Rules

No company logos may be included in posts apart from those of our official sponsors when they are making a post.
No accounts may be created by a company or use a company name in their title or user name without permission from the Finance & Banking Society.
No advertising of products or services may be included in posts without explicit special permission granted by the Finance & Banking Society.

Any posts violating these rules will be removed by our moderators and the user posting them will receive a warning email. Repeatedly violating these rules will result in a permanent ban from FINSOC Questions.

Asking, Answering and Commenting Questions

What kinds of questions can I ask here?

Most importantly - questions should be relevant to this community. Before you ask - please make sure to search for a similar question. You can search questions by their title or tags.

What kinds of questions should be avoided?

Please avoid asking questions that are not relevant to this community, too subjective and argumentative.

What should I avoid in my answers?

FINSOC Questions is a question and answer site - it is not a discussion group. Please avoid holding debates in your answers as they tend to dilute the essence of questions and answers. For the brief discussions please use commenting facility.

Also, see the rules at the top for what not to include in your answer.

Who moderates this community?

The short answer is: you. This website is moderated by the users. Karma system allows users to earn rights to perform a variety of moderation tasks. The Finance & Banking Society executives will also moderate the website to ensure that the aforementioned rules of posting on FINSOC Questions are adhered to.

How does karma system work?

When a question or answer is up-voted, the user who posted them will gain some points, which are called "karma points". These points serve as a rough measure of the community trust to him/her. Various moderation tasks are gradually assigned to the users based on those points.

For example, if you ask an interesting question or give a helpful answer, your input will be upvoted. On the other hand if the answer is misleading - it will be downvoted. Each vote in favor will generate 10 points, each vote against will subtract 2 points. There is a limit of 200 points that can be accumulated per question or answer. The table below explains reputation point requirements for each type of moderation task.

add comments -> 0
delete comments -> 400
close own questions -> 60
reopen own questions -> 120
retag questions -> 150
edit any answer -> 400
open any closed question -> 600
delete any comment -> 400

What is gravatar?

Gravatar means globally recognized avatar - your unique avatar image associated with your email address. It's simply a picture that shows next to your posts on the websites that support gravatar protocol. By default gravar appears as a square filled with a snowflake-like figure. You can set your image at gravatar.com

To register, do I need to create new password?

No, you don't have to. You can login through any service that supports OpenID, e.g. Google, Yahoo, AOL, etc. Login now!

Why other people can edit my questions/answers?

Goal of this site is... So questions and answers can be edited like wiki pages by experienced users of this site and this improves the overall quality of the knowledge base content. If this approach is not for you, we respect your choice.

Sponsor Answers

What are sponsor answers and why to they rise to the top of the answers for questions?

Sponsor answers are official answers from the Finance & Banking Society's industry sponsors. Being a university society, one of our primary goal's is facilitating a dialog between students and their future employers. Some of the questions students may have can be best answered by the staff of the companies who work in the industry every day.

Our sponsors are not able to answer every question, however each week the Finance & Banking Society will submit popular questions to our sponsors to add their take on the matter.

For this reason it is important that you as a student, vote up the questions you find relevant and interesting as this will help us determine which questions to have our sponsors take a look at.

I represent a company and am interested in contributing sponsor answers?

To be able to post sponsor answers which are automatically displayed at the top of a set of answers to a question, you must be a sponsor of the Finance & Banking Society. For a copy of our sponsorship prospectus and sponsorship pricing, please feel free to contact the society at mail@finsoc.org.au.

Platform

I represent a student society unaffiliated with the Finance & Banking Society in a different area of study. Can you help me offer a similar service to my members?

The answer is yes. We are very excited about the possibilities this new format of forum has for people in all areas and at all levels of education. Please contact us at mail@finsoc.org.au for more information.

Feedback

How do I make a suggestion for an improvement to FINSOC Questions or the Finance & Banking Society in general?

Please visit the Feedback page on the Finance & Banking Society website. This is no ordinary feedback page! We use this innovative solution to listen to our members to constantly improve our services and give our members what they want. Select the appropriate tab and enter your suggestion to see if it already exists. If it already exists, vote for it so that we can prioritize it. If it does not exist, please submit your suggestion in detail. We will keep you posted on the progress of your suggestion by email. If you really want it done, get your friends to vote up the suggestion too.

I have found a bug with your website. What is the best way to have it fixed?

Visit the Feedback page on the Finance & Banking Society website and and click on the "Bugs" tab, type in your bug description to see if someone has already submitted it. If someone has submitted a bug, vote for the bug so that we can prioritize it. If no-one has entered the bug, please submit the bug. Our executive team constantly monitor this page and will assign a status to the bug so you can make sure we are resolving it.

Still have questions?

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