As of July 18, 2016, these forum rules are no longer effective. Our new communication guidelines are available here .


By participating in World Community Grid, you have agreed to follow the rules as outlined in the Software License Agreement. In addition, a few rules have been established for use with World Community Grid Forum participation. These rules will be updated from time to time as conditions warrant.
Forum posts may not be obscene, hate related, sexually explicit, express intolerance of others by denigrating others for their race, nationality, gender, beliefs, religion, preferences, or disabilities or use any name that is a trademark or trade name of, or is owned by someone other than you. Forum posts may not point to a website which features sexual content, gambling, or intolerance of others. In addition, Members may not represent themselves as other Members or as employees of World Community Grid.
Some additional rules include:

• Please help to make the Forums an enjoyable experience for all members
  
• Please make all posts kid friendly
  
• Please choose the appropriate Forum before posting a new message
  
• Please obtain as much information as possible about a problem before posting your query, as this will help to find a quicker solution
  
• Please post anything unrelated to World Community Grid in the Chat Room
  
• Please remember that profane language is not tolerated and will be deleted
  
• Please do not start Flame Wars in the Forums, as this will not be tolerated
  
• Please do not reignite inflammatory threads by creating new threads after existing threads on the same topic have been closed
  
• Please do not hijack other member's threads
  
• Please do not be rude to other members nor retaliate if a member is rude to you
  
• Please do not recruit members outside of the Team Forum
  
• Please be patient when waiting for an answer to a message
  
• Please do not include graphics which exceed 600x600 pixels as they may be removed by World Community Grid
  
• Please run one team thread only per team in the Team Forum unless there is a major milestone event to celebrate
  
• Please do not post copyrighted material unless you are the owner of the copyrighted material
  
• Please do not use World Community Grid forums for outside advertising, marketing, or solicitations of any kind

At the sole discretion of World Community Grid, any offensive or inappropriate forum post may be edited, locked or deleted. Members who demonstrate intolerance of other members or disrupt the forums will be banned.
Any questions about these rules should be addressed to World Community Grid via the Contact Us facility.

Please remember our collective goal.

World Community Grid's mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. You have joined in order to donate the idle cycle time from your computer to accelerate the research projects running on World Community Grid and in that way, help to improve human conditions We encourage your participation on the forums and provide information on team development and progress to make it easier for individuals to participate, to recruit new members and generally increase the amount of computer run time available for the humanitarian research projects we run. This web site is not a place to promote any other cause or issue.