Site Rules for Courtesy Between Editors

More than 60 Editors contribute to the Tech Support Alert community and it is important that we all maintain a courteous and civilised relationship between ourselves.

Here are a few simple rules that will help this:

1. Feel free to make wiki-style changes to another editor's review but please do not approve these changes yourself where the changes alter the substance of the review. That would be impolite. Instead email the other editor using the editor's user contact form, to tell them of the changes you have made.  If the other editor does not accept the changes then do not pursue the matter.

If you are only correcting grammar, punctuation and layout then there is no problem in approving changes yourself. It's just when you alter the subtance of a review where you need to be respectful.

2. If you leave comments at the bottom of another editors's review please do not make them anonymous. Instead login so the comments are properly attributed to you.

3. When commenting on another editor's review, never contradict what the editor has said. If you disagree with another editor's review then email the editor directly using the editor's user contact form. If the other editor does not accept your suggestion then do not pursue the matter.

All of this is just part of the golden rule: "Treat others as you would like them to treat you."