Forum Do's and Don'ts

Forum Do’s and Don’ts

Do:

• Search for posts relevant to your problem.

• Read the Zen Cart documentation to see if the answer is there.

• Make the headline for your post relevant to your problem.

• Tell us about your host and versions of PHP and MySQL so that we can diagnose more easily. How to find your Zen Cart, PHP and MySQL version.

• Help others where you can. The best way to learn a subject is to teach someone else.

Don’t:

• Post links to commercial services.

• Bump your post. If you have not gotten an answer in a reasonable amount of time. Post a reply to your own existing post with more details of what you have and haven’t done to attempt to cure the problem or find answers to your questions. Try to explain it in a different way if maybe it’s unclear.

• Private Message the Support Team trying to get their attention for your post. The whole idea of the forum is education and a problem solved privately benefits no one except you.

• Hijack a thread: If a thread is asking one question and you want to ask a different one, just create a new thread in the relevant forum; don’t hijack the threads. (The exception is support threads for plugins.)

• Cross Post. Cross Posting is posting the same message in multiple threads or posting links to threads on other boards. It’s seen as spam.

• Use banners or other images in your signature line. You will be asked to remove them. See signature guidelines.

• Hold independent contests or raffles.

• Use barcodes as avatars.