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Post by The Resister on Jun 17, 2022 18:56:07 GMT
We support the First Amendment
I may not agree with what you have to say, but I would fight to the death to protect your Right to say it. There is an element that doesn't want Freedom and Liberty to work. So they abuse their Liberties. That means we have to have some rules. Please review these and don't make us have to add any more.
1) Do not insult others
2) No threats
3) Do not post anything that is illegal or suggest breaking the law
4) Do not violate copyright laws. You can quote from other sources and post the citing source and / or a link to the quoted material
5) Respect the privacy of others. Do not Dox any member of this board, their friends, or families. Public figures outside the board are fair game
6) Absolutely NO trolling or baiting posters into arguments. Spirited debate and friendly discussion is encouraged. Do not hijack or derail threads
7) Try not to post the Lord's name in vain and refrain from dropping F bombs here
8) Try to make each post at least three sentences long and keep it at about ten paragraphs if possible and minimize the use of multi quotes. You can finish your train of thought in a second posting if you have to. The average male has an attention span of 90 seconds.
The next two rules are not ours. They come from the people that own the platform. We will be as lenient with everyone as humanly possible on them. We want to discuss the subject matter without getting deplatformed
9) The power brokers don't want people to post "hate speech" or racial slurs. They provide some latitude and we will too
10) Beware of posting misinformation (sic) and especially about Covid (We have no idea what the parameters are here, so post with caution when discussing anything the power brokers call misinformation)
Bear in mind nobody pays us to help you network and have a place to post. We give you a part of our lives when we give up our time to accommodate you. Respect us and we will respect you.
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professorx
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Post by professorx on Mar 11, 2024 3:04:48 GMT
Recent experiences have led to us having to revise the rules. We had hoped not to have cumbersome rules but sometimes there are elements that exploit every kind of weakness. This addition is effective immediately and are added to the basic rules. Thank you for your understanding.
11) The author of any thread can decide when the thread is to be locked and the author of a thread is entitled to have the last word
12) Those who violate the rules and especially when it is not their own thread will find offending posts removed and relocated into a separate thread bearing the authors name of the offending post (s)
13) Do not accuse other posters of illegal activity. Report it to the administrator or to a moderator. Feel free to report illegal activity to the proper authorities. If you falsely accuse someone of a crime and the alleged crime is investigated you could be subject to filing a false police report if it proves false and - or it could cause you to be sued for defamation of character - Libel
14) There is a set of rules. You can break them and challenge those in charge to ban you in the false hopes that this board will institute censorship. It is unlikely. If you initiate a flame fest or start an off topic argument or break any other rule the author has the right to defend their position and close the thread. The offending post may be moved to a separate thread as per Rule 12
15) If the author of any thread opens with a violation of the rules or initiates an argument by violating the rules except to defend themselves from a responding poster attacking the author of the thread via a rules violation will find their thread locked.
See there. Now we have more guidelines and yet the efforts to force this board to start censoring posts and - or banning posters has failed for now.
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