Hey ho! I thought it might be useful to post a few guidelines on posting to the forums here at sidefx.com.

1) Post something better than a bot. If the entirety of your post is 'nice work' or 'same problem here' or any other phrase that could be tacked onto any thread, it's not really adding to the conversation in a meaningful way. If you have a real compliment on someone's work or advice, use your words and say why you like it or why it was helpful. Obvious bumps to a thread are just lazy. If it's your first forum post ever, it will be rejected. It's the kind of post a bot/spammer would do. Using ChatGPT to write your post is also something a bot would do and is also a good way to get banned.

2) Be civil. You can have productive discussions and even disagreements while being civil, but if you start calling people or their opinions childish, naïve, ignorant, stupid, or any other insult, * Pulls out banhammer * you will be banned. We've had a few good discussions go off the rails and get locked down and it's not something I enjoy doing.

3) Don't argue about which software is better. Every piece of software out there has it's strengths and weaknesses. Accept it and move on. Arguments about it are tiresome and nobody needs to see that.

4) If you've got a bug or suggestion, log it. Don't write a forum post about it. That message at the top of every forum that says READ THIS FIRST? Please read it if you want your bug or suggestion to actually be tracked and assigned to someone to work on. https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/25347/ [www.sidefx.com]

Finally, you don't need to get the last word in and there are no awards or medals given for arguing on the internet. If you feel yourself getting angry at something someone has said on the magical interweb, take a deep breath and step away from the keyboard. In through the nose....hold for 5 seconds, out through the mouth. Ahhhh....