Just the same, especially new members of the forum require help and
respectively a friendly and co-operative behavior. Therefore we would like
you to be friendly, helpful and respectful.
In this forum we trust in the ability of the
Ableton-community to manage the forum themselves so that there will be no need
of any kind of censorship.
This means that each forum-user can contribute to the forum being found to
be a pleasant place by giving a good example him- or herself. Because
somebody who is treated in a friendly manner is probably much rather willing
and motivated to treat others friendly as well.
In general every forum member is responsible for their own postings in terms of
illegal or copyrighted content according to the German law.
In certain cases we are required by German legislation to change, or in
extreme cases delete postings, but according to our experience so far this
has been the absolute exception.