Community guidelines
The board exists so people can say what the calculators did or didn't do for them. These are the rules that keep it worth reading.
Everything is reviewed first
No post appears on the public board until a person has read it. You will see your own post straight away, marked as awaiting review, and it becomes visible to everyone else once approved. This normally takes a day or so.
What belongs here
Your own experience
What you were trying to work out, what the numbers told you, and whether it matched reality. Specifics are more useful than praise.
Honest criticism
If a calculator is wrong, confusing, or missing something, say so. Negative reviews are published; this is not a wall of five stars.
Questions about the maths
How a figure is derived, which assumption drives a result, why two tools disagree.
Suggestions
Tools you want, inputs that are missing, things that would make the site more useful.
What gets rejected
Financial advice
Telling other people what to buy, sell, or invest in. Nobody here knows your circumstances, and neither does anyone reading. Describe what you did; don't tell others what to do.
Personal or identifying details
Account numbers, addresses, employers, anything that identifies you or somebody else. Round figures are fine; bank details are not.
Promotion and links
Advertising, affiliate links, referral codes, or posts written to send traffic somewhere else.
Abuse and hostility
Attacks on people rather than ideas, harassment, hate speech, or anything designed to provoke rather than inform.
Anything unlawful or misleading
Content that breaks the law, impersonates someone, or makes claims about returns that cannot be supported.
The practical limits
- 280 characters per post. Long enough for a real opinion, short enough to stay readable.
- Five posts a day per account.
- A free account is required to post. Reading is open to everyone, including people who never sign up.
- You can delete your own posts at any time, approved or not.
If a post is rejected
You'll see it on the board marked as not published, usually with a short reason. Nothing else about your account changes. Repeatedly posting content that breaks these rules will end in the account losing access to the board.
Posts are the opinions of the people who wrote them. They are not checked for accuracy, they are not endorsed by FireMathLab, and nothing on the board is financial advice. If something here needs reporting, use the support page.