What Hi-fi? Official Community Rules

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Official Community Rules​

Welcome to the What Hi-fi? forums!

Thanks so much for taking the time to hang out with us today. It’s incredibly important to us to have the kind of community that works together to keep things on track. After all, we’re in this together. With your help and support we can build something truly incredible!

Using these forums means you’ve read the rules and have agreed to be held to these standards.

Click here to learn some helpful forum tips and best practices.

• These forums are for the discussion of hi-fi equipment. Posts that derail from this, or attempt to steer the conversation to matters of religion, politics, or other unrelated topics may be removed.
• Do not harass, attack, or demean other forum users, including official staff. Disagreement is welcome, but different points of view can coexist without anyone resorting to personal attacks.
  • Accusations of corruption or bribery will be removed.
• Hate speech is not permitted. Posting hate speech will result in an immediate permanent ban.
• Don’t derail any forum discussions using vulgarity, spamming, bumping your own posts, going off topic, or using other means.
• Don’t use our forums as a tool to promote your own personal products or services. Trying to drive our readers to third party sites will result in such posts being edited or deleted.
• Promoting or describing any illegal or illicit activity is prohibited. We will not allow the discussion of cracking encryption, piracy, or any other illegal conduct in our forums.
• Do not impersonate others in these forums. This could be another user, an influencer, a staff member, or any other person/organization.
• Any posts that veer into off-topic areas and are not relevant to the published article will be removed.
• Linking to files which contain viruses or malware will result in a permanent ban.
• Do not discuss moderator action, or attempt to re-open removed or locked threads. Removed or locked threads were removed for a reason.
  • Email community@futurenet.com if you wish to appeal a suspension, or if you have questions about the forum rules.
• Spam posts will result in an immediate permanent ban.
• Misusing or abusing forum features such as the Report button, direct messages, quotes of other users, or any other tool will result in a permanent ban.
• Don’t create multiple accounts for the forum. Using secondary accounts to bump your posts, or create the illusion of an ongoing discussion is not allowed.
• Never publicly post personally identifying information, such as your email address or phone number, and do not ask others for their personal information.

Appealing a Time-out or Ban​

We will not allow public posts to discuss action taken by Moderators. If you wish to appeal any official warnings, time outs, or bans, please email community@futurenet.com.

So we can handle your appeal as quickly as possible, please include the following info whenever you contact our team.

• Username on the forums
• Include the phrase "What Hi-fi? Forum Appeal" in the email subject line for easier tracking.