1. No personal attacks of any sort are allowed.
2. Nothing above a "G" rating is allowed (this includes profanity and anything of sexual nature).
3. When you start a new topic in a debate forum, it must state a clearly defined question(s) for debate.
4. Stay on the topic of debate. If a topic brings up another issue, start another thread.
5. Support your assertions/arguments with evidence. Do not make blanket statements that are not supportable by logic/evidence.
6. Please search this forum first, for a thread on the debate you wish to start. If the debate is already ongoing, please join in on that thread. If there is not a thread started then you have permission to start one.
*Warnings will be issued for starting threads that already exist.
7. Do not post frivolous, flame bait, or inflammatory messages.
8. Extensive quotes from another source (particularly other websites) should state the source to avoid plagiarism.
9. No unconstructive one-liners posts are allowed in debates (Do not simply say "Ditto" or "I disagree" in a post. Such posts add little value to debates).
10. Spamming (duplicate posts, advertisements, etc) is not allowed.
11. Hacking into other peoples' accounts or the forum will result in instant account banning and IP banning.
12. Do not post personal information about other people (license plate numbers, social security numbers, credit card numbers, phone numbers, etc). Information deemed personal by the moderators will immediately be edited.
13. Appeals and challenges to decisions made by moderators should not be made in public. The proper channel is to send a PM to a moderator and to discuss it directly and in private. For more information on the TOS please click the TOS link.
14. In general all members are to be civil and respectful.
15. Try your best to back your statement up with scientific fact, studies you have read or done.
16. Before posting a thread, please read the rules on
Posting New Threads
*A warning is just a warning, nothing that will get you banned. However, if you continue to start new threads and have been previously warned harsher actions will be taken.
Breaking of the rules above will result in a warning at the minimum. Administrators/moderators are going to watch this forum closely and take harsher action against violators. If you cannot control your actions and think you will break one of the rules above we advise you not to participate in this forum.
Please check this thread and the "starting a new thread" daily for changes. Currently we are still working out all the details, and things may change. We will try to alert everyone when major changes are made....
