OLD THE ATHEISTFORUMS.COM RULES

Philosophos · Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:45 pm Post subject: OLD THE ATHEISTFORUMS.COM RULES

UPDATED - SEE THE AUGUST 25, 2008 POST BY JASON HARVESTDANCER

ATHEIST FORUMS RULES

INTRODUCTION
This forum is intended to be a place where freethought and free speech converge. All creeds, from atheist to theist, are welcome here. In the spirit of free and open dialogue between people of different faiths, you will find this site to be lightly moderated in the hopes of fostering the exchange of ideas.

There are only four rules in this forum, and only one consequence for breaking them.

THE RULES

1. No threats.
2. No spam.
3. No proselytizing.
4. No sock puppets.

THE PUNISHMENT

Permanent Exile. AKA banned forever from the site.

CONCLUSION

The moderators' job here will primarily be to move threads, split threads, merge threads, and delete spam. Other than that, you will almost never hear from the moderators in any official capacity. If you break a rule, or come close to doing so, you might get a warning. You might even get two warnings. There will be no third warning, no argument, and no appeal.

With great freedom comes great responsibility. This realm is yours, and hopefully the posters here will make the most of it.

Happy posting.

Philosophos · Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject:

An informal explanation of the new rules:

As some of the older members here may recall, rules were implemented at the old infidelguy.com forum early this year in order to keep discussion at a moderately civil level. With the birth of these new forums, in addition to thedebatehour.com forum, the moderators have decided to treat the two forums differently to cater to different tastes.

Atheistforums.com will be lightly moderated. Our main concern here will be to keep out spammers, move threads, and deal with only really outrageous behavior such as threats. In short, these forums will be more like the freewheelin' forums of old that some of the membership enjoyed. The mods and admins here will be primarily housekeepers, not nannys.

The same moderators that are here will also moderate thedebatehour.com forums. The moderation at those forums will more resemble our House Rules of old, where harassment, nasty flames, stalking, etc. will not be tolerated. That will keep thedebatehour.com at a more civil level, but at the price of heavier moderation.

I hope you enjoy your two new environments of The Infidel Guy family of websites. Please utilize both to their full potential. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.

Happy posting.
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Hit_me_up024 · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:55 pm Post subject:

I like this forums rules more than other religious forums. Not as strict. nice

Thx everyone
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Moloth · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:57 pm Post subject:

Ultimate freedom and personal responsibility! ^_^
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aitm · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:33 pm Post subject:

what the hell is a sock puppet?
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Wikki quote:

aitm · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:22 pm Post subject:

ah, makes perfect sense. I should have known that by now.
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The reality is: The majority of Christians are, because they have never read the Bible, whereas the majority of Atheists are, because they have. tjb

Tornado_Creator · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 9:01 am Post subject:

I know I'm new here and this is probably widely known already, but what constitutes Spam, Threats or Proselytizing in the opinion of the Admin Team here, I wouldn't want to inadvertently break the rules because of a difference of opinion on what constitutes spam for example. I just thought it's something that would be worth clarifying.

Also I kinda disagree with the proselytizing rule, surely people should be allowed to preach, especially as it would cover debating politics as well as religion.

I'm an Evangelistic Atheist in that I actively tell people my world view in the hope that others will see it's logic and agree with me... is that not the same as religious proselytizing. I would say outward bible bashing and random scripture quoting constitutes spam and already breaks the rules, perhaps it's worth reconsidering that rule, but that's just my opinion and I'm new here so maybe I'm simply reading too much into it or it's a lot more free-form than I originally thought.

Anyway, if someone could just tell me to what extent posts are considered spam etc. that would be appreciated.
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Moloth · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 9:49 am Post subject:

2. No spam.

as in: no commercial advertisements (unless in the Spam forum section), no bots, and no flooding the forum.

3. No proselytizing.
This is an atheist website where we prefer intellectual, factual debate. being screamed at, preached to and talked down to with the same fucking bible versus over and over again is simply not appropriate for this place. Proselytizing != discussion/conversation. its a one way street that we simply do not tolerate. Many of us WERE theists and we've heard enough of all that.
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SpecterOpacus · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 2:11 pm Post subject:

aitm · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 2:18 pm Post subject:

Only I possess the TRUTH, the LIGHT,,,and,,er,,the other thingy
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Knowledge: The cure for religion.
The reality is: The majority of Christians are, because they have never read the Bible, whereas the majority of Atheists are, because they have. tjb

joshuas3521 · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 2:22 pm Post subject:

I'm amazed this has been here since 2006 with only a few posts O.o
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Moloth · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 2:23 pm Post subject:

Raggle Fraggle · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 3:55 pm Post subject:

This is prime real estate on the first page. I'm getting my share.
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Philosophos · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 4:05 pm Post subject:

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