Agreed, we don't need to shout... 
Also would be a good idea to have it less hidden, eg Putting a link up beside the top right navigation , along with the link to Forum rules http://forum.abantecart.com/index.php/topic,2717.0.html
And maybe an" Accept Code of Conduct" tick box for new registrations? That way nobody can feign ignorance of the way we should be treating one another here.

Please check out this proposal for a "Code of Conduct" for these forums. Suggestions and alterations of course are welcome.

Code of Conduct

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This is your community. Most people have a common sense feel for what is and what is not appropriate in a forum and you folks generally do a great job of policing yourselves. We do, however, need to have a few set policies for everyone to refer to when the need arises.

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Thanks, didn't see them earlier.

For others to recognise:
Click Profile > Modify Profile > Notifications
Here you can set options as to how POSTS are notified to you.

Dear Moderators / Forum Admin
can we please have NOTIFY on by default? I mean, if we are starting a discussion, then we want to know when someone else is talking, and so it should be default instead of remembering to click Notify for each thread.

More discussion about this for SMF (this forum engine) here:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=487671.0

This is not a question, but rather a helper for anyone else out there that may prefer to develop on NGINX in their localhost;
My AC version is 1.2.9, laptop running Mintlinux 18.1 with Nginx 1.10 and PHP-FPM 7 and Mariadb.
Note , because it is in localhost, and I need speed, there is no SSL configuration. Ask if you need help with that.
Also, I have nginx running as me , so it is capable of writing log files to where it easiest for me to get them!

So, my /etc/nginx/sites-available/default has this added to it:

server {

        listen 80;
        server_name mydomain.com;

        access_log /home/onyx/logs/abantecart.log;
        error_log /home/onyx/logs/abantecart_error.log ;

        # root is AbanteCart's public_html directory
        root /home/onyx/htdocs/abantecart;
        index index.php index.html index.htm;

        # Prevent directory listing
        autoindex off;

        # rules applied in root of our config
        location / {

                # include AbanteCart rules
                try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.php @abantecart_rules;

                # php settings (may differ on your server)
                location ~ \.php$ {
                        #fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
#change this to suit your setup for fastcgi!!
                        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9001;
                        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME     $fastcgi_script_name;

                       

                        include fastcgi_params;
                }

        }

        # rewrites our query strings properly for AbanteCart
        location @abantecart_rules {
                rewrite ^(.*)\?*$ /index.php?_route_=$1 last;
        }

        # No direct access allowed for .tpl files
        location ~ \.tpl {
                deny all;
        }

}
Then in /etc/hosts you will need
127.0.0.1 mydomain.com
Don't forget you need to edit these as Superuser, and then restart the nginx server with
sudo service nginx restart
Questions and comments welcome

Good to see even my idiocy is not wasted!

Oddly, CATEGORIES just started working!
Content still isn't.