Posting guidelines
- Before posting, please ask yourself if you're actually making a contribution to on-topic discussion.
- Upvote comments you feel follow the first guideline.
- Downvote comments you feel do not follow the first guideline.
- Don't respond to threads that suck.
- If things go towards flame wars, please consider stepping back.
- Safer Space. Sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, etc. content is subject to moderation. We understand that many such behaviors are unfortunately common in society (like calling things "gay" or "retarded") so bans will be reserved for the worst/repeat offenders.
- No Platform. Conspiracy theories, will be removed immediately and the spammer will receive a swift global network ban. Fascist propaganda, will be treated with the similar actions. In that we are very specific about what fascism is: the word has a meaning.
- Stay On target. Off topic posts, low content posts, worthless posts, bumping, etc, will be moderated and removed. Repeat posting of the same off topic posts and spamming of links that have nothing to do with the subject at hand (case in point the Dylan bullshit) will be banned outright. Similarly posters who constantly post off-topic nonsense are straddling the line very close to a ban.
- We do not support an election campaign for 2012. At all. We have removed election material for Obama, Paul, Warren, Paul, Cain, Paul, Perry, Paul, the green party, Paul, Nader.
- Red baiting will be moderated, as this is not 1952 and we are able to debate ideas without insulting anyone even slightly to the left as though they were Stalin reborn. Similarly, people on the right are not necessarily nazis.
- Trolling will be squashed whenever possible/reported/found out.
- Posting people's personal information on the website is prohibited.
If you want to question a ban, also email abuse, we're open to discussion and at least one ban did get reverted; what you don't do is make a slew of sockpuppets. That's the best way for future bans to be immediate and without second thoughts.
Due to software limitations forum posts are limited to about 5,000 characters; that's about 1-2 pages of text. If your posts really need more, you can finish the post in the comments (which can actually take about twice that amount).