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Posting Guidelines
Welcome to Reaching For the Tipping Point!
We are delighted you have decided to become a part of our forum.
Please note that once you have registered, you will be sent an email. You must click the link in your email in order to activate your account. After you have activated your account, you will be able to log in and post.
Reaching For the Tipping Point is here for you to talk about everything related to Scientology, including Scientology front groups, and actions you can take against it. We want to provide a forum that is friendly, helpful, and enjoyable to visit. Please feel free to get involved and post. There is no clique, and this forum is intended to be all inclusive. We need everyone we can get in the movement against Scientology, and we want to see you getting informed as soon as possible.
We support freedom of expression. We will defend your right to speak your mind; however, we feel that speaking your mind can be done in a civil and respectful manner, even when you disagree with someone else. By all means have very detailed, in depth discussions, or debates, even. Just do it politely, and respect other people's opinions.
Chitchatting is fine, as long as it is done on our off-topic board, "Across the Backyard Fence." We welcome people to casually get to know each other. That said...
Please be careful about posting personal information on our board, as this may be dangerous for you. If you want or need to exchange personal information, please feel free to email or private message (PM) the individuals, at your own risk. Because this board has open membership, and most parts are visible to unregistered guests, we have no control over who can read posts, or who is lurking on the board. We can pretty much guarantee that someone from Scientology will be.
Please keep personal issues with other members, other boards, or other people from other boards off of Reaching For the Tipping Point. Please deal with these types of issues privately, or elsewhere.
We would like to keep the rules simple, and therefore, at this time, offer these simple guidelines. This will change if we find it necessary.
Be nice. Don't hit. Don't run with scissors. Try not to make a mess, and if you do, clean it up.
THE ABSOLUTE RULES- No vulgarity or gore. No image spam of any kind.
- No harassment, bullying, or degradation of other members or of the staff.
- No racism or any form of discrimination. It will NOT be tolerated.
- No posting of illegal content or questionably legal content.
- No copyrighted material without permission of the copyright holder unless it falls under the law as fair use.
- No pornography of any kind.
- No incitement of hatred or violence.
- No discussion of intent to commit illegal actions.
- No disruption of the forum or its discussions.
- No impersonation of others.
- No excessive promotion of personal agendas.
- No spam. Commercial spam will result in an instant and permanent ban.
We reserve the right to:- Amend these Guidelines when and as we see fit.
- Ban anyone without warning or notice, if we feel we need to do so.
- Ban anyone who does anything else that we, the owners, of the forum feel may endanger the forum, our web hosting provider, ourselves personally, or any member of this forum.
All problems will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.
If you do something that is clearly meant to defy or challenge the rules, you may be banned permanently and immediately.
Signatures, avatars, and usernames that do not adhere to these rules or are otherwise disruptive to the community will be removed without notice, with the possibility of warnings or bans.
Some things you may want to know:
We will not release any personal information to anyone without a court order, unless it endangers someone for us not to do so. If you post in a responsible manner, you have nothing to worry about on this point.
Until you have made 3 posts, you will need to enter a captcha (random characters shown in a picture) before the server will accept your post or personal messages. This is meant to prevent spam. Posts made on some forums, such as "Across the Backyard Fence," will not add to your post count.
There is a 60 second delay between posts. We consider that one minute is a minimal amount of time to spend constructing a worthwhile post.
The forum is configured to automatically send you email notifications when a thread you have posted to receives a reply. It is also configured to allow email messages sent by staff. If you do not wish to receive these, you can turn them off in your user profile settings. There are many other things which can be configured there also.
If you spot any spam, please do not post to the thread, or click on any links, other than the "Report to moderator" link. Once notified, we will deal with it promptly.
If you see posts or receive private messages that violate the rules, please use the "Report to moderator" link on the specific post or message; it will allow us to get straight to the issue without searching.
If you have any problems with the forum or other members please contact us. We are here to help and to encourage the sharing of ideas without intimidation or harassment.
Ideas about how to improve the forum are welcome, so if you have an idea, please post it in "Forum News, How-to's, Suggestions, and Requests," or send a personal message to a staff member. Questions about how to use features of the forum software are welcome there, also.
Please feel free to start a new thread and introduce yourself in the "Introductions" section. We enjoy meeting new members.
And please read Our Aspirations if you have not already done so.
Once again, welcome to Reaching For the Tipping Point!
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