Code of Conduct — iPundit Community

This page is the rulebook for posting in the iPundit Community. Read it once before you post your first question. Moderators apply these rules to everyone equally, including iPundit Solutions staff.

We're an engineering forum, not a debate club. The whole point of being here is to help each other ship work and avoid wasted hours. Everything below is in service of that.

1. Be civil. Always.

• Disagree about the engineering, never about the person. *"Your approach has a

flaw — bulkload runs out of memory on > 500K rows" is fine. "Your approach is dumb"* is not.

• No insults, slurs, or sarcasm aimed at another contributor.
• Comments and answers are public, indexed by Google, and outlive the moment.

Write like a colleague who'll see it again on Monday.

2. No piracy, no cracks, no leaked installers

This is non-negotiable. Anything that bypasses a licence — install media for software you don't have a licence to, crack tools, keygens, leaked Octave / Autodesk / Bricsys downloads, "send me the file" requests — gets removed and the author warned. A second offence is a ban.

Sharing publicly-available vendor documentation, SDKs (Smart 3D SOM examples, etc.) is fine. The line is: you have a licence to use it, or it's explicitly free.

3. No vendor trash-talk

We're an independent community. Octave, Autodesk, Bricsys, ZWSOFT, and others all build the tools we use. Specific criticism backed by evidence is fine — "Smart 3D V14 PG fails LDAP on workgroup installs, here's the workaround" — because that helps someone. Generic dunks don't. "X is a terrible company" gets removed.

iPundit Solutions is the community sponsor. The same rule applies to posts about us.

4. No marketing, no spam, no off-topic ads

• Job openings and consulting opportunities go in the Jobs category

only, and only iPundit moderators can publish there.

• Product announcements go in News, also moderator-only.
• Anywhere else, promotional posts get removed. This includes blog

cross-posts, affiliate links, "check out my course", and recruitment DMs.

5. Protect customer-confidential information

Engineers in this community work on real EPC projects. Do not paste:

• Real plant or project names
• Customer IP (proprietary specifications, drawings, configurations)
• Internal naming conventions that identify a specific employer's

project

• Co-workers' personal information

Anonymise before posting. "A refinery project I worked on" is fine; "<RealName> Refinery, Unit 100, P-101A-1234" is not.

6. No personal information of others without consent

Don't post anyone else's email, phone number, WhatsApp number, home address, LinkedIn URL, or other contact info unless they themselves have published it publicly and you're linking to that public source.

7. Quality matters more than quantity

Karma rewards questions and answers that the community finds genuinely useful — not the number you post. Low-effort questions ("How do I learn Smart 3D?") and one-line answers ("google it") get downvoted, closed, or removed. See the Posting Guide for what a good question looks like.

8. One question per post

If you have three problems, post three questions. Threaded mega-questions are unsearchable and unanswerable.

9. Tag and category honestly

Pick the Tool → Category → Sub-category that best matches your actual problem. "Smart 3D → Other → Other" is reserved for things that genuinely don't fit elsewhere, not as a way to skip choosing. Moderators may re-categorise mis-filed posts; repeat mis-filing leads to a warning.

10. Moderation

Moderators may:

• Edit titles, tags, or categories for clarity
• Close duplicate questions (pointing to the existing one)
• Remove content that violates this Code
• Suspend or ban accounts for repeated or serious violations

If you think a moderation decision was wrong, reply via email to community@iPunditSolutions.com rather than re-posting. We read every message.

11. Reporting

If you see a post that breaks these rules, use the flag button on the post. Flags go to the moderator queue. We respond within 24 hours during the community's first 90 days, and within 72 hours after that.

12. Licensing of your contributions

Everything you post here is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0). That means anyone — including iPundit Solutions and your competitors — may reuse, adapt, or build on your post, as long as they credit you and share alike. You retain authorship.

If you can't agree to that, don't post.

Last updated: 2026-05-14 · Maintained by iPundit Solutions. Questions about this Code → community@iPunditSolutions.com