Community Guidelines

Etiquette

Abusive posts and insults based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, and other personal attributes will not be tolerated.

You may not make personal attacks on other members either in public forums, private messages or through our email system. This even includes non-swearing name-calling if it is excessive.

Using the name or image of another member in the topic title/description of a post, in your signature, as an avatar or in your posts in a demeaning way is considered an attack and is not permitted.

You may not use profanity. Our profanity filters are enabled and circumventing them may result in an edit/deletion of your post.

Threats of physical violence or death are taken seriously, and your ISP and local law enforcement authorities will be notified.

Gossiping about other members is not permitted.

Trolling or junk posting is not permitted.

Graphic (i.e. severed heads, aborted fetuses), lewd and pornographic images are not permitted.

Posting the contents of a PM or e-mail is not permitted.

Stalking another member is not permitted. This includes following a member from topic to topic and constantly attacking him or her.

Constant complaining about how the board is run is not permitted. This includes constant complaining to other members, whether through PM, posts or the chat room.


The following are not permitted as members:



• Gay-bashers
  
• Religious bigots
  
• Racists
  
• Mentally unstable people
  
• Anyone that the site owner does not like
  
• Anti-Americans
  
  • (In general, those whose postings show a tendency to magnify the negatives, while minimizing the positives of the government, policies, traditions, principles, aims, military and people of the United States of America.  In addition, a single post can be enough to indicate anti-Americanism: i.e., comparing Bush to Hitler, siding with our enemies, blaming the U.S. for 9-11, thinking Barbra Streisand’s words are brilliant, etc.)
    

Our Policy on Liberals

Most political sites that cater to either the left or the right do not allow strong voices of dissenting opinions from the other side. For example, the Democratic Underground makes no bones about banning conservatives immediately.  RightNation.US believes this makes for a rather boring, non-stimulating discussion forum, with everyone just making fun of the other side and backslapping each other.  Conversely, here, it is precisely because we know the other side is so very wrong, that we enjoy entering into debate with them.

So, we welcome liberals. But, we only welcome those that understand that they have been invited as guests, not residents, into a very conservative neighborhood. It is not a neighborhood that they can attempt to take over and not one whose community life they can disrupt.

We welcome reasoned and even heated debate, but we do not welcome any America-haters, over-zealous ridiculing of our conservative beliefs or conservative icons, intentional taunting, over-posting of repetitive points, persistent posting of accusations without backing them up with rational arguments, thread hijacking and other behavior disruptive to our forum.

Is this fair? No, not really. But, it’s probably the most open policy you will find in a partisan web site that still manages to maintain order and civility.

Important Note to conservatives: We will not allow malicious personal attacks on those liberals who attempt to be reasonable and play by the rules. Let us enter into intelligent debate with them instead.

Technical

Signature images may not be larger than roughly 600w x 200h pixels, or in the judgment of administration otherwise hog attention on the page. If your signature exceeds the allotted size or is deemed unacceptable, you will be requested to resize or replace it. Text signature must also adhere to the height limitation.

Avatars: A member may claim exclusive use of an uploaded (not from our own set of in-house avatars) avatar if he was the first member to use it here, and is still active. If the avatar is a copyrighted image, the owner of the image can at any time claim exclusive use, or demand it be removed from any member.

Titles: Custom titles cannot be created with the intent to confuse readers that the user is another real individual. Rules of etiquette also apply here.

Personal Contact Information

Under no circumstances can anyone post personal addresses and phone numbers of anyone.  This includes celebrities. Nor do we support or endorse anyone's decision to do this outside of the forum.

Advertising

Spamming is not permitted.

Blatant promotion of companies, products or web sites is not permitted.

Consistent inclusion of a link for the purposes of promotion of competing companies, products or web sites is not allowed in either post body or signature.

Posting Articles

When posting copyrighted material (such as newspaper articles), please do NOT quote the entire article. Post a few paragraphs and LINK to the subject article.

See this topic for complete instructions.

Defying Administration

Defying administration or the moderators is not allowed, regardless of what you feel about it.

Warnings and Banning

We reserve the right to warn or ban any member who violates our guidelines, disrupts our community or is disagreeable to the site owner.

We appreciate your help in reporting anyone who does not follow our rules by using the Violation Reports Forum. We get very busy, so we may not see it immediately.  And do not let any public lack of action lead you to believe that we have not looked into it or are not doing anything. We may decide the report was not an infraction, or we may have issued a warning, which you cannot see.