How To Be Civil

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How To Be Civil; and what happens if you are not
Topic Started: Dec 11 2005, 02:13 PM (972 Views)
Post #1 Dec 11 2005, 02:13 PM	eye95
Free Speech is something the government promises not to violate. At Civility, we only promise not to restrict your speech as long as you are civil. The following are not considered "civil," are subject to moderator edits, and have consequences. ---------- Minor incivility: Non-vulgar profanity (If most people would not have routinely used the word to talk to Mom when they were 7, it is profane.) Name-calling (Do not call others names, even if they do not post here. Moore is spelled M-o-o-r-e, not M-o-o-r-O-n.) ---------- Major incivility: Violating any of InvisionFree's Terms of Service Spamming Vulgarity, including vulgar profanity Ad hominem attacks (Go ahead and be blunt in judging what a person says and does. Do not make comments about the person himself.) Racism (This does not include intellectually pointing out a well supported fact.) Calls for violence Threats Violating the privacy of another person--member or not. ---------- At mod discretion, minor incivilities will increase the warning level by 1. The post will be edited or deleted. Major incivilities will increase the warning level by 2. When the warning level reaches maximum (5): First time - 1 day suspension Second time - 7 day suspension Third time (you just don't get it.) - Lifetime. You may reapply to me personally after 1 year. I will most likely say, "No." After suspension, warning levels will be returned to 0. After a month of no warnings, members who have been a member all month and who have posted during that month will have their warinin level reduced by 1. ----------- Trolling by new members can result in immediate banning without going through the warning system at the administrators' discretion. Trolling is loosely defined as joining a site and posting on it just to be antagonistic. ----------- Commercial advertising, particularly by brand new members, may result in immediate banning instead of warnings at the administrators' discretion. After the banning, you may appeal it in a section that will become visible to you upon your banning. You will only be able to see a few threads and only post in the appeal thread. Even just a single commercial advertisement by a new member, Admins will likely automatically assume that the new poster is merely a spammer and take immediate action.	Administrator Posts: 2,647 Group: Editor-in-Chief Member #1 Joined: December 11, 2005



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