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This forum exists to facilitate civil discussions and debates. Condescending, rude, and annoying remarks and insults are awarded with temporary and permanent bans. People who seek actual discussion and debate about the issues will find the forum rules intuitive. Those who seek to bully, insult, annoy or spam will not last long on the forum.

* The primary forum rules follow below. Your registration will indicate that you agree to abide by all of the forum rules. Discuss the issue, not the poster is the forum motto.

Main Forum rules:

* Rule 1: No direct personal attacks (i.e. Person X is an idiot.)

* Rule 2: No indirect personal attacks (i.e. I dislike Person X's idiocy.)

* Rule 3: No trolling. Trolling is defined as baiting or provoking another poster with rude, disrespectful, or condescending remarks. Trolling also includes posting up comments that de-rail thread topics with nonsense.

* Rule 4: No speculation about the personal lives of other posters.

* Rule 5: Moderators keep discussions civil, enforce forum rules and are also bound by forum rules. They give their own political opinions, and their opinions are not the opinions of the forum. Moderators maintain the quality of political discussion and therefore moderators are empowered to edit and delete posts as well as to ban posters who they deem as degrading the civil atmosphere of the forum.

 

* Rule 6: Personal aggression, condescension, rudeness, racism, bigotry, are banable offenses. The forum does not tolerate personal drama pushed into political discussions and forum business. Posters who make their own membership an issue for discussion open themselves up to the possibility of a moderator closing their account for them.

 

* Rule 7: No public questioning of individual moderator's fairness are allowed. Any complaints about individual moderators must be reported using the report post feature.

 

* Rule 8: Moderators reserve the right to remove posts and posters that create the following forms of low quality posting: misrepresenting or distorting another poster's comments or actions, nonsensical and illogical remarks, or general stupidity. Moderators can issue bans for insults, trolling, low quality posting, spam and remarks or actions which moderators feel are beneath the standards of the forum. Low quality posters may be banned at the moderators discretion depending on the severity of the individual comment, post, or thread.

 

* Rule 9: Do not create more than one account.

 

* Rule 10: Insults conveyed over private messages are treated the same as insults on the forum. When infractions are awarded, a private message is automatically sent to the offender. Mouthing off to the moderators will result in additional penalties.

 

The private message system is intended for the benefit of the members of this forum to share personal things with each other which they are not comfortable sharing with the forum at large or to develop bonds. It is a privilege provided by the moderators of the forum for the enjoyment of the members. In the past, small numbers of posters who were unable to follow forum rules nor capable of succeeding in creating fruitful discussions, formed anti-moderator factions. Those posters relied upon half-truths and common political agendas as a basis to bash moderators and encourage the spread of moderator bashing over the private message system. The result of this was a movement away from civil discussion on the issues towards unnecessary personal conflict and drama. The end result has always been the same for anti-moderator factions: permanent ban for all members of the faction.

* Rule 11: Using the private message system to bash moderators or the forum is an offense subject to a permanent ban for ALL participants involved.

 

* Rule 12: The forum takes no responsibility for any of the views expressed or the information released by people who join this forum and express opinions or post information.

 

If your only reason for being on this forum is to promote your own website, then don't bother posting. Your posts will be deleted and you will be banned. This is a political discussion forum, not spam town. Asking political questions to mask advertising will not work.

* Rule 13: Do not create threads or posts designed to advertise for your site or webpage.

 

* Rule 14: Do not link to other political forums or consumer goods or services in your signature. You may link to political blogs and non-political forums in your signature.

 

* Rule 15: All threads and posts that copy and paste an article as a new thread MUST be accompanied by an ORIGINAL COMMENT by the thread starter that poses a question or says why the article is important or makes a commentary on the article he/she is presenting. Threads that copy and paste an article must be accompanied by a link to that article where possible.

 

* Rule 16: Do not post the same thread in multiple forums

 

* Rule 17: "Goodbye threads" are only allowed if they state a personal reason for leaving the forum and they are not used to violate other forum rules, like making accusations against the forum staff.

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