DVXuser.com Forum Posting Guidelines
DVXuser.com - The Online Community for Filmmaking - is a place for everyone from beginner to seasoned professional to share knowledge, showcase work, and seek advice on both artistic and technical levels. From narrative shorts and features to commercial work to documentary to series work, and beyond, we encourage well-reasoned questions that give the community a chance to explore all aspects of production, and to learn and grow in their own skills and abilities. These guidelines will help make the experience here smoother and more productive.
Please keep in mind, this is a worldwide community, and English is not the native tongue of some of our members. Please exercise patience and extend the benefit of the doubt to those who are taking the effort to communicate in English just to participate on the site.
CONDUCT (The Eight P’s)
These serve as the core of our Forum Guidelines.
1. No Politics
We've tried it and it doesn't work. There are many other sites where you can discuss politics, just not this one.
'Politics' includes not only directly political content, but any controversial topics, current affairs, or other news-related issues. If you see something non-film-making related reported in the media, and you know there are strong feelings about it on either side of the issue, please do not bring it up here. The 'no politics' rule also extends to discussing the political content of films and television shows, or to videos with political content, even if posted for a video-related purpose. The Mod staff may grant very limited, specific exceptions in cases of exceptional film-related interest, but only with prior approval, and any such thread will be heavily moderated. Moderators will make the final decision as to whether or not a specific post belongs on this site.
2. No Pornography
Please don’t post any images or links to images with explicit sexual content -- Nudity in still images is not acceptable. Links to films that contain nudity are acceptable as long as the post is appropriately labeled for content. Links to any pornographic content are unacceptable. In addition, discussion of pornographic films, websites, the business of producing it, the morals of it, etc are not welcome here.
3. No Personal Attacks
Personal insults of any sort are not tolerated. If you feel another user’s post is inappropriate, please report the post or contact a moderator. Participating in a flame war is uncool even if someone else started it—and just like mom and dad, we’ll give you both timeouts.
4. No Proselytizing
Please do not discuss religion. Just like politics, we've tried it and it doesn't work. There are many other sites where you can discuss religion, just not this one.
5. No Piracy
We’re a community of content creators, so don't post about how to rip off other content creators or endorsing it or posting bittorrent links. No cracks, hacks, warez, any of that. It's illegal, it's immoral, and it's not welcome here.
6. No Profiteering
Please don’t try selling your products here. There are plenty of places online to sell your wares. This isn’t one of them.
7. No Poaching
If you have something to contribute to the community, please contribute it here, don't just say, "Hey, everyone, look what's going on over on my own site." That's just a lame way of trying to build your own site up by poaching our members, and it's just not cool. Be a contributor, not a “taker”.
8. No Pi$$ing In The Pool
Trolling, Baiting, Complaining and beating dead horses is like urinating in the pool -- it may make you feel good, but it kind of ruins it for everyone else. This includes complaints about things which happen on other message boards/websites -- it has nothing to do with DVXuser and we have no reason to air it here. Starting a new thread to continue an argument from a closed thread, or to complain about the thread being closed, falls under this category.
USER ACCOUNTS:
POSTING:
First and foremost, respect your fellow filmmakers. Regardless of age, experience, or opinion, you should always show respect to fellow users. Keep in mind, this is a worldwide community, and English is not the native tongue of some of our members. Please exercise patience and extend the benefit of the doubt to those who are taking the effort to communicate in English just to participate on the site.
Before you ask a question, please do a search. We have an enormous amount of content and there’s a good chance that your question has been asked before—probably several times. Take some time to look over the different topics and find the ONE forum that best suits your question. Posting in inappropriate forums makes extra work for the moderators and you may find your post moved or deleted if you didn’t post it in the correct forum. Also, no crossposting--please only post your question in a single forum.
Lastly, please keep threads on topic. Off topic posts make searching more difficult for other members and dilute the useful information on the site. If your post has no relevance to the original thread topic it may be deleted. Not that we don't find some of these topics interesting, we do--but they are not appropriate for this filmmaking forum.
Violating DVXuser Policy:
The normal procedure will be:
1. Warning by Private Message [PM]
2. Temporary ban if the warning is ignored
3. Permanent ban for continuing problems.
(However, if you go out of your way to violate the rules, we can and will skip straight to #3)
Self-moderation:
For the most part, the users here practice self-moderation.
Take a moment to think before you post.
If you’re unsure of something, feel free to PM a moderator and ask.
If you’re a newbie, you’re welcome here, but you may want to spend a week or two reading posts and seeing how things work before you dive right in.
Thanks for following the guidelines and welcome to the forum!
DVXuser.com - The Online Community for Filmmaking - is a place for everyone from beginner to seasoned professional to share knowledge, showcase work, and seek advice on both artistic and technical levels. From narrative shorts and features to commercial work to documentary to series work, and beyond, we encourage well-reasoned questions that give the community a chance to explore all aspects of production, and to learn and grow in their own skills and abilities. These guidelines will help make the experience here smoother and more productive.
Please keep in mind, this is a worldwide community, and English is not the native tongue of some of our members. Please exercise patience and extend the benefit of the doubt to those who are taking the effort to communicate in English just to participate on the site.
CONDUCT (The Eight P’s)
These serve as the core of our Forum Guidelines.
1. No Politics
We've tried it and it doesn't work. There are many other sites where you can discuss politics, just not this one.
'Politics' includes not only directly political content, but any controversial topics, current affairs, or other news-related issues. If you see something non-film-making related reported in the media, and you know there are strong feelings about it on either side of the issue, please do not bring it up here. The 'no politics' rule also extends to discussing the political content of films and television shows, or to videos with political content, even if posted for a video-related purpose. The Mod staff may grant very limited, specific exceptions in cases of exceptional film-related interest, but only with prior approval, and any such thread will be heavily moderated. Moderators will make the final decision as to whether or not a specific post belongs on this site.
2. No Pornography
Please don’t post any images or links to images with explicit sexual content -- Nudity in still images is not acceptable. Links to films that contain nudity are acceptable as long as the post is appropriately labeled for content. Links to any pornographic content are unacceptable. In addition, discussion of pornographic films, websites, the business of producing it, the morals of it, etc are not welcome here.
3. No Personal Attacks
Personal insults of any sort are not tolerated. If you feel another user’s post is inappropriate, please report the post or contact a moderator. Participating in a flame war is uncool even if someone else started it—and just like mom and dad, we’ll give you both timeouts.
4. No Proselytizing
Please do not discuss religion. Just like politics, we've tried it and it doesn't work. There are many other sites where you can discuss religion, just not this one.
5. No Piracy
We’re a community of content creators, so don't post about how to rip off other content creators or endorsing it or posting bittorrent links. No cracks, hacks, warez, any of that. It's illegal, it's immoral, and it's not welcome here.
6. No Profiteering
Please don’t try selling your products here. There are plenty of places online to sell your wares. This isn’t one of them.
7. No Poaching
If you have something to contribute to the community, please contribute it here, don't just say, "Hey, everyone, look what's going on over on my own site." That's just a lame way of trying to build your own site up by poaching our members, and it's just not cool. Be a contributor, not a “taker”.
8. No Pi$$ing In The Pool
Trolling, Baiting, Complaining and beating dead horses is like urinating in the pool -- it may make you feel good, but it kind of ruins it for everyone else. This includes complaints about things which happen on other message boards/websites -- it has nothing to do with DVXuser and we have no reason to air it here. Starting a new thread to continue an argument from a closed thread, or to complain about the thread being closed, falls under this category.
USER ACCOUNTS:
- Only one user account is permitted per person. Duplicate accounts will be closed without warning.
- We encourage members to use their real names. While not a requirement, this helps battle that anonymity of the Internet, and helps create a more solid community.
- Commercial usernames are not permitted.
- Usernames must be inline with regular posting guidelines: nothing political, religious, profane, or otherwise offensive. Any accounts created with usernames that violate these guidelines may be rejected, and the user asked to select a new and appropriate username.
- Avatars and profile banners must also adhere to posting guidelines. No commercial, political, religious, or otherwise offensive images are allowed. Any avatar or profile banner that violates these guidelines will be deleted without warning.
- User profiles allow for bio information, web links, etc. Again, these must all adhere to the posting guidelines, and any information posted that violates these guidelines will be removed without warning.
- Profile signatures may contain links to social media and websites, provided these are strictly for your production pages. If you’re selling something on those sites (other than your production work), the links will not be permitted.
- In any possible cases of dispute as to what's unacceptable, in the interest of maintaining a positive, cohesive community, the moderators will make the final determination of whether or not something fits within our guidelines. If you're not sure, please ask.
POSTING:
First and foremost, respect your fellow filmmakers. Regardless of age, experience, or opinion, you should always show respect to fellow users. Keep in mind, this is a worldwide community, and English is not the native tongue of some of our members. Please exercise patience and extend the benefit of the doubt to those who are taking the effort to communicate in English just to participate on the site.
Before you ask a question, please do a search. We have an enormous amount of content and there’s a good chance that your question has been asked before—probably several times. Take some time to look over the different topics and find the ONE forum that best suits your question. Posting in inappropriate forums makes extra work for the moderators and you may find your post moved or deleted if you didn’t post it in the correct forum. Also, no crossposting--please only post your question in a single forum.
Lastly, please keep threads on topic. Off topic posts make searching more difficult for other members and dilute the useful information on the site. If your post has no relevance to the original thread topic it may be deleted. Not that we don't find some of these topics interesting, we do--but they are not appropriate for this filmmaking forum.
Violating DVXuser Policy:
The normal procedure will be:
1. Warning by Private Message [PM]
2. Temporary ban if the warning is ignored
3. Permanent ban for continuing problems.
(However, if you go out of your way to violate the rules, we can and will skip straight to #3)
Self-moderation:
For the most part, the users here practice self-moderation.
Take a moment to think before you post.
If you’re unsure of something, feel free to PM a moderator and ask.
If you’re a newbie, you’re welcome here, but you may want to spend a week or two reading posts and seeing how things work before you dive right in.
Thanks for following the guidelines and welcome to the forum!