Welcome to the TinyMe forums! At the TinyMe forums, you may get help with TinyMe.

Just so everybody has a good time, here are some things you should know:

General

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• Read everything in this post in full and carefully. You're shooting yourself in the foot if you don't.
• Use common sense. I can't cover every single situation. God gave you common sense and I expect you to exercise it.
• LURK FIRST! Spend at least a few days getting familiar with our community before jumping in and posting. Often you'll find we've already answered your question somewhere.
• When you look inside a board, first check to see if there are any stickies. If so, consider them REQUIRED READING.
• We modify these instructions every couple of weeks or so. It is your responsibility to check up on them periodically.
• Be kind and courteous every chance you get. You'll catch more flies with honey than you will with vinegar. Do to others as you'd want them to do to you.
  

Support Questions

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• Please do not ask help questions via PM to any Administrator, Global Moderator, or Moderator. We will not answer.
• It is okay, however, to ask where a help question should be posted.
• Installing programs from outside the repositories is a good way to bork your install. Do not advocate, give instructions for, or in any way, shape, or form give credence to installing anything outside the repositories. Do not ask for support if you have installed applications from outside the repositories. If you think you're smart enough to install from outside the repository, you're smart enough to troubleshoot it yourself. This does not apply for programs run under Wine or getting firmware to work for your networking cards.
• If you are having a problem, you might try searching the Unity forum for answers. Do not post on the Unity forum when you are having problems with TinyMe; that is why this forum exists. You may search.
• If you think you are having the same problem as someone else, please start your own thread. Please do not make a post in the other person's thread. You may post in the other person's thread and say "Hey, I think I'm having the same issue. My thread is at [link]." and that's okay.
• Please be clear and specific regarding the issue you are having. A subject line of "HELP!!!" is very, very bad. "LiveCD doesn't boot" is mildly better, but still bad. "LiveCD stops part-way through boot-up" is more than acceptable. "LiveCD hangs at 'Bringing up eth0' on Compaq Armada 1535DM" is excellent.
• When an issue has been resolved for you, please go to the first post in the thread, click on the edit button, and add [SOLVED] to the beginning of the subject line.

Speech

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• Please speak like a normal person as your abilities permit. Above all else, please, PLEASE don't use IM speak. Few things irritate moar tahn sum1 who uses IM speek 4 reel English. 1337 sp33k ("Elite speak") will be tolerated to a point. If you wish to use it for purposes of humor or something like that you'll be all right (I do it myself). If English is not your first language, don't worry as we will make allowances for you.
• I don't tolerate bad language, period. I have a pretty strict bad word filter set on the forums. "Darn", "dang", "heck" and "crap" are as strong as I will let you get. If you don't know how to express yourself without using foul language, this isn't the place for you. If a bad word is caught by the bad word filter, it will be replaced by 4 asterisks and your post will probably not be edited. Trying to get around the bad word filter will not get you merit with the admins.
• Show respect for other distributions of Linux. There is a line between criticizing and bashing.
  

If you see a thread which is offensive or violates these forum rules, you may either send a PM to a moderator/administrator or click on the "Report" button. Please don't hesitate to use these links; we will not slap you down nor call you a tattler.

Rules Changelog

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• 2012-03-27, 17:50 EDT:
• Removed "No Sandbox threads" rule
• Removed "One thread per issue, one issue per thread" rule