Site Rules

In order to keep TheAnswerBank an informative and fun place to be, everyone who posts questions and answers here must understand and follow these few basic principles:

• Treat others as you would like to be treated and respect other people’s opinions. Discussions can get passionate but users should moderate their language and refrain from personal attacks and profanity. We encourage lively debate but name calling, harassment or abuse will not be tolerated.

• Please refrain from adding emphasis in CAPITAL LETTERS as this indicates shouting and is considered rude.

• Do not post any personal information belonging to you or others including full name, address or phone number as it can easily be misused by others. We strongly advise you against posting links to personal photographs.

• Do not post any material that is defamatory, obscene, unlawful, threatening, in breach of copyright or otherwise objectionable. Links to objectionable websites on these grounds are also prohibited. Usernames should not be offensive or obscene.

• Do not post material that discriminates on grounds of race, gender, age or religion, nor link to websites that do so.

• Avoid posting questions and answers more than once in the same or multiple categories. They take up room from other posts and will be deleted.

• To prevent excessive chat on the AnswerBank users are limited 10 questions in 5 minutes and 20 answers in 5 minutes if you attempt to exceed this number you will be prevented from posting for the remainder of the 5 minutes, after which users accounts will then resume to normal.

• Do not abuse the AnswerBank’s sign up procedures and attempt to acquire multiple usernames.

• Users attempting to spam or "troll" the website will have their account terminated.

• Take care when discussing mature topics. Keep in mind that under 18’s view and contribute to the website. Posts that are sexually explicit will be removed.

• The AnswerBank is a general knowledge exchange and is not to be used to market, sell or promote any product, service, project or organisation.

• Please report any post you feel goes against any of the Site Rules and Terms of Use. The post will be brought to the attention of the AB Editor and be considered for removal.

• The reporting function should only be used when a legitimate breach of the Site Rules has occurred. Please refrain from reporting someone just because they disagree with you. Abuse of our reporting facility will result in your account being terminated.

• The Answerbank reserves the right to remove any post that does not relate to the topic being discussed or that we feel violate our Site Rules and Terms of Use. The role of the AnswerBank Editor is to maintain the quality of the website content. It is not to get involved in personal disputes between users.

• Due to the high volume of posts, all editorial decisions are final, and discussion relating to the removal or editing of posts will not be entered into by the AB Editor.