Posting DO's and DON'Ts for the programming forum

I've lately seen a lot of requests for services etc in the programming forum.

The idea of this forum is not to ask for paid services, but to ask for help with specific questions.

I'm not a moderator, but in the spirit of Istvan's post in the webdesign forum

http://www.warriorforum.com/website-...dos-donts.html

(which is again, in the spirit of Allen's post), I blatantly copied and adapted Istvan's guidelines to the programing forum and suggest to make them sticky - all credits go to Istvan!

Cheers,
Rob

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You SHOULD:

a) offer your knowledge and expertise in the area of programming
b) give help for free and in public; i.e. here in the forum (exception could be when the original poster doesn't want to reveal the site's address and gives you the info in private)
c) ask questions related to programming, including questions related to PHP, Java, JavaScript, jquery, .asp, ruby on rails....


You Should NOT:
1. pimp your paid services when replying to questions (your post will be deleted)
2. reply to a question just to point to your sig file with a related paid service (post will be deleted)
3. start "articles" about programming (post in the appropriate section: Articles; otherwise will be deleted)
4. ask the original poster to contact you in private for a paid offer (will be deleted)
5. make nonsense one-liner spam posts (they will be deleted)
6. dig up weeks/months old threads to add your "nice job" line

Once again: DON'T DO any of those listed above #1-6


DO NOT OFFER OR ASK FOR PAID SERVICES IN THIS FORUM!


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A few common sense advice:

- There are legitimate sections in the Warrior Forum where you can promote your services. Use them!
- If a question has already been answered by several members, don't post the same answer again!
- Ask concrete, targeted questions about the issue you are struggling with! (Don't start questions like "What is programming" or "Which programming language to start with")

Articles, self-promotion and posts not contributing to the topic will be deleted. If you spam you may risk ALL your posts getting deleted!

Please, help to make this specialized sub-forum a place for genuine help!