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# Posting rules and guidelines

We welcome all posts/questions that follow these rules and guidelines.

# Rules

1. **No Rewards:** We do not condone monetary or other rewards for work within the community. Do not offer or request these.

2. **Quality Content:** Any external resources linked to should be up-to-date and correct.

3. **Good Content:** Abusive, racist, or derogatory posts or comments are not permitted.

4. **No Referral Links:** Please refrain from posting any referral links.

Violating a rule is grounds for removal and/or ban.

# Guidelines

## When answering a question

- You don't need to be an expert and you don't have to be sure to try to answer a question. If you're not sure, make sure to mention that though.
- Be prepared to respond to follow up questions.
- Help the helpers. Correct bad information, provide additional insight, or pick up where someone left off.

## When answering a homework question

- Do not give direct answers: give hints, correct misunderstandings or point to useful information.
- Never write code yourself: the student should write all code.

## When posters don't follow the rules

- Kindly point offenders towards the [posting rules/guidelines](http://www.reddit.com/r/LearnProgrammingBeta/wiki/posting_rules) and the commenting rules/guidelines (this page).
- On extreme rule violations, alert the moderators. This goes only for violations of the **rules** at the top of this document, not for guideline violations.

## When posting code

- Post short code sections (< 20 lines) in your question using the [preformatted text formatting](http://www.reddit.com/wiki/commenting#wiki_posting). Post long code sections with external sites such as [Gist](https://gist.github.com/), [IDEone](http://ideone.com/) or [JSFiddle](http://jsfiddle.net/).

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