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LowEndTalk.com is aimed to be a discussion forum for a complete genre of topics surrounding low-end servers/hosting and what you can achieve with them.
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LowEndTalk Members Of Staff
The “Golden Rule” of LET
Bannable / “kill -9” Offenses
Things Everyone Hates and Things We Do Not Allow
Admins & Moderators Are People Too
LET is White Hat
One Account Per Person
LET is Multithreaded
LET Does Not Have Subtitles
LET is R-Rated
LET is a Community
LET is Eternal
Warnings
Provider Tag Suspension
Politics
Commercial IP-related Posts
Giveaways & Freebies
Provider Offers
LowEndTalk Members Of Staff
Administrators:
@trewq / @jbiloh / @FAT32
Moderators:
@hawc / @Jord / @netomx / @angstrom / @DP
To contact the members of staff or for LowEndTalk/LowEndBox-related matters, please use our Help Desk.
For LowEndTalk’s Selling Rules, please refer to this post.
The “Golden Rule” of LET
Don’t be a dick.
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” – Don’t do things that decades of netiquette have shown to be offensive. Don’t be “That Guy”. Don’t break the rules. When in doubt, just don’t.
There will always be new ways to cause trouble for people within a community, and they can’t all be listed one by one. Intent isn’t always possible to judge, and it isn’t always relative. The administrators and the moderators are the judges, respect their requests when you are told that you have stepped out of line.
Bannable / “kill -9” Offenses
Overt racism, religious intolerance, etc. All that stuff that is in every forum TOS on the planet. If most people would think it’s hate speech, it’s likely the mods will, too, and besides…what does that have to do with the low end vps world? False cries of racism to derail threads will meet the same fate as racist remarks.
Threats, harassment, doxxing, supporting terrorist activities, making public your wish for people here to die, motivating people to commit harm to themselves, etc. You’re being a dick.
Obvious spam. We all know it when we see it.
Ban evasion.
Being a dick.
Shilling.
Posting offers or sending PMs to other community members offering your services while not having a Patron Provider or Host Rep tag. Further information on LowEndTalk’s Selling Rules can be found here.
Use of bots or scripts for posting. All activities, including posts, thread creation, PMs, etc., must be human in nature. Members found engaging in forum-related activities using bots, scripts, or any form of automation will be banned.
Things Everyone Hates and Things We Do Not Allow
Posting multiple threads on the same topic.
If you’ve started a discussion or posted a comment, please do not delete the content afterward, only to replace it with messages like “delete”, “delete please”, or anything along those lines. If you’ve made a mistake, it’s best to retain (and strikethrough) the original post/comment, and simply add a reason/note, e.g., “EDIT: Request fulfilled”, “EDIT: Posted in the wrong thread/category”, or “EDIT: Unintended double post” etc.
Bumping threads because you’re impatient.
Answering every thread with your affiliate code(s)/link(s).
Hidden affiliate links. All affiliate links must be made obvious. Affiliate link(s) must be clearly marked as an affiliate link with a non-affiliate link provided, in the same size. Affiliate links are a privilege for helpful, contributing community members. If you signed up just to spam, expect a ban. If your only posts are affiliate links, expect a ban. This includes posting links to your blog that only contains affiliate links, URL shorteners, etc.
The Dark Arts of Thread Necromancy. Make sure the thread you’re replying to is still relevant.
Posting about things other than low-end servers and/or technology in places other than Offtopic. The category is there for a reason.
Signatures longer than most of your posts that fill significant portions of our screens. It should not be more than two lines, nor should it be distracting.
Making your thread titles super flashy. This ain’t WHT.
Posting threads asking for members to stress test or throughput test an IP, URL, or any other network resource(s). The potential for DDoS abuse is too great to allow such threads.
Posts that violate LowEndTalk’s rules may be closed or removed, and warnings may be issued at the discretion of the moderators. Repeated or serious violations may lead to further actions.
One Account Per Person
You’re only allowed one (1) account.
If you are found to have multiple accounts, admins/mods will close others or close them all depending on what they think is best. If this seems arbitrary to you, (1) it’s because it is, (2) it’s because mods’ time is valuable, and (3) you can avoid issues by choosing which one you’re going to use before mods do.
Admins & Moderators Are People Too
You’ll be expected to treat us like human beings. We are not robots that experience no emotions. We are not contracted third parties. We are humans and members of this community.
If you believe that one of us has acted out of turn and made an improper decision, you can request additional information or review via our Help Desk. Please understand that “request” does not mean you are entitled to either. We may approve or deny any request without stated reason. If that flares up your paranoia, maybe this community is not a good fit for you.
LET is White Hat
We do not allow discussions of how to commit illegal activities such as DDoS attacks, spamming, hacking, etc. Threads on these subjects will be closed and removed. Discussion of defense against these acts are welcome.
Just to be clear – that list of subjects includes traffic exchange, residential proxies, CPA/CPL (survey) fraud, game bots, traffic bots, any similar types of unfriendly bots, botnets, subnets so you can barrage sneaker companies in search of the latest tennis shoes, as well as anything that might cause headaches for a hosting provider or is intended to intentionally violate others’ terms. To be very clear, this is not an exhaustive list. You know what is shady, greyhat, blackhat, etc. Buying likes, buying views, selling or buying proxies, shoebots, ATC, Supreme, any kind of botting or referral fraud, anything intended to violate others terms of service are all included. Same goes for asking for shady or blackhat services like IP resources or VPSes without providing justification or legitimate reasoning, just don’t do it. Provider lives matter. You will be permanently banned along with any accounts related to you, no appeals, no warnings if you ask for or provide proxies, sneaker bots, sneaker/streetwear proxies, proxies of any kind, any form of botting.
LET is Multithreaded
It’s true – LowEndTalk has full multithreading support! If you find your comment is more about another comment than about the thread’s title, please fork the thread by starting one of your own.
There is absolutely no performance penalty for forking. Please fork your brains out rather than derailing threads.
LET Does Not Have Subtitles
Our language of discussion is English. This is solely because the moderators all speak English and we can’t moderate non-English text, and non-moderatable posts obviously have a huge potential for problems. Please post in English. Muchos danke, mon amie!
LET is R-Rated
We’ve already used the word “dick” and made a fork joke (nyuck, nyuck) so obviously this isn’t Nickelodeon. However, we’re not X-rated so please no full frontal tentacle hentai animated gifs, etc.
LET is a Community
We routinely critique new offers down to the bitter penny, debate this provider vs. that, trade raw opinions, and share ways to navigate LowEndLand in an open air forum. This is great freedom.
With it comes, ah hell is this going all Peter Parker? Let’s be more specific:
This is LowEndTalk, not LowEndWebkinz. You get to pick what you say yourself, so keep in mind what you choose reflects who you are.
When you pull out your big boy language, make sure it’s pointed at something other than another LET member.
Trolls are very obvious and usually not very funny. They tend to be rather dickish and you’ve already learned the fate of those who are dicks.
We don’t condone, but do tolerate things like trading and selling of various things (like transfers of great VPS or server deals) from long term community members. If you signed up today to sell something without bothering to wait, read, or participate, expect to be permanently banned.
LET is Eternal
Occasionally people want mods to delete accounts. We don’t do that because Vanilla doesn’t handle it very well, it messes up threads, etc. We recommend you (a) choose an account name that doesn’t identify you, and (b) don’t behave in a way that will embarrass future you. FYI, only you and the members of staff (admins/mods) can see your email address and IP info.
To be clear, if you post something on LET, you should expect it to live forever.
Do not open a ticket via the Help Desk regarding your “right to be forgotten” under the GDPR. Members of staff, who are volunteers, do not deal with legal or regulatory issues.
Warnings
Admins and mods may issue warnings when rules are violated, or to bring attention to rules that may have been overlooked.
Warnings are only visible to the user receiving the warning and to admins and mods. They are not visible to other users. They’re the first, private step on the “warning, temp ban, permanent ban” ladder. Take them as a “hey, by the way, did you see this rule” nudge in the ribs. There are various warning levels (mild, medium, severe, etc.) which are chosen based on the whim of any given admin/mod.
Provider Tag Suspension
Provider tags may be temporarily suspended in cases of rule violations, discrepancies in business registrations, ongoing disputes, unresolved operational issues, or substantial community confusion. Reinstatement will be determined following an internal review, taking into account compliance with forum rules and relevant recent developments.
When a provider’s tag is suspended, one of the following tags will be applied to their forum account: ” Patron Provider Tag Suspended” or ” Host Rep Tag Suspended”.
Politics
LowEndTalk is a hosting first global community. There are approximately 4,258,330,202 places on the Internet to discuss politics. LET doesn’t need to be the 4,258,330,203rd. The occasional political thread is unavoidable given that laws and politics do affect hosting, though we ask our users to consider that our primary focus as a community is hosting-related matters.
Commercial IP-related Posts
We recommend keeping all posts relating to commercial IP transactions, such as, requests for ranges, feeling out the market or advertising available ranges be posted in THE AIO IP Related Thread. (IPv4 + IPv6 + ASN) thread. Rules can be found within.
Giveaways & Freebies
All members (including providers) who wish to organize a giveaway or offer free items for the community, must obtain approval from a moderator or admin via a Help Desk ticket.
Once approved, you can proceed to post under the “Giveaways & Freebies” category and mention the approving moderator/admin in your post. Failure to comply will result in the removal of your post.
Provider Offers
If you see an offer that is not right for you for some reason, just move on. Not everything will fit your individual needs and it may be a great offer for someone else. It is not your place to trash providers’ offers.
While a certain amount of community self moderation has always been acceptable and is still acceptable, apply common sense and try to be constructive. e.g. “OpenVZ is rubbish” or “I can get this cheaper at xyz host” is of no use to anyone. If you feel that way then just move on. Do not assume your thoughts are welcome and widely accepted by the community.
Changelog
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