Community Guidelines
The SoftwareTestPilot QA Community is a professional space for software testers. These guidelines apply to posts, comments, questions, answers and profiles.
Our principles
- Be useful
- Be respectful
- Share practical experience
- No spam
- No fake job posts
- No aggressive self-promotion
- No harassment
1. Keep it useful for testers
Share real testing experience, tools, code, questions and career insight. Give enough context that another QA professional can act on it.
2. Be professional and respectful
Disagree with the approach, never the person. Harassment, personal attacks, discrimination and abusive language are not allowed.
3. No harassment
No personal attacks, threats, stalking, unwanted repeated contact, or posting someone's private details. Report it and block the member; moderators review every report.
4. No repetitive promotion
Do not post the same product, course, service or link again and again, or drop promotions into unrelated threads. One clearly labelled post that is useful to testers is fine; referral link spam and unsolicited sales pitches are not.
5. Disclose commercial affiliations
If you sell, own, work for, or are paid or referred for what you mention, tick "This promotes something I sell, own, or am paid or referred for" when posting. Those posts are labelled Promotional and appear under the Promotions filter, not the main feed. Hiding a paid link or affiliation is not allowed.
6. Be accurate
Do not post misleading claims about tools, salaries, certifications or job offers. Cite sources where it matters.
7. Never share confidential data
Never post client or employer data, production URLs, credentials, tokens, internal test data, unreleased product details, or screenshots containing personal or company-confidential information.
8. Keep content appropriate
No sexual, violent, hateful or otherwise inappropriate content. This is a professional workplace community.
9. Own your content
Post your own work, or credit the source. Do not copy articles, courses or paid material without permission.
Reporting and blocking
Use the three-dot menu on any post, comment, question, answer or profile to report it. Choose a reason, such as harassment, confidential data, repetitive promotion or an undisclosed commercial link, and add context if it helps. Reports are private. A person on our moderation team reviews each one; content is never removed just because it was reported. Moderators can label a post promotional, remove content that breaks these rules, or dismiss the report, and every action is recorded.
You can also block a member from their profile. Blocked members disappear from your feed, comments, questions, answers and people suggestions, and you disappear from theirs. Block lists are never shown publicly.
To limit spam, members can publish up to 10 posts an hour, cannot repeat the same post within 24 hours, and can include at most 5 links per post.