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Community guidelines


About Flex cookbook and CSS Advisor

The Adobe Flex cookbook and Adobe CSS Advisor community sites provides the most accurate, timely, and effective answers to your CSS and web development questions. These sites are also a place to share your knowledge and expertise with the Adobe designer and developer community. We value your insight and experience and invite you to share your real-world knowledge. More than a forum, a wiki, or a discussion group, Flex cookbook and CSS Advisor make it easy for you to comment with suggestions and improvements to existing content, or to add new issues for the benefit of the entire community. Before you get started, though, please take a few minutes to review these community guidelines.

Although you will encounter many supportive and like-minded professionals (including a variety of Adobe representatives), the Flex cookbook and CSS Advisor are not the correct place to report software bugs or post suggestions on commercial products and services. To suggest changes, report software bugs, or submit feedback about Adobe products, please see the Support or Contact sections of Adobe.com.

Your account

Adobe Flex cookbook and CSS Advisor are a free services and do not require registration to browse, view, or search for content.

To participate in community features such as submitting content, commenting and rating on posts, you must be signed into the site with a valid Adobe ID. If you do not have one now, please take a moment to register. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and for any and all activities that occur under your account.

For more important information and guildelines for using Adobe.com, please see the Terms of Use.

About the community

Any user can author technical content and share their knowledge with the community through the Flex cookbook and CSS Advisor. Any user can search the entries, download sample code, solutions, and post comments and ratings for the entries.

Topics and subject areas are tended to by one or more Community Editors. These volunteers are empowered to improve the overall quality of the content and are here to help everyone succeed. Community Editors are like authors in that they can add new articles, but they can also edit existing content and incorporate feedback provided in the user comments. One of their key roles is to promote good community practices. For that reason, they may, in the community interest, delete an entry if it is inappropriate or offensive. Adobe does not, and will not, impose explicit rules on Community Editors regulating such deletions. To do that would undermine the freedom of authors and editors to exercise creativity in improving their topics.

Administrators are responsible for broader, site-wide maintenance. They are empowered to promote and recruit Community Editors. Like Community Editors, they may also add, edit, or delete entries when necessary. Administrators can also edit 'locked pages.'

User roles

Below is a summary of the various user roles within the community.

  • Anonymous: Any visitor who views the site. Log-on is not required to search, browse, or view individual content items.
  • Registered Member (via Adobe ID): A visitor with basic community privileges such as the ability to add an article or entry, and comment and rate on other entries. As a registered member, you may add and edit your own entries, however you can not edit other people's entries.
  • Community Editor: Community Editors are promoted from the larger pool of registered members. These volunteers have direct access to all content on the site. Community Editors can add new articles or entries, edit existing content, and incorporate feedback into the entry based on comments. They are empowered to delete comments and entries, especially in the interest of removing spam, however, they may not edit comments. One of their key roles is to demonstrate and promote positive community values such as good faith, respect, and cooperation.
  • Administrator: Administrators are responsible for broader site maintenance, including recruitment/promotion of new community editors, demotion/blocking of user accounts, and maintenance of locked pages.

Policies and etiquette

Like any community, mutual respect and cooperation are key elements to success. Please remember that the community consists of people from different countries, cultures, and beliefs. Please write content in an unbiased manner and be respectful of others when writing about differing views. Be straightforward, sincere, and assume good faith.

Exercise moderation and good judgment when responding to a comment or entering a new one. Please be constructive and helpful in your comments and avoid personal attacks. Also, remember that comments entered in hasty reaction to someone else's posting are more likely to reflect poorly on you than on the original poster.

Assuming good faith

Assuming good faith is about intentions, not actions. Well-meaning people make mistakes, and the community should not act like their mistakes are deliberate. It is important to correct, but do not scold. Actions inconsistent with good faith include vandalism, personal attacks, or "point gaming." Negative comments should not be attributed to malice unless there is specific evidence of malice. When in doubt, always assume good faith.

Some do's and don'ts

Do

  • Respect others, assume good faith.
  • Share what you know.
  • Be good to 'newbies' — we were all new once.
  • Encourage each other, recognize and praise good work.
  • Attract and honor good knowledgeable people.
  • Ask for help and help others in return.

Don't

  • Infringe copyrighted material. Submit only original material that you create and own. Be especially careful with material such as screen shots, visual assets used to demo problems and solutions, or any material owned by your employer.
  • Use obscene or offensive language.
  • Personally attack people, their edits, or their comments.
  • Rant or otherwise harass, abuse, or intimidate others. If we receive a valid complaint about your conduct, we will terminate your account.
  • Post anything you don't want the world to see. This is a public space.
  • Post content that violates Adobe Community Help guidelines or Adobe.com Terms of Use in any manner.

You are responsible for your own actions while participating in this site, including actions you take based on advice or information you receive from the community. Use your own judgment when evaluating the materials provided.

Adobe reserves the right to immediately remove any posts that it deems inaccurate, inappropriate, offensive, or prohibited under these guidelines. In addition, Adobe reserves the right to eject or permanently ban a user who behaves in any manner it deems inappropriate, offensive, or prohibited under these guidelines. Adobe may make changes to the site content, the license terms for text or sample code, or these guidelines at any time.

About locked posts

Certain posts on this site may be locked—meaning they cannot be deleted. Why? In some cases, there may be references or links to these posts from other sites or external applications that require the post to be present.  Should you encounter an issue with a locked post, please leave a comment to the site administrators describing the problem, and we'll try to sort things out as quickly as possible.

About 'Point Gaming'

Point gaming is the practice of creating multiple accounts by a single user for the sole purpose of advancing his or her credibility or standing within the community.

For example, it is unethical for you to create a false identity and purposefully introduce errors into postings or create negative comments so that you can then log back in through your regular account and ‘correct’ the mistakes. Be yourself. Don’t create false accounts or claim false credentials

How to become a Community Editor

Community Editors are promoted and selected by Administrators based on their participation in the community. Attributes of a good community editor include:

  • Knowledge on a particular topic or subject
  • Willingness to help others, especially 'newbies'
  • Quality and quantity of posts
  • Quality and quantity helpful or positive comments
  • Ability to help resolve disagreements
  • Demonstration of positive community virtues such as good faith, respect, and cooperation

If you are interested in becoming a Community Editor, please post a note to the administrators in the CSS Advisor or the Flex cookbook forums.

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