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If I am mistaken, please underline the part for us.
RULES:
-No death threats or threats of violence against anyone are allowed. That means other forum members, members of Congress, the President, or simply put, anyone in the world.
-No discussion of private information about posters real names, locations, employment, personal pictures, personal information, or anything other than what a poster has freely expressed, or shared in profiles, or in discussions here in Political Jack.
-No reliving old wars from other websites unrelated to Political Jack. Leave your Flame Wars and old website boards and information behind.
-No calls for revolution or other formal protests against the government or anyone.
-Keep swearing to a tolerable level.
-No name calling or personally attacking posters. If you are reported you may receive an infraction or a warning. Just comment on the POST, not the POSTER.
-Racism will not be tolerated. That may include degrading, stereotyping commentary that may be deemed as related to racism by Moderators. Report offensive posts. White and Black are not racist words.
-Bigorty will not be tolerated: Reported offenses will be subject to the rules process based on moderator review.
-No posting sexual, violent, gory images, and of course anything illegal according to United States laws.
-No discussion of moderation actions on the forums. If you have reported a post or if you think someone has reported a post, it is not permitted to post this publicly. You may contact Lead Moderators Jen or Minotaur directly with questions and concerns.
-No Self moderating publicly (examples: you are a troll/spammer/off topic/etc.) If you see a problem with a post calling them out on the forums is against the rules. Rather click the "report post" button on the bottom left of their post and submit it to the Moderators for review.
-No Toppost Callouts: No starting threads about other members to bash them, hate on them whether name is used in title or body of thread. Do not personalize Toppost bashing. These will be deleted and infractions may be issued.
-No Poster Named Topposts are allowed, not even created to illustrate a point, or induce further political discussion of an issue being discussed in another thread, or for any reason. Moderators may merge continued discussions with Toppost names back into original conversation or work with posters to repost without names. The only board exception to this rule is well-wishing and Birthday wishes which is allowed on the General Board.
-No Hijacking for the sole purpose of attacking posters: If someone you don't like makes a comment on your post this is NOT hijacking. They have the right to comment on your posts anytime as long as they don't attack you and rather are there to argue a topic with you. If they jump into a thread or post of yours to make a personal attack or habitually convert the subject to discuss the poster then that is what we consider hijacking.
-No Baiting when it is extreme and has replaced debating style with baiting style: If a Poster is fully dedicated to baiting, rarely debating issues and insists on converting most topics they post on from substance to personal then serious baiting may come into play. When a thread is posted about any subject and a poster constantly jumps in on threads to post insults like "You have no clue about anything do you?" or "Figure's you'd spell that wrong" or anything along those lines meant to start a fight or convert a topic and they rarely debate topics, we consider this baiting. If baiting becomes a habit to the point that any poster baits more than debates at the expense of other posters then it becomes a problem that may involve Warnings, Infractions or Banning if it continues. If you initiate the baiting then you have a problem. These are loose examples.
-No Plagiarism: If you copy an article from another website there must be a sources provided. Entire articles are not allowed and your own comment must be included with the article copy paste. Generally the how to is:
1. Your comment about article
2. Internet link directly to article
3. Writer and website name
4. 1/3rd of article minimum must be removed.
5. Refer posters to complete article with the link to article.
Ramblings of unnamed "wandering thoughts" spammed in emails, and other non-articles should contain the word "email" as source. Jokes are generally just jokes and most have no writer source so unless it is Letterman top ten, or some known source we don’t knock “knock, knock” jokes.
-No Multiple Accounts and Sockpuppets. You may have 1 login to PJ. Having more than one is an automatiic perma-ban offense on every one of the identities and future identities.
Don't take things too serious! Just have fun, post your opinions, maybe sway some Posters to your side of the fence, and enjoy the conversations along the way!
Infractions:
-If you violate any rules you may be given an infraction
-Each infraction = automatic deduction of 20 Jack Bucks
-3 infractions = 3 day suspension
-Infractions go off your record after 33 days
-If you get multiple suspensions you will be banned
-Political Jack also reserves the right to ban at anytime if you give us reason to. Death threats to forum members or politicians for example may result in an instant ban.
