Guidelines

Welcome to the CombatACE.com forums!

The forums are a volunteer-powered resource, available to all users of CombatACE.com to help provide a global community of aviation enthusiasts.

User Expectations

As a volunteer-powered forum, users are expected to be kind, helpful and respectful to all, assuming the best intentions of people and trying to help make things better. Please also be aware that these are community forums, this means that all users are required to follow the

Be aware that there is no obligation for support to be provided, including by the developers and modding members in our community.

Be mindful to follow any and all reasonable instructions given by a forum moderator at all times, they are long time contributors with experience to know when action needs to be taken, or warnings need to be issued.

Guidelines for Posting in our Forums

When posting in our forum and interacting with others here, please: 

• Check if anyone has already asked the question you have and received a reply. Just as you wouldn’t repeat a topic of discussion right after it happened in real life, don’t do that in discussion boards either.

• Stay on topic – Don’t post irrelevant links, comments, thoughts, or pictures.

• Don’t type in ALL CAPS! If you do, it will look like you’re screaming.

• Don’t write anything that sounds angry or sarcastic, even as a joke, because without hearing your tone of voice, other community members might not realize you’re joking.

• Always remember to say “Please” and “Thank you” when soliciting help from others.

• Respect the opinions of others. If you feel the need to disagree, do so respectfully and acknowledge the valid points of the other's argument. Acknowledge that others are entitled to have their own perspective on the issue.

• If you reply to a question, make sure your answer is accurate.

• If you ask a question and many people respond, summarize all answers, and post that summary to benefit your whole community.

• Be brief. If you draft a long dissertation in response to a simple question, it’s unlikely that anyone will spend the time to read it all.

• Don’t badmouth others or call them stupid. You may disagree with their ideas, but don’t mock the person.

• If you refer to something someone has said earlier in the discussion, quote just a few key lines from their post so that others won't have to go back and figure out which post you’re referring to.

• Before asking a question, check the FAQs or search the internet to see if the answer is obvious or easy to find.

• Check the most recent comments before you reply to an older comment, since the issue might have already been resolved or opinions may have changed.

• Be forgiving. If someone makes a mistake, don’t badger them for it. Just let it go – it happens to the best of us.

• Run a spelling and grammar check before posting anything to the discussion board. It only takes a minute and can make the difference between sounding like a fool and sounding knowledgeable.

• Don't PM someone asking for help with questions that should be asked on our forums. 

Our guidelines summed up; if you wouldn’t do or say something in real life, don’t do it online either.

Contacting the Moderators

If a post needs moderator attention, there is a ‘Report’ link on all of our content. That will add the post to a queue moderators watch and follow up with many times a day. If immediate action is needed, or the situation is not limited to a specific post, users should Private Message one of our staff or moderators directly. In many cases, the "Report" link will resolve the issue and we recommend you use this feature when possible.

From all of us at CombatACE.com,

Thank you!