2) Treat others with respect.
Do not make accusations, declarations on others' character, question their motives, be judgmental, assign them to a group or make any other negative personal commentary of members.
No insulting, antagonizing or personally attacking other users.
Do not suggest that other members should leave or that they otherwise don't belong here.
Do not publicly discuss which site members you don't like, who is on your ignore list or similar.
No misquoting other members when debating, such as with "fixed it for you."
Be respectful of others' religion or lack thereof.
No posting of anyone's personal contact information or members' personal details.
See the "Being Respectful" section below for more details.
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5) Elevate the level of discourse.
No rude, disruptive or disorderly behavior, including excessive low-value posting.
All discussion must be civil.
The use of vulgarity should be avoided and not be gratuitous.
No posting of images that are graphically offensive, grotesque, sickly, have distorted human images or the like, including within the use of avatars. If any such material is functionally necessary pursuant to our Mission, only links should be used, with warning messages next to the link.
No content that is overly distracting from our Mission, such as topics that focus on gratuitous violence or strong sexual material.
Ad hominem attacks on any individual or group is strongly discouraged. Use proper names.
Respond to conflicts and guideline violations in an appropriate manner. See "Dealing with Conflict and Guideline Violations" for details.
See the section "Maintaining a High Level of Discourse - Special Considerations" for more information.
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If you see a problem with a specific post violating the guidelines you can report it to the site staff with the use of the report option grouped with that post.
If you see another member's behavior driving down the level of site discourse, not contained to a single message, you can report it to the site staff.
If you take issue with another member:
Do:
Debate the issues. Attack bad ideas and questionable information.
If a user keeps rehashing the same debate, call for a "Site Issue Evaluation" debate thread on the issues in accordance with our "Site Issue Evaluations - Managing Contentious Issues" policy. Message the staff for details if needed.
Put the user on your ignore list.
Don't:
Do not call other members names such as idiot, troll, liberal (unless self-labeled) or other names.
Do not antagonize other members by calling them out in thread titles.
Do not hunt down random posts by a user to apply negative reputation points.
Do not use PMs or rep messages as a backhanded way to break the guidelines.
Do not attempt to rally a negative campaign against the member.
Do not accuse others of violating the guidelines.
Do not retaliate if attacked; refocus the discussion to the topic, call for the discussion to be kept civil or do not respond.
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