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Welcome to the "Well Regulated" sub forum. Please familiarize yourself with our rules, and please keep in mind that even when passion is running at a fever pitch we are civilized and have a right to be treated and talked to with respect...
[quote="mark"]Hello and welcome to the Liberal Gun Club forums. We are happy to have you here. An active community is an essential component of The LGC. Open communication and the exchange of ideas benefits all members and helps to keep the club focused on issues that are important to its members. Remember, however, that your registration does NOT make you a member of The LGC. The forum is open for anyone to exchange ideas, members and non-members alike. We would, of course, encourage you to join the club, but it isn't a requirement. If you wish to join the LGC, please go to our membership page.

New members are encouraged to write an introduction post when they join. It can be as short or long as you like. You can tell us as little or as much as you like about you and why you are here.

The forums are rather friendly - and we aim to keep them that way. We encourage active debates, and they do sometimes get heated, but we ask that everyone keep things civil. Exchange of ideas is encouraged, exchange of internet flaming is not. Please read the list of bannable offenses below so that you get a feel for what we are talking about.

To help us keep out spambots and trolls there are a few restrictions for new users. For example, you won't have access to our Trading Post to list items to buy or sell. Once you reach 10 posts, new user restrictions are removed.

Have fun and welcome aboard!



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So, what do we ban for?

Here is the list of major items (some of which were blatantly pilfered from Pharyngula's rules):



Racism or other bigotry
Its just not tolerated.

Spamming
Using the comments to sell real estate, mortgage assessments, little blue pills, porn, or Russian mail-order brides. Spammers are not tolerated at all; they are expunged without comment.

Morphing
Changing pseudonyms to avoid a previous ban.

Sockpuppetry
Like morphing, but with a specific intent: creating multiple identities supporting a position to create a false impression of popularity

Invidiousness
Repeatedly spewing hateful, resentful comments; or comments intended to cause animosity.

Trolling
Making comments intended only to disrupt the board by provoking regular members of the board into an emotional response. These are usually aggressive new board members who don't like the board and are intent on disrupting it for their pleasure.

Concern trolling
A particularly annoying form of trolling in which someone falsely pretends to be offering advice to favor a position they do not endorse; a creationist who masquerades as someone concerned about the arguments for evolution as an excuse to make criticisms. They like the challenge, the controversy and the argument; so they try to get you to contradict yourself or make unsupportable claims so they can call you on it, while still making it seem that maybe they are just trying to understand.

Indecency
Posting pictures that most would find offensive. Porn pictures, grisly pictures, and maybe even pictures of you :) Generally you will be warned once about these.

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Just for clarification: being a Republican or other non-liberal is not grounds for being banned, nor is disagreeing with your fellow members --- unless you turn it into a crusade to disrupt threads with constant iterations of the same nonsense.


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