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About our moderators…
- We have a team of moderators from mixed backgrounds, politics, countries, genders and beliefs. When we make moderation decisions, they are applied against the rules of engagement and not our personal bias. We are also volunteers; we do this for you! For the most part it is a thankless job and not without it’s rewards or frustrations.
Abusing the moderators will not be tolerated!!! - Moderators who engage as regular comment posters may not moderate a specific conversation that they are in. They must call upon another moderator to intervene if necessary. This is to prevent any appearance of personal bias, particularly when it comes to deleted comments. Please note, however, that any posters found to be taking advantage of this will be dealt with harshly.
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- No racist, bigoted, homophobic, transphobic, or sexist comments.
- Insulting a Politician or other public figure (while allowed) must not be racist, bigoted, homophobic, transphobic, or sexist.
- No generalizing about entire non-political groups of people (religious, racial, gender, sexuality, etc)
- General bashing of lefties, righties, conservatives, liberals, Democrats, Republicans etc. is fine so long as it is not racist, bigoted, homophobic, transphobic, or sexist.
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- homo, tranny, fag, n-words, cracker, etc.
- calling an entire group of people stupid, or “mentally ill” or such
- The word “retard” (or any derivative like “libtard” or “contard”) is unacceptable on this channel and will be removed without explanation. The same applies to any denigrating comments about people with disabilities. While “dotard” is not a derivative of “retard” it is still an insult that, although it may be used on public figures, may not be used on channel members.
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- English Only: This is an English only forum, all posts that are not in English will be deleted. Single words or phrases that are a discussion point may be allowed at the moderator’s discretion.
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- No posting in ALL CAPS or all bold or all spoiler – this is considered rude in internet etiquette.
General Channel Rules
- No “sock puppets” (alternate accounts) with which you either engage with your own account or with which you circumvent a ban or any other moderator directive.
- Do NOT abuse the flag feature (Result may be a permanent ban).
- Stay on topic, and please move on if directed by a moderator to do so.
- PLEASE DO NOT BLOCK THE MODERATORS!: If you do so then you you run the risk of not receiving moderation direction from them, which may result in a ban. While we are not going to hunt you down to see if you are blocking us we WILL ban you if you indicate that you have done so or if you do not respond to attempted moderation. Please note that if you are viewing Disqus on a mobile device that the platform neglects to indicate the mod tag on moderators. You will simply have to be aware of who the moderators are by viewing the About section of the channel.
- Please follow the directions of the moderators. If you feel something is unfair then please take a look at our rules. If you still think it is unfair then please start a RESPECTFUL thread on our complaint resolution channel: TBA.
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theunknownsleeper 2019/08/02
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