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## Frequently Asked Questions
# Frequently Asked Questions

### Contact

Contact email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

### Moderation guidelines
### Interesting questions

Users posting content that does not belong to the site will be notified and
required to edit their content. Users may post commercially motivated posts to
the Forum section as long as the topic aligns with the main focus of this
site. Users posting obvious spam will be immediately suspended.
* [What Are The Most Common Stupid Mistakes In Bioinformatics?](https://www.biostars.org/p/7126/)
* [Bioinformatics cartoon](https://www.biostars.org/p/16049/)

### User reputation
### Common questions

The number next to a user's name is the sum of upvotes and accepted answers
that user has collected.

### Becoming a moderator

Active users above a certain reputation threshold are periodically promoted to
moderators. You may also explicitly ask for moderation rights or suggest good
candidates on the newsgroup. Inactive users that do not visit the site for
extended periods of time may lose their moderation rights.

### Support for Biostar

Biostar has been developed as an open source software and has been released
with the **MIT licence** thanks to the support from the following
institutions:
Biostar has been developed as an open source software with the **MIT licence** thanks to awards from the following
organizations:

* [The Pennsylvania State University](http://www.psu.edu/)
* [National Institutes of Health (NIH)](http://www.nih.gov/), specifially grant [NIH 5R25HG006243-02, Analyzing Next Generation Sequencing Data](http://ged.msu.edu/downloads/2010-ngs-course-nih-r25.pdf) principal investigator: [Titus Brown (Michigan State University)](http://ged.msu.edu/),
* [US Fish and Wildlife Service Cooperative Agreement](https://www.fws.gov/grants/atc.html): award `F16AC01007`
* [National Institutes of Health (NIH)](http://www.nih.gov/), grant `NIH 5R25HG006243-02`
* [The Pennsylvania State University](http://www.psu.edu/)
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# Moderator guidelines

- how to join slack ... other relevant info
- TODO: how to join slack ... other relevant info

### Moderation guidelines

Users posting content that does not belong to the site will be notified and
required to edit their content. Users may post commercially motivated posts to
the Forum section as long as the topic aligns with the main focus of this
site. Users posting obvious spam will be immediately suspended.

### User reputation

The number next to a user's name is the sum of upvotes and accepted answers
that user has collected.

### Becoming a moderator

Active users above a certain reputation threshold are periodically promoted to
moderators. You may also explicitly ask for moderation rights or suggest good
candidates on the newsgroup. Inactive users that do not visit the site for
extended periods of time may lose their moderation rights.

### How to modify this page

1. Fork the repository at: https://github.com/ialbert/biostar-central
2. Navigate to `docs/forum/mods.md` in your fork.
3. Edit the page via GitHub or on your system then commit to your fork.
4. Generate a pull request to the upstream.
4. Generate a pull request to the upstream.

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