The staff would like to remind users of Rule 2:
Participants in this thread would do well to familiarize themselves with prohibited conduct and avoid it in the future.
Article: Rule 2 – Civility Rules
The purpose of this website and forum is to promote the exchange of ideas in a civil manner, upholding the value of freedom of speech. In order to fulfill this purpose certain exchanges between users which are unproductive are prohibited. In addition, material very likely to provoke such exchanges may not be posted on the boards. This includes, but is not limited to;
- a) Racial, ethnic, religious and other slurs solely intended to demean a person for a group identity. A non-exhaustive set of examples includes “Nigger”, “Kike”, “Spic”, “Faggot”, “Slant”, etc.
- b) Entering a thread solely to insult another poster without addressing the topic at hand.
- c) Posting inflammatory content in an attempt to bait other users to violate the rules.
- d) Coordinated efforts to overwhelm a single poster (eg ‘dogpiling’) by a group of other posters.
- e) Accusations of being or belonging to a political extremist group or holding an extremist ideology, unless the poster self-identifies as such or can be proved to be such, with the accuser having the burden of proving their accusation.
- f) Drastically derailing a thread from the topic established by the original poster.
- g) Attempts to organize harassment of posters, individuals, or other websites.
- h) Harassing behaviour toward another member.
Participants in this thread would do well to familiarize themselves with prohibited conduct and avoid it in the future.