Welcome to /tech2/! /tech2/ is an experimental 8chan technology discussion board with an emphasis on hardening the community against shilling and community degradation.
/tech2/ Bill of Rights:
1) A poster has the right to freely speak his opinion without fear of retribution from the board admin. This does not mean that social retribution in the form of mockery or otherwise dissenting statements is disallowed and is actually encouraged.
2) A poster has the right to appeal bans. This is not a guarantee that the ban will be lifted.
3) A poster has the right to dissenting opinions of the board staff to include mods and admin. The poster also has a right to petition for change to the board's SOP.
Board Rules are as follows:
1) *Shilling, as defined below, is strictly prohibited. The first offense results in a ban of one hour. The following bans will have their time extended as a function of the Fibonacci Sequence (1,1,2,3,5,8,etc…). Stating an honest positive opinion of a particular product or company out of genuine affinity is not defined as shilling.
2) "**Tech Support" requests are only allowed in a running "Tech Support/Stupid Questions" thread and only if the requesting OP includes prior measures taken to resolve the issue as well as references used in this attempt. Any TS request breaking these rules will be deleted with no ban issued. In the event that there is not a running TS/SS thread, one should be created.
3) Political and ethical debate related to technology ranging from GamerGate to systemd discussion are allowed, but only on the grounds that they are kept within their own threads (one thread for GG, one for systemd). Any secondary threads on the issue will be deleted. This is to include one thread who's title is "why is systemd bad" and another that is titled "look at these new systemd features" on the grounds that threads about a particularly polarized issue will become debates, even if the subject matter at the start is completely different. I'm sorry, it's just human nature.
*Shilling in context of this rule is defined as the explicit and planned action of expressing an affinity for a particular product or company with the intent of winning over customers or altering public opinion. FUD is also defined as a form of shilling with the intent of decreasing public opinion of a company or preventing usage of a product.
**Tech support is defined as a user requesting help from the /tech2/ community in resolving an issue that they cannot alone resolve
Rules are subject to change at the request of the users of this board, assuming we can have a civil conversation.
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