Rules of Conduct

1. Courtesy and Respect: You will be courteous to every member, even those whose beliefs you think are false or objectionable. When debating, express your opinion about a person's ideas, not about them personally. You are not to make negative personal remarks about other members, including negative remarks about their age, disability, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, intelligence, character, appearance, health, mental health, education or any other personal characteristic. You agree not to create posts and discussions intended to criticize or ridicule other members personally.
   
   
   
   
2. Hate Speech: you agree not to engage in hate speech. You agree not to allege that groups or individuals deserve violence, or attempt to dehumanize or degrade them on the basis of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality, religion, or sexual orientation.
   
   
   
   
   
3. Violence: Youwill not advocate illegal violence against or harassment of groups or individuals.
   
   
   
   
4. Disruptive behavior: Youwill notdisrupt or interfere with discussions, forums, or other community functions. Disruptive behavior may include creating a disproportionate number of posts or discussions to disrupt conversation; creating off-topic posts; making statements that are deliberately inflammatory; manipulating topic lists to disrupt conversation; expanding a disagreement from one discussion to another; or any behavior that interferes with conversations or inhibits the ability of others to use thisforum for its intended purposes. .
   
   
   
5. Repeating Posts: Youwill notrepeat substantially the same text in more than one location on on this forum.
   
   
   
6. Any posts violating copyright laws will be edited or removed
   
   
   
7. Vulgarity: You will notdisplay words, information, or images that are vulgar, obscene, graphically violent, graphically sexual, harm minors in any way, exploit images of children, or are otherwise objectionable.
   
   
   
   
8. Illegal activities: You will not solicit or promote the use of an illegal substance, promote illegal activity, or discuss illegal activities with the intent to commit them.
   In addition:

• We have the right to suspend or terminate your membership for violation of the above rules.
  
  
  
• We have the right to reprint fromthis forumdiscussions any post or portion of a post (along with the username of the member who posted it) somewhere else on the site or in any other medium.
  
  
  
• We neither endorse nor are responsible for any opinion, advice, information or statement made or displayed in this forum by third parties, nor are we responsible for any errors or omissions in such postings, or for hyperlinks embedded in messages, nor do we endorse the violation of copyright laws and will not be responsible for anyone who posts andviolates the copyrightlaws.
  
  
• Under no circumstances will we be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on information obtained in this forum. The opinions expressed in this forums are solely the opinions of the participants, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this forum.

Please check these guidelines periodically as they may be revised for the protection of our valued members.


-- Edited by LusNewVoice at 11:35, 2006-12-09