Last edit on — 22 january 2019.
Usually IT specialists and those who are interested in this field are cultured people who respect not only themselves but also their interlocutors and readers. In order for the resource to remain a platform for communication of such people, there are rules according to which the moderators can lower the account rights to ReadOnly.
We highly recommend to use corporate blogs and «I’m advertising» hub to attract attention to your projects, companies, commercial products, services, and events. Product placement outside of these sections will lead to account rank reducing.
The exception to the rule applies in case the author of the post mentions the position in the company (without a link to the corporate website), contact details (including the links to personal accounts in social networks), and personal blogs on major media resources (LJ, Medium, etc.). It is allowed to mention youtube channels, chatrooms and groups in social networks that do not bear the name of the project, company, product, service or event.
You should not copy content published by other people on other resources, but it is allowed to copy your own texts if they do not violate the rules of the resource.
Monosyllabic posts like "See what I found a link", "Chrome updated, here's a changelog" are not welcome. Even if the news is initially short, try to accompany it with an expanded commentary.
If you have problems with a cellular operator, with an Internet provider or hosting, or with something else, you can always contact the support service for the resource you need. Or with the competent authorities. But you should not use Habr as a book of complaints, in order to tell everyone about the situation that has reached you.
We do not accept a communication with images only. An image illustrating your idea should be accompanied by a text comment, which excludes the ambiguity of its interpretation. Large images should be placed under the spoiler so users do not have to waste time scrolling.
The topic of our resource is defined quite clearly. For reasoning about politics, there are much more suitable sites. But not Habr.
Here, too, everything is simple: there are projects specially created for raising funds. Habr is not one of them.
Even if the gramatics was not your favorite subject, you probably have a spell check in the browser, you should not neglect it. This will save both your karma from the minuses and your account.
Rough language, insults, transitions to personalities, euphemisms, trolling – any of these is a good way to quickly and reliably change the current status of your account to ReadOnly.
Do not disturb other users by: asking to change someone's karma or upvote a post; requesting for consultation (there is a Habr Q&A service for for asking tech questions); requesting for help in setting up something or solving a problem (there is a Habr Freelance service for searching for assistants and performers); requesting to participate in a survey or to express opinion about something; requesting for resume or job offers (there is a Habr Career service for such purposes); reviewing the company user is working in or asking questions to this company; drawing attention to any project, product, event or service.
It's always nice to talk to an intelligent person, but to create additional accounts for cheating on karma and votes with them is not worth it.
The list of violations remains open, because you can always come up with something that is not described above. In such cases, moderators are guided by common sense and own sense of beauty. Discuss their decisions and create agitational publications on this topic is not worth it. If they banned someone, it means that they had a pretty good reason.
As you can see, nothing is complicated in the rules, and we will be grateful if you observe them.