
Please Read: Updated Guidelines for Posting to the AppleVis Forum
Submitted by AppleVis on Monday, March 10, 2014.

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The aim of the AppleVis forum is to allow members of our community to share information and expertise and to gain help and support from others. To ensure that the forum is a rewarding and supportive experience, we have some basic guidelines which we encourage all users of the forum to follow. These guidelines have recently been updated, so we thought that we should take the opportunity to remind you all of what they are. We try to avoid overt moderation, but if people stray outside the reasonable requests listed below, then their postings will be removed by our Editorial Team. Those who persistently offend will be banned from using the forums.
- Before starting a new topic, we would recommend that you use the site’s search facility to check if a similar topic already exists or if the question that you are about to ask has previously been asked and answered.
- Please use clear and descriptive subject lines for your posts. Doing so will significantly increase the likelihood that others will read your post and answer any questions that you may have asked.
- Please only post questions about a single topic in any new post to the forum. For example, do not ask a question about using an iOS app and another question about Bluetooth keyboards in the same post. This will improve your chances of getting appropriate and helpful answers and also make discussion easier to follow.
- Please do not post replies which add no value to the existing discussion. For example, if somebody has asked for information on a specific app, replying to say that you have not used that app is of no value and only serves to get in the way of what might be helpful answers. Additionally, if someone asks a question about how to do a particular task, replying to the post and saying to do an internet search to find the answer is not at all helpful.
- Please stay on topic. Always stick to the original topic that was stated by the person who started the thread. If you have a suggestion or comment that is on a different topic, please start a new thread.
- Please be polite. The AppleVis forum is designed to build a positive, thriving community. Please give the same consideration and tolerance to others that you would like to receive from them. It is perfectly okay to have a differing viewpoint from someone else; please remember, though, to express your views in a respectful manner. Posts that are deliberately insulting to other members of the AppleVis community will be edited and/or removed.
- No advertising. The AppleVis Forums are not to be used for trading/swapping or selling/advertising products or services. If you wish to post information about a product or service that you believe would be of interest to our community and falls within the scope of the website, please Contact Us beforehand for our approval.
- Please do not use the AppleVis Forum to promote your own website or online resource. If you want to let others know of a website that might be of interest and which falls within the scope of AppleVis, you should submit it to our Link Directory.
- No flaming. Flaming is the act of posting messages that are deliberately hostile and insulting. These types of posts are absolutely not allowed and will result in the immediate removal of the offending post.
- Please do not post inappropriate or offensive content. This includes: posting messages with insults or profanity; or messages which are religiously, racially, or sexually offensive. These types of posts will result in the post being edited or removed and could also lead to your forum privileges being revoked.
- Please do not post illegal content. For example, no posts about the illegal use of licensed software or posting information about beta versions of software which would breach any non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
- Please do not spam. Repeated posting of a message (or very similar messages) multiple times is considered spamming and is not welcome here. When making a post, please post it only one time in the most appropriate forum category that fits the topic of your post. Multiple posts will be unpublished or deleted, and continued abuse of this guideline may result in having your posting privileges revoked.
- To keep your identity and personal information safe and to keep from being added to a spammer's e-mail list, it is recommended that you not include e-mail addresses or other personal information in your posts.
If you have a question about any of the above guidelines or whether a post would be appropriate for AppleVis, please ask first using the Contact Us form.
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Spelling and Punctuation
Spelling and Grammar as a Guideline
I agree. We all make
I agree. We all make mistakes, me included.
Tehre are those of us who are disabled and who for some reason or another can't spell due to a disability so I would not even go there as you will cause more trouble then it's really worth.
Take care.
Guilty of the I problem. no pun intended.
One App or platform per post?
Search!
Tweaked a little more
Reposting guidelines.
No One-Liners
Jake, you're absolutely right.
Great Article on Spelling
Hi all. I'm revisiting this thread because a neighbor directed me to a great article which he read a couple days ago. I'm pasting a link to this article below, not to offend anybody, but rather to further illustrate the point that good spelling is important. At least to me it is. In addition, this article mentions Siri so I feel it is definitely on topic. I think the article makes some very good points. One in particular with which I agree is about misinterpreting a word or phrase as something else. I realize nobody is perfect, and this is true of the originator of this message lol! We all have our strengths and weaknesses. But I'd really like to see certain people try harder in this respect. http://onj.me/30aez
Thank you all
Applevis, Thanks so much for this site. It was so helpful to me when I started using an iPhone. And it continues to be. Whenever I have a question, there is always so many people willing to help. Thank you, Applevis team and other users!
Spelling
As some users were saying, some people have a hard time spelling. So I still think that the spelling rule should not apply. So lets just get that out of the way. LOL
at least, try your very best
While it's impractical to make proper spelling an actual guideline, I'd like to encourage everyone to at least, try to get it right if humanly possible. Nobody is perfect but i'm seeing so many people dictate their responses using an iPhone, and it always really irritates me when I encounter a run-on sentence. All the information they're trying to convey gets lost. The sad thing is it's probably good. All people have to do is just make a bit of effort in this regard. Spellchecking is a great thing to do. I always do this before posting. I might not get every single word spelled correctly, but I at least give it the old college try.
Agree with Toonhead
I agree 100 percent about that. And why people don't correct their dictation tells me that they are lazy. I never use dictation because for 1 I have fingers to touch the screen. I could understand for the people that don't but spelling errors are not an excuse.
Item 13, thank you for that one too!
I was just re-reading the guidelines and noticed item 13 about posting personal information. I see this happening a lot especially when it comes to beta testing different apps. It's fantastic that people want to be beta testers and improve the accessibility of apps, but including your email address in a post is just asking to be added to a spammers address list. Everyone on here has a profile, so perhaps a better way to handle that particular situation is for an app developer to include some kind of contact details in their profile so any requests for promo codes and other offers of help can be done privately. This also makes it easier for app developers to corolate information so they won't have to write down everyone's email addresses. Just a thought, of course!
Read before posting?
I'd like a rule that tells users to read before posting. Often times one person will answer the question, and 2 or 3 people will reply with the same exact answer. Sometimes even after a user has thanked the first poster. Now I'm not talking about when someone says another way to do the task but when someone repeats the same way to do something.