Welcome to the Lazarus & Free Pascal forum.
All user are advised of the following ground rules.
- No hate speech. No discrimination.
Any such behaviour will result in a ban. Moderators may ban an offender without giving any prior warning.
- No personal attacks. No name calling.
The forum should be a welcoming and friendly place for everyone.
You may think of of the desired atmosphere as "A camp-site fire, early evening, family friendly conversation" or "family friendly lunch time pub chat".
- No Politics
This is a technical forum about programming and Pascal.
No matter how important you think of any political event, this forum is not the place for it.
- No moderation of other users by users. No moderation-like actions towards other users.
If you are not a forum moderator, don't act like one.
You are welcome and should help others. But if a message needs moderation, then that should be done by a moderator, and by a moderator only.
- Do not reply to such a message
- Do report it to a moderator
- No publication that violate 3rd party rights.
Please do not publish or link to any text/content to which you do not (or the linked author did not) not have the right to publish it.
Help us to keep friendly relations with others.
- Suspected violation of these rules
Same as "No moderation of users by other users".
- Do not reply to such a message
- Do report it to a moderator
If you reply to messages like this, the message-thread may quickly spin out of control. In that case you may be hold fully accountable, same as the author of the initial message.
Further to those rules we currently
ban conversations on the topic
IRC. Unfortunately this topic creates very controversial and heated discussions. We do not have the manpower to moderate these, therefore we must ban them entirely.
We also encourage all to a friendly and peaceful interaction on our forum. Any disturbances should be reported. This also includes any potential disturbances not listed above. Moderators will then decide how to best react to them.
Consequences:Consequences may reach from for example a warning, removal of a post, limitation of a user account, to temporary or full time ban.
The severity of consequences may depend on the kind of offence and any prior offences of the user in question.
Moderation against any user is normally not publicly announced (other than visible actions such a removal of a post).
Announcement may be made, naming the user, if a need for this is seen, such as for example (not limited to) the users violation caused particular damage to the forum and/or its users, and the announcement may limit the damage.
Reporters may or may not be informed of what (or if anything) happened as consequence of their report.
In addition to the above, users are also still subject to the registration agreement. All interactions are subject to the privacy policy.
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?action=agreement
Page change log:- 2025-08-06 Added violation of 3rd party rights:
