Rules & Regulations
The Science Careers Forum allows you to post questions and respond to questions posted by your peers. The following information will explain how the forum works and the rules that we ask all participants to abide by. If you need further assistance or have any comments please post them to the Forum or e-mail us at forum-help@sciencecareers.org.
Science Careers Forum Terms & Conditions
By using this Forum, you are indicating your acceptance to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. AAAS may revise these Terms and Conditions at any time by updating this posting. Visit this page periodically to review the Terms and Conditions which are binding on you.
- You agree to provide an e-mail address as a way of verifying the source of your posting and as an alternative method of communication if we need to direct additional help or resources to you. You may choose not to have your e-mail address or organization name displayed publicly by un-checking the box next to your e-mail address and/or organization name when posting a new message. Your e-mail address will not be accessible to spammers.
- You agree to use a name when posting. If you prefer not to use your real name, use an alternative name but please do not use nicknames, screen names, or "chat room handles."
- You agree, through your use of this Forum, that you will not use this Forum to publish any material that is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy or that otherwise violates any law.
- You agree not to post, upload, or transmit any message, data, image or program or otherwise use the Site in any manner that would violate the proprietary or property rights of others.
- You agree not to delete or revise any material posted by any other person or entity.
- You agree not to post material that contains viruses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, or other computer programming routines or engines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data, or information.
- You agree not to take any action which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on this website's infrastructure.
- You agree not to post, upload, transmit, or otherwise publish any material containing advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, solicitation of funds, or solicitation for goods and services.
- You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of or visitors to the Site.
- You hereby agree to hold AAAS and its affiliates, subsidiaries, licensees and assigns and the Forum moderator harmless from and against, and hereby waive any right to pursue, any claims of any nature arising in connection with the inclusion in, publication via or display on the Site, or any other use authorized under these Terms, of any content or information submitted to the Site by you.
AAAS is not responsible for the contents of any message or other Forum posting. Messages and other posted content express the views of the author and not necessarily the views of AAAS. Users are solely responsible for their own communications and are solely responsible for the consequences of their posting(s).
Although AAAS does not and cannot review every message posted and is not responsible for the content of posted messages, AAAS reserves the right to delete (or refuse to post) material it deems detrimental or not pertinent, or that conflicts with these Terms and Conditions, but does not assert any right to edit material posted. AAAS has the right to limit or terminate your access to the Forum and/or deactivate or delete any screen names, profiles or other information associated with you for any reason, including, but not limited, to violation of these Terms and Conditions. AAAS has no liability or responsibility to users for performance or nonperformance of such activities.
AAAS, Science Careers, the Forum moderator and Advisers do not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of communications posted by users or endorse any opinions expressed by users. You agree that any reliance on material posted by other users will be at your own risk.
These Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and AAAS with respect to the use of this Forum. Certain areas of this website are subject to additional terms of use. By using such areas, or any part thereof, you agree to be bound by the additional terms of use applicable to such areas.
Help with Using Forum
Thread Mode vs. Message Mode
Thread: A thread is started by posting a new question or topic. Each message posted in response to the original question becomes part of the thread.Message: Each posted question or response is considered a message.
Default view: by Thread and Date in chronological descending order.
At the very top of the forum there is a drop-down field that allows you to choose to view the forum by Threads or Messages.
By choosing Threads the Forum will sort the contents by each individual Thread in chronologically descending order (most current threads first).
By choosing Messages the Forum will display Messages in chronologically descending order (most current messages first).
Sorting By Subject, Author, or Date Posted
From either the Thread mode or the Message mode you can sort the threads or messages by Subject, Author, or Date Posted. An arrow pointing up or down next to the column header (Subject, Author or Date) indicates which column you are currently sorting by. If the arrow is pointing upward you are sorting in ascending order, if the arrow is pointed downward then you are sorting in descending order.
Sorting by Subject
By left clicking once on the word Subject at the top of the column you can sort the Threads or Messages in alphabetical order in ascending or descending order.
Sorting by Author
By left clicking once on the word Author at the top of the column you can sort the Threads or Messages in alphabetical order in ascending or descending order.
Sorting by Date
By left clicking once on the word Date at the top of the column you can sort the Threads or Messages in ascending or descending order.
Viewing Threads or Messages by Time Period
Default: All
By using the drop down at the top of the forum, you may choose to view only Threads or Messages from the last 60 days, 120 days, 1 year, 2 years, or All.
Selecting the number of Threads or Messages you view on a page
At the bottom of the Forum you will see a drop down which will allow you to select the number of Threads or Messages that you see on each page. If you are in Thread mode you will see the choice of "threads per page" if you are in Message mode you will see the choice of "messages per page."
Moving from page to page
You can either choose the Page you are viewing by using the Page Drop Down at the bottom middle of the Forum, or click on the Next option located at the bottom lower right of Forum, which shows the number of Threads or Messages you are currently viewing.
To Start a Thread
Click on Start New Thread button at the top right of Forum. You will be directed to a page where you can post your message. Please note: You can choose not to have your e-mail address or organization name displayed publicly by unchecking the box next to your e-mail address when posting a new message.
To respond to a Message
Click on the hyperlinked message in the Subject column. You will be directed to a page where you can post your response to any given message.
If you have any further questions please contact us at forum-help@sciencecareers.org
