Forum Rules

While news and politics certainly engender strong opinions and emotions in many people, we want to keep the forum a fun, stimulating and safe board. We want heated, intelligent conversations and debates, not name-calling, profanity or threats. We will deal with these types of problems quickly and aggressively to protect the integrity of the forum.

Please review these rules and keep them in mind as you enjoy your stay here.

1. Be courteous and respectful. Absolutely no name calling of other members is allowed. Personal attacks, threats, hate speech or stalking are not allowed. Be kind and welcoming to new members.

2. No profanity, obscenity, vulgar, illegal or adult material. It is the sole discretion of the administrator or moderators to determine if posted material is inappropriate, and we will remove such material.

3. No spam, advertising, or affiliate links. You are allowed to have URL's in your signature, but extreme commercial abuse of this is not acceptable.

4. Avoid posting copyrighted material.

5. Do not post personally identifiable information or contents of private messages. This is for the safety of all forum members.

6. Thread etiquette: Stay on topic. Start a new thread if you need to greatly deviate from the subject of an existing thread. Don't duplicate threads in multiple forums.

7. Profiles: Your signature should be no more than 4 lines. They can contain URL's, however extreme commercial abuse will not be acceptable. Avoid abuse of signatures, avatars, usernames, photos or profiles. Just keep it smart and low key and you will be fine.

8. Forum administrator and moderators have the final say in decisions about content or conflicts and have the right to edit, move or delete posts (and profiles) at any time.

9. You must be 18 or older to register on the forum.

The administrator may update these rules periodically to address the changing needs of our community. We will try our best to keep you informed of any major changes to the rules. Anything not expressly stated in these rules is up to the discretion of the administrator or moderators.

Thanks and have fun!