Hello dear forum users, in order to establish a nice etiquette in our community, we have decided to suspend user accounts which do not correspond to forum's rules. The main reason is that a lot of forum users don't have valid real names specified. The problem in that is, that your posts are also visible by the mailing list members and that more or less blind kind of conversation isn't appropriate for our community. Please take a look into this thread, written by Robert Osfield: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?t=2498 to see what I mean!!!
So, user accounts who's real names are either not full (by full we understand First and Last name) or are of some cryptic nature (e.g. XMen, 3D Master, etc) will be put into moderation queue by me in the next hours. Messages posted by moderated/suspended accounts are not visible and also not forwarded to the mailing list, until they get approved by moderatos. Hence you still able to post, however until you do not correct your profile to match the forum rules (http://forum.openscenegraph.org/rules.php) your messages will not be visible by other members of our community. Hence if you like to join us, you are asked to follow the netiquette established in many years of mailing list era. So again: - you have to specify a valid real name in your profile. Valid real name is of type "First Last" name, for example "John McCourkey", "Alice Smith", etc... - Names with more than 2 words are allowed, e.g. "Hans Peter Maier". - If it is not appropriate to have such names in your culture or you want to preserve some kind of anonymity, then please use a pseudonym (which match the both previous points!!!), however use it persistently in all your communications within our community. - you can disable "Always show my realname" in your profile settings, then your name wouldn't be visible on the forum and will also not be indexed by Google etc when indexing the forum page! However it will still be used in mails sent to the mailing list, so this is the same level of anonymity as if you have used mailing list only Thank you and sorry for such circumstances Art P.S. Users who recieve an email with subject "Your account on OpenSceneGraph Forum is now moderated/suspended" are landed on the moderation queue. So they are asked to correct their profiles! ------------------ Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=11678#11678 _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
