Notice: rules are currently being re-wrote.

Introduction
Welcome to the big thread of stuff about TheNewBoston.com. In this thread, you can find vast amounts of information about TheNewBoston.com, including the rules, how it started, and why it exists; and general statistics. Thread is split into four sections; and you can find what those sections hold by reading the section index, a general brief about each section. If you encounter any mistakes, please send me a message and I will fix those accordingly. Thank you and enjoy the read.

Section A: It's all about TheNewBoston
Section B: The people who look after it
Section C: Frequently Asked Questions
Section D: Rules and policies
Section E: Trivia
Section G: Programs

Section A: It's all about TheNewBoston

What is it?
TheNewBoston.com is a community of people who are interested in the IT field. These people are very enthusiastic about computing, and the general IT area. Together, we serve as a community who helps each other with their problems and also visitors. Many of these people take inspiration from the person who started it all in the first place, Greg "Bucky" Roberts; who started a YouTube channel to teach many people how to program, make computers, and show it is not just something geeks do. Many people find it hard to get college, and so they turn to Bucky to teach them. We, TheNewBoston, everyone, wants to help Bucky with this; we want to be a community that helps other people for free; and what drives us is the pleasure of helping others.

What do we offer?
TheNewBoston.com offers vast amounts of knowledge in nearly every area of IT. People of the TheNewBoston.com will mostly come from the YouTube community, by watching Bucky's videos. Someone will learn a language, by watching Bucky show the basics; and then that person will make something combining the basics that Bucky shown, and then show the community what he/or she did. It's all about sharing; and returning what we were taught back to the community of TheNewBoston.

Where did it all start?
TheNewBoston.com was created by Bucky due to hundreds of requests from his video viewers. The original plan was to allow Bucky to communicate more effectively with his fanbase; to try and target what the video viewers want. But, ever since the community has grown, it has turned into more of a giving community. The community is rather young, the forum was opened in 2010; however TheNewBoston has been around for about 3 years.

Who started it?
A person called Bucky or Greg Roberts, 23 years old from Raleigh, North Carolina in the United States. Bucky started a YouTube channel in 2008; the exact reason is not known, but is a channel where users can find tutorials related to computing. Bucky has created over 900 videos; mostly of them are tutorials for programming languages, which show users how to program in a certain language by showing the basics and some examples of a program running in that language. The channel is apart of the YouTube Partnership Program; the exact date and reason when it was partnered is not known. However, the reason might be due to the channel's style.

Goals and future?
TheNewBoston.com wants to remain a community that offers knowledge to other people who are interested or just need help with problems in the IT area. The community will grow every day, and we want to be the number 1 resource on the Internet for free, open-source tutorials. A person will come on TheNewBoston, that person will learn a language, and that person will show their creations and more things. You see, you will not be good at making stuff just knowing the language, you need the creativity; and there are people who have this creativity; but cannot learn the language because of poor educational needs, and just problems with getting into college. We want to help people learn for free.

Section B: The people who look after it

Who are we?
The staff who look after TheNewBoston.com are people from different areas of the world, they are not paid; they simply work for the benefit of the community.

System Operator
The System Operator or SYSOP is the person in charge of the server, and the website.
Their should only be one person at any given time, and that person is currently: Bucky.

Administrators
Administrators are people who have higher powers; they mainly conduct maintenance on the forum and create categories and other places where users will create threads and replies, etc.

The current administrators are:
- Mark, who joined the TheNewBoston community on Sunday, 16th May 2010.

Moderators
Moderators are people who ensure TheNewBoston.com remains a safe environment for everyone and also enforce the rules given in section D. They are also people who users can contact if they are experiencing problems with the forum or have complaints about other members.

The current moderators are:
- applebees, who joined the TheNewBoston community on Friday, 14th May 2010.
- Berylac, who joined the TheNewBoston community on Sunday, 16th May 2010. Berylac is also the head of the moderating team.
- KrisTheSavage, who joined the TheNewBoston community on Sunday 16th May, 2010.
- lhatcher, who joined the TheNewBoston community on Friday 14th May, 2010.

Members
Members are people who make TheNewBoston.com what it is. Without them, their is no need for a moderator or administrator. If I could name them all, I would; but theres far too many of them. But, this group is the most beneficial group to the TheNewBoston community.

Can I be apart of it?
If you are a member, then you are. If you want to help out with other parts of the community, you can look out for applications. But if you are a member, then you are apart of the team. Because without you, the contributions, there really is no meaning for TheNewBoston.

Section C: Frequently Asked Questions

Does Bucky take requests?
Yes, Bucky will do requests. However, if the request is aimed at a different language that Bucky has no knowledge of, it may not be fulfilled.

Where can I find the source code?
Source code to the tutorials is scattered all over the forum. Originally, a section strictly for the source code of the tutorials was being constructed to hold the source code. However, that was scrapped since it would take far too much time, and be a big resource in space on the servers.

We also want to try and make sure you learn from these tutorials, and so we ask you to watch the videos and code while Bucky shows you what you are doing. It aids the process of learning the subject in the video quicker than if you just copy lumps of code and just run it.

All these questions are put in place for people to read, before they contact a member of staff.

Section D: Rules and policies

A General
1 [IPPERM]. You may not violate the phpBB's terms, the rightful owners of the software used to power the forums (i), FastDomain's terms, the rightful owners for the hosting for TheNewBoston.com (ii). Any violations to their terms will result in a permanent ban on your IP under the account on which you have registered.

B Posting
1 [BANN-6h]. You may not post any inappropriate, including but not limited to the following: vulgar (i), obsence (ii), discriminative (iii), defamatory (iv), racial (v) or otherwise (vi) content.
2 [WARN]. You may not post any copyrighted works unless you have written or expressed consent from it's rightful and lawful owners; or the work is released under a public domain license or the author says otherwise. This includes but not limited to the following: images (i), files (ii), articles (iii), audio (iv), video (v) content.
3 [WARN]. You may not post anything that could reveal the identity of you or someone else. Please keep personal information such as but not limited to the following: residence addresses (i), date of births (ii), names (iii), aliases (iv), schools you or others currently go to (including higher establishments) (v), work places (vi) to yourself.
4 [BANN-1d]. You may not post links that branch to external sites which have been blacklisted (i), or that could possibly put someone in danger if it is clicked and followed (ii), branches to an illegal file/or software downloading/or software key exchanging site (iii).
5 [WARN]. You may not post closed source code. Closed source code means that the authors wish not to allow viewing, modification of the source code.
6 [PERM]. You may not post any adult content; this includes but is not limited to: images (i), video (ii), audio (iii). TheNewBoston does have minor members. Please remember girls in swimming costumes is not of pornographical nature.
7 [BANN-30m]. You may not make irrelevant posts. Please ensure the thread has meaning; so everyone can elaborate on. In thread context, this is due to the starting question/or discussion having no meaning or end-result (i). In post/or reply context, this is due to the reply being completely disconnected from the discussion; this does include simple non-constructive acknowledgements such as "yeah", or "okay" (ii).
8 [BANN-30m]. You may not make unallocated posts. Please ensure the thread is in the correct section, before posting; or it will be regarded as spam.
9 [BANN-30m]. You may not post any animation/or motion pictures. This may cause slow-downs for whomever should read the post. Videos are absolutely fine.

C Promotion and advertising policy
All forms of promotion and advertising are now unauthorised. You must ask a member of staff if the content it is you are wishing to promote is okay; if it should be okay to advertise/or promote this content, it will be may authorised. This is an exception to our partnered/or business relationships.

Please be aware that any promotional/or advertising material must be representing a non-profit organisation/or foundation. Should it not, it will not be made authorised.

D User account policy
As a guest of this community, you should not have an account; and therefore, may be limited to features such as posting or contributing in polls.

Creating your user account takes minutes and just requires you to activate your account from the email dispathced to you with the activation link.

Should you enter the incorrect email address, you may contact us and we will change it accordingly and re-send the activation link. Please note, we cannot activate your account unless we are sure the email is real and yours.

Your user account's username must not contain any offensive words or references. You may use your real name or other aliases; however, please be careful. It may also contain spaces, capitals; however it may not contain any formatting entities. Please note, some usernames are coloured as they are members of a group; you may find out this information by scrolling down the bottom of your page and find the group legend under users currently online. Your user account's username may contain parts of your email address; however not the special AT (@) sign or the top-level-domain name after it. (example[@hotmail.co.uk]—where the square brackets ([]) represent parts that are not allowed). Your user account's username my not contain managerial context or show authoritive meaning. Administrator, root, superuser, su, systemman, sysop, founder, moderator are words that will not be allowed as a username regardless of capitalisation or shorthands such as "admin" for administrator.

E Rule and guidelines policy
The rules specified in sub-section A and B of section D are subject to this policy.

Each rule warrants a form of punishment should the rule be violated. After the rule number in square brackets shows the punishment that the rule warrants. Below is the chart:-

WARN: A warning will be given; however no serious action was taken.
BANN-X: A ban will be given; X represents the duration of the ban. Meaning, the account has been banned; but only for a certain amount of time.
PERM: A permanent ban will be given. Meaning, the account will be banned indefinately.
IPPERM: The IP corresponding to that account will be banned. Meaning, the IP will not be able to register a future account.
SAFBAN: The account has been banned as a measure to secure the compromised account should it be hijacked. This will never be used as a punishment, just serves here for completeness.

Warnings can lead to a ban, should the rule keep being violated. 3 warnings will constitute a ban. 6 warnings will constitute in a permanent ban. This only accounts for warnings.

You may appeal a ban, if you feel it was unfair. Please contact the moderation supervisor.

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Remember to search the forums, and external resources such as Google, before posting your problem. I am open to answer your questions, if you private message me.

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