Now on to the guidelines/suggestions in addition to what is in our ToS and CoC:
Not everyone thinks the way you do, plays the way you do, speaks the way you do, or types the way you do. That makes them different from you, not necessarily wrong. To quote the Code of Conduct (linked above):
Quote:When posting to this forum, you will be subjected to the opinions of others from within the community. These opinions may oppose your own views, that being said we expect that all users will conduct themselves respectfully when responding to others.
To that end, we expect you to be civil in all your interactions on the forums.
While profanity might make talking out loud fun, it makes narrative or non-dialog prose look, well, childish. Yes, we have a language filter (courtesy of Microsoft) in place but we do expect you to find a way to express yourself without recourse to profanity. Filter or not, we will take action against your posts and possibly you if you insist on thinking the filter somehow absolves you of your responsibility to abstain from use of profanity. Attempts to deliberately obfuscate profanity or circumvent the filter illustrate a willfulness to flout the rules and will be handled accordingly.
Try searching instead of immediately opting for a new post. Scan the page, see if there is a current discussion about your issue and reply there instead of creating a redundant new thread. This might seem hard for many to grasp but one thread with a hundred replies always trumps a hundred threads with only post. This is especially so if you want to get the developer's attention. They simply do not have the time or resources to scan back though page after page looking for patterns. No one does, except maybe Max. Consolidate your discussion into fewer threads and you have better discussions that get more notice. It's science.
Wish Lists, contrary to popular misconception, are not black holes where ideas go to die. By consolidating car and feature wish lists into specific threads, they're easier to read and gather information from for both Max and the developers. Max puts in more hours assembling and tracking all that information than most of you do playing the game, please help him help you by using the wist lists for cars and features. Putting all those requests in one place also keeps the forums moving at a somewhat usable pace. Imagine if those thousands of requests were all new threads, the forums would collapse under the volume.
Quote trains are bad, very bad. They get confusing and hard to keep track of who is posting what. Trim your replies, you'll be happier and we'll be happier. Similarly, please don't quote an entire lengthy post of text or images just to reply with a single word of sentence.
Bumping threads is equally bad, please don't do it and we won't have to remove your bumps. General Discussion is going to be exceedingly busy for the next few weeks and every new post or reply will elevate a thread to the top and thereby force someone else's thread off the front page. You wouldn't want someone to do that to your thread so don't do it to theirs.
We vote no on petitions, especially third party petitions. The number of active players on the forums represent less than one percent of the player base therefore any petition on the forums, even with overwhelming participation, is statistically insignificant and not possibly large enough to overcome the margin of error. While you might feel that yours represents the opinion of a vast number of players, it almost assuredly does not.
These forums are open to all users age 13 and above, please do not link to inappropriate material such as, well, you don't need me to tell you what is inappropriate for 13 year olds and if you do, then you've got larger issues this forum cannot solve. Obviously material of an adult nature is inappropriate.
Likewise, these are the official forums for the Forza franchise, please do not link to material relating to piracy or modding.
Cross-posting and duplicate posting is also frowned upon and as Dragnet is first one to tackle the moderation queue each day, he's the last person you want frowning upon your posts.
Finding your own posts is easy, either select My Topics to the right of your My Inbox or select My Settings to the left of My Inbox and from there select View Profile.
Edited by user Friday, November 2, 2018 9:00:39 AM(UTC)
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