We take great pride in our global and thriving community, it’s part of what makes the Marketplace such a friendly place to participate in. Our focus on forum rules and guidelines is one of transparency and mutual respect. We invite all users who wish to participate, give feedback, or have their say to do so!
We aim to take a transparent and common sense approach with forum rules and moderating. Before using or participating on the forums, please do familiarize yourself with the below rules and guidelines. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact a support member.
Do:
- Post threads in the correct section.
- Ensure any threads discussing or linking to your product (accepted or not) go to the ‘specific ‘Marketplace Discussions’ section where this is permitted.
- Get to know your fellow members and peers! Help out new users with any questions, be active, and share your feedback. Participating and affecting the community in a positive way will make you eligible for the ‘Forum Superstar’ badge.
- Please offer respect to your fellow users, staff, and moderators and refrain from personal attacks, calling out another user and/or their product, and refrain from posting copyright accusations on the forums.
- Send any account issues or problems you have to support. Support checks the forums when they can, but the only way to guarantee they’ll see and resolve your issue is to contact them directly. Also, be sure to search the wiki and the forums (via the search tab) before starting a thread with a question. Chances are it’s already been answered!
Do NOT:
- Spam. These thread will be disabled and users warned and/or banned.
- Self promotion is not allowed on the forums, for examples and clarification, see the below section title A Note on Self Promotion. In addition, promoting outside services or competitors is not allowed on the forums.
- Post any threads discussing or link to piracy and/or warez sites. These do more damage than good and will be locked or disabled. Report any copyright, piracy, or warez violations to WPBay Support.
- Go extremely off the topic of the thread in question. We understand the forums are a fun place and a little off topic chat never hurt anyone, but the mods may step in to steer the direction if needed.
- Discuss or link to offensive topics, such as pornography, violent themes, sexism, racism or other discriminatory subjects, even as a “joke”. Users doing so will receive a warning and further action if needed. Threads of a political or religious nature are not appropriate for the marketplaces.
- Post or solicit any kind of racism, flaming, trolling, harassment, discrimination of any kind, or behavior deemed by the WPBay staff to be intentionally abusive or inappropriate will result in an immediate warning. Further violations can escalate to account freezes and bans.
Anti-censorship, Pro Constructive Feedback!
We value the feedback and input we get from the community. Seriously. As long as posts abide by forum rules and guidelines, we’ll step back, take note and respond to input or feedback given. If you have any issues or something you’d like to discuss privately please do not hesitate to contact Szabi or Stefan (WPBay founders) via WPBay Support. Our Community Mods are here to help and to steer the conversation and give any input needed. If you have questions about the forums let them know!
Community Moderators
Community Moderators are long time members of the forum who have volunteered and been picked to help lead the forums. The mods role on the forums is to provide users with any assistance they may need and to ensure forum rules are followed. Mods are here to help you and treat you with respect, we do ask that you also remain respectful towards them.
A Note on Self Promotion
Because of the commercial nature of the WPBay networks, sellers are expected to understand and respect the fact that using the forum to post links to one’s own products, or to give away free files to the community, is not allowed. This practice effectively undercuts the hard work of all sellers who wish to sell their products fairly, and as such it is not tolerated.
If you’d like to post a link to your product to get feedback or discussion on how to improve it, it must be posted in the “Marketplace Discussion” section of the forums.
WPBay Specific Products: If you’ve made a special product or app that is specifically WPBay related and desire to post it on the forums, contact us first please.
Have Fun!
Lastly, we encourage you to above all have fun, get to know your community members, and enjoy all the forums have to offer. It’s a friendly place with plenty of talented people and we’d love to see you participate!