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Frequently Asked Questions, Rules and Regulations for Sadikhov.com (Last revision: October 13, 2007)
* Introduction
* Forum
* Warning System
* Support Team
* Advertising
* Contribution
* Frequently Asked Questions
* Abbreviations
 
Introduction

Thank you for visiting the FAQ section of our web site. We have received a lot of emails and requests about the operation of Sadikhov.com web site. We decided to put this information together on one page which will answer the most common and frequently asked questions. If you have any other questions, please feel free to send them to us. However due to the high volume of incoming emails, we will not answer the questions which have already been answered here. This page will be updated as we continue receiving your questions and concerns. The information provided here is written in English and the rules are in effect as soon as the information is published. The visitor of the web site is totally responsible for reading this information. Sadikhov.com in his turn is not responsible for reader's abilities to understand the content of this page or for difficulties with the English language.

If you came to this site to download, then this web site is not for you. There are plenty of web sites on the internet to which you can refer as free download portals. Sadikhov.com is not one of them. The web site has been developed to unite the IT community all over the world to help them share the knowledge and experience, discuss technical issues and learn from each other. The web site is totally free and will continue to be free or otherwise will be shutdown. Many web site visitors are experienced IT professionals who will gladly answer your questions. Please use their knowledge and experience wisely. For this communication we have created the IT forum.

For protection and security reasons Sadikhov.com may keep your information such as IP address, time of visit and OS version. (This information is sent by your browser every time you visit our web site). If you find potential security vulnerabilities in Sadikhov.com web site, please let us know the details, clearly mentioning the exact steps that you took to discover. However we do not welcome the activities which intend to find such vulnerabilities. If we find that your actions were dangerous, we may terminate your access to our site permanently by blocking your IP range and removing all related accounts. Any such tests are disallowed. There is no need to publicly announce the vulnerabilities and bugs, please contact Moderators of the forum or Administrator of the site.

Sadikhov.com may restrict your access to the web site without any prior warnings, in case if you perform any actions that affect Sadikhov.com in a negative way including but not limited to:
1. Attempts to discover potential security holes in Sadikhov.com including but not limited to scanning, DoS attacks, password cracking, malicious hacking or generating unnecessary traffic.
2. Advertising of any web sites anywhere on Sadikhov.com without Sadikhov.com owner's permission.
3. Use of bad language, provoke or intentionally offend members of Sadikhov.com team and other web site visitors.
4. Posting abusive or offensive content such as pornography, promoting violence, hate, terrorism, racism and other means of indecent actions.

 
Forum

There are some simple rules that you need to follow to avoid any issues with moderators and administrators:

  1. Post your messages in the correct forum. Only if there is no related forum, you can put your post in the GENERAL section or to OFFTOPIC if it is not IT related. Moderators have rights to remove your topics and assign warnings if your topic is not related to the forum.
  2. Keep your answers relevant to the topic in question when you reply to a post. Otherwise, open a new topic.
  3. Do not flood the forum. Post your message only one time. There is no need to create multiple topics with the same content. The same rule applies to the replies. If we find that you posted same messages across the forum, we reserve the right to wipe all your posts from the forum to avoid wasting our time for clean up. Access to your account will be restricted.
  4. Do not post simple meaningless messages. The examples of meaningless messages are: “Thanks”, “That's good”, “I support”, “I don't know”, “congrats”, “I agree/disagree” etc. Be more specific on what you think and share your ideas, views and experiences.
  5. Please do not send messages to the support team with such requests as : “Please help me download….”, “How can I download?”, “Please send me…”. We are not a Pizza delivery service and we are not the right instructors to teach you if you cannot read or understand the FAQ. If you need to request or share a file, then please refer to STUDY GUIDES REQUESTS, SHARES AND EXCHANGE. Whether you request or offer, make sure you put [req] or [offer] in the beginning of subject line . In Members Only Exchange forum [open] or [closed] tags must be used to indicate the availability of resources. Post your braindumps, study guides and other requests only in these forums. Similar requests in other forums will be removed by moderators. If members violate this rule, moderators will raise their warning level or restrict access to the board.
  6. All your opinions, suggestions and questions about how Sadikhov.com operates can be addressed in “Comments about Sadikhov.com” forum.
  7. Members who wish to communicate in languages other than English, can do so in the International Forum. Responses will typically be limited to members who understand your language. Non-english posts in any other sections is a strict "No-no". If members violate this rule excessively, moderators will raise their warning level or restrict access to the board.
  8. Respect other members views and opinions even if you do not agree with them. Do not insult members of the forum. Be nice. If you were insulted by any forum member, please contact the moderators to edit the post and take proper actions.
  9. Select a proper nickname for yourself and decent avatars if you decide to put one. Your account will be removed if it confuses others, contains bad words or anyhow makes others feel uncomfortable. If during registration you made a mistake in your display name , you can change it immediately on http://www.sadikhov.com/forum/change.php page.
  10. Select a proper topic title for your newly created thread. The title should represent the relevance to the forum it is posted in and be clear to other members, so that they know what the topic is about before they open it. We do not expect perfect english on the forum, but please try to avoid grammar mistakes in titles. If you do not know how to spell a word, please use a dictionary.
  11. No advertising in signatures unless authorized by Administrator. Any links to external web sites (passive or active, your own or others) will be considered as unauthorized advertising and rules violation. Only approved members may authorize. Authorized members have a note in their signature that the advertising has been approved. Marking signature as authorized without approval is considered as offence and access to your account can be restricted permanently
  12. There is no need to post articles or news from other web sites, instead please provide a link to the resource with comments. IT Certification News forum is an exception.
  13. Requesting and posting links to warez, cracks, viruses and any other illegal or dangerous software is prohibited on Sadikhov.com. Subject to a permanent ban.
  14. Posting links to scam sites, web sites that meant to collect money or in some way gain profit from visits including refferal links with refferal IDs. For advertising opportunities refer to advertising section or discuss with administrator.

Once again, moderators may remove your post if you break these rules. If you continue to do so, you may be restricted from accessing the forum. Before posting your question, search the forum for information that you are looking for. The topic may already have been discussed.

Some forums do not count your posts. At the time of writing the FAQ, these are:
* Comments about Sadikhov.com
* STUDY GUIDES REQUESTS, SHARES AND EXCHANGE with Subforums
* IT Certification News under General IT
* OFF TOPIC and all its subforums
Do not be surprised that your post count remains the same irrespective of how many posts you make in these forums.

* Post of the Month Award
This award has been introduced in recognition of posts within the Sadikhov forum that are felt to have excelled with regard to their contents being uniquely informative, descriptive, or instructional. For details please refer to the following thread on the forum Post of the Month

* The titles
Upon increasing the number of your posts, you will be given the following titles and ranks:
Newbie - 0 Minimum Posts, 1 Pip
Member - 50 Minimum Posts, 2 Pips
Advanced Member - 150 Minimum Posts, 3 Pips
Super Member - 500 Minimum Posts, 4 Pips
V.I.P. Member - 1000 Minimum Posts, 5 Pips
Honorary members, Moderators and VIP members, may have custom titles.

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Warning System
Warning system is a feature of the board for the moderators to keep track of offensive, bad or spamming posters. The scale varies from 0 to 3, with 0 as a default. There is no certain rules for what reasons and what level of warning you may get penalized, because moderators will use warning system at their own discretion, however if you notice that you've been unfairly punished, please contact the admin with your complaint for review. Moderators have to state a reason for what you have been warned or decreased in warning. Normaly, those members who post along the guidelines of the FAQ will have no impact. All members can observe their warning status and the reasons in their statistics profiles.

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Support Team
* Web site administrator
That's me- FS, in this paragraph I will introduce myself briefly. Here on the site, I will refer myself as Admin or administrator. I am the founder of Sadikhov.com Sadikhov.net and Sadikhov.org web sites. I manage the web sites as well as the forum. Keeping this web site running is not an easy task. Thanks to our members who contribute with their ideas and support. Sadikhov.com is not my primary work. I have a job in a company just like most of you have, which takes my whole day. I have only weekends to work on the web site, but sometimes like all normal people I take vacations. I have a very limited time, so do not expect a prompt reply from me. Nevertheless I try visiting the forum everyday and read new posts, however it is impossible for me to read all of them as the quantity of posts is relatively large. That is why we have moderators. I am not a native English speaker and have never lived in an English speaking country, therefore kindly forgive my grammar and vocabulary mistakes. I fully understand English and Russian and a little bit of Turkish and German. You can write me or PM me in one of these languages; however expect my responses only in English. Please feel free to contact me if you have any issues except:
  1. Those answered on this page. It took me hours to write this page for you, so I assume my efforts deserve your 5 minutes attention to read this page. I don't like those who do not like to read the instructions and I will not repeat anything several times.
  2. Sending you files: I will not send you files even if you are about to fail your exam without it. Plan your exam using your brains. If you need the files that badly, then you have a lot of options to get it. Use Google, PM forum members to help you, buy a book from an official web site or finally reschedule your exam.
  3. Helping you to register on the forum. If you are an IT professional or want to become one, then you should be able to use simple logic to register on the forum. Personally, I am yet to explore all the features of the forum.
I simply ignore similar messages by deleting them, so there is no need to waste both your and our time. The best way to contact me is PM. When contacting me, please list all details of the problem: your userid and password if needed, time when it happened, the actions that you perform, the exact error message that you see, etc. If I do not get enough details of your problem I will not look into it or ask you for additional information. Before reporting your issues, try to troubleshoot the problem yourself. Make sure your troubleshooting actions do not harm Sadikhov.com. I try to handle all requests as soon as I can, but please give me at least 2 weekends before I answer your question.

* Moderators
We have few outstanding members of our community who help running the forum by keeping it clean and growing. They are moderators. Moderators monitor all the posts on the forum. They have a right to change, remove, close and pin the posts. They are smart and know a lot about Sadikhov.com. They will be able to help you in many ways. Please refer to any moderator on the forum to resolve your issue. The moderators have a global coverage which means that they can moderate all forums on the board. So if you found a post that needs moderator's attention, the best thing to do is to use "! Report" button on the upper-right hand corner of the post, the message will be sent to the proper moderator for review.
Moderators can warn you if they think that you violated the rules. Please see the paragraph about warnings for details. They can remove or change your posts by your request. If you have any issues with moderators and you think they abuse their rights, please let the admin know about it as soon as possible, do not indulge in an argument with them, although this is least likely to happen.

* Honorary Members
Honorary members have fewer privileges than moderators, but more than regular forum members. Their opinion is treated the same as moderators' opinion. Honorary members are trusted members and have achieved this level by their outstanding personality and hard work demonstrated on Sadikhov.com. They know the rules, they know the policy, and they also moderate a few forums. Moderators and honorary members may recommend other members to be promoted to Honorary member or Moderator status. If you really want to become one, the only requirement is - we have to like you, trust you and be sure that you can be a part of the team.

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Advertising
Unauthorized advertising or promotion by members is prohibited on the forum. All advertising requests should be sent to the web site administrator for approval. Failure to follow these rules will lead to member's account termination and restriction for further site visits. Currently Sadikhov.com offers advertising packages. More detailed information can be found on Advertising on Sadikhov.com

* Posting Links to other web sites
The forum must not be turned into an advertising board. This won't be allowed to happen. Usually links to software and useful study material can be posted, however if linked with the software, it should not carry any danger to users. If the link points to harmful software, this link will be removed as well. The majority of your links will be removed from the forum if you do not follow these rules, please do not post them there if they are not related to the conversation. Exception: STUDY GUIDES REQUESTS, SHARES AND EXCHANGE. Links can be posted in this forum to provide the path to downloading resources from other web sites. Keep all links passive - non clickable. It is found easy to use [CODE] tag on the forum for this purpose. In most cases your links will automatically become passive once posted, however if it has not happened, then use the procedure above to format them..

* Where to publish links to my web sites?
The place for certification links is here: http://www.sadikhov.com/links.php We only select those links which will be most of the interest to the visitors. The links are free and do not require any registration procedure, neither for accessing nor adding. Please make sure you follow the mentioned criteria before posting links on the links page.
If you own a certification web site, you may register it on our Top Sites list.

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Contribution
If you want to contribute to Sadikhov.com web site, you can do one of the following:
1. Take active participation in the forum and help the community members.
2. Link to Sadikhov.com from your web site.
3. Tell about us to your friends who might be interested in joining our community.

In the future, donation requests may be introduced on the site if there are not enough funds to cover hosting and management needs of Sadikhov.com. Meanwhile if you wish to benefit to Sadikhov.com in monetary way, you may contact the administrator and see what needs for improving the site can be considered, scripts development, design and so on.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q. I have registered on the forum, but have not received a registration e-mail.
A. Most probably your e-mail server blocks our emails. You can avoid this by creating a free e-mail account on Sadikhov.net and then register your account with your new address.

Q. I would like to change my username on the forum.
A. After continuous participation, as time goes by, your nickname reputation is built and changing your username may create confusion for others especially if you were refered by your username in the posts. Reading such posts breaks a chain of sense. Therefore only newbies with less than 50 posts can do this on http://www.sadikhov.com/forum/change.php page. Please think ahead before choosing a nickname.

Q. I have registered on the forum, but I cannot reply to any topic.
A. It can be one of the following reasons:
1. You have not validated your account by email. You have only three days to validate your account. Login to your email that you used during the registration and confirm the account creation. If it has been more than three days, then we suggest creating a new account.
2. Your address has been banned. Please navigate your browser to http://www.sadikhov.com/banned.php page to check if your IP address falls in to the blocked ranges. If that is the case, then it means that someone from your IP pool has violated the rules of Sadikhov.com and therefore has been permanently restricted from posting on the board. Unfortunately due to security reasons there is nothing can be done to unblock your IP range as it will permit all the violators back to the forum. We cannot take such kind of risks and hopefully you understand why. What we would advice you is to try using other ISPs which use different IP addresses pool.

Q. Can you register me on the forum?
A. No. You should create an account for yourself.

Q. Why are there less registered members in statistics than the number counting member IDs on the forum?
A. From time to time inactive members get removed from the system.

Q. If the admin is user number 2, then who is the user number 1?
A Default account on the forum which was disabled for security reasons.

Q. What does term "Sadikhov" stand for?
A. Founder's lastname.

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Abbreviations used on the site

Admin - Administrator
Mod - Moderator
HM - Honorary Member
PM - Personal Message (member to member(s) messaging system on the forum)
SK - Sadikhov.com web site
SG - Study Guides
TK - Testking
AT - ActualTests
DL - Download
P4S - Pass4sure
FS - This is not an abbreviation, this is SK admin's username

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