Posting Guidelines For Maryland and Child Forums (condo, lawyers)

[Ibginnie]

*When starting a new thread, please do not post only a link or a video. Other members may not know what your intent was if that is all there is. Also, subsequent posts may be off topic if they have no idea what topic you wanted to set forth with your link/video. Add a line or two to let the readers know your thoughts.

OPs in a thread that have no supporting thoughts will be deleted, but may be re-posted with commentary.

*Chain emails and copy and pastes are not permitted.

*When reporting duplicate threads, please include a link to the original.

*Threads that can be construed to be "race baiting" will be deleted and the OP may be infracted. Titles such as, "How come blacks..." and "White Trash rednecks..." and "Did you notice That Asians..." etc. are just a sampling of those types of threads. Please report any such threads.

*If you do not like the topic, skip the thread. It will die if no one keeps bumping it to the top of the forum with posts about how dumb the topic is.

OR

Keep posting in threads you don't like and keep them active.

*Personal attacks and trolling are getting out of hand, folks. Please report instead of answering. Infractions WILL be given to BOTH the attacker and the posters that answers with an attack of their own.

*No matter how worthy the cause, petitions of any kind are not allowed anywhere on any City-Data forum.

*Folks, I'm letting you know this is in the TOS

Do not quote or talk to trolls or your posts will also be deleted. Use the report feature instead.

Once you reply to trolling posts you then often become a troll also. Answering and antagonizing is every bit as bad what the troll did. Infractions may ensue if you partake in this.

*I appreciate the reports but, you need to know, we mods do not live here. We do get to reported posts when we see them. We don't allow them, condone them or sympathize with trolls.

*And again this needs to be highlighted.

Ignore and report. Ignore and report. Ignore and re................................................ ..........

*Please remember that hotlinking a photo, picture, graph, chart, or any image that comes from a website that has a copyright notice displayed is definitely not acceptable.

Hotlinking is directly transferring that image from another website to your post here. That has inherent ethical issues in itself. With that said, many websites do not consider the images displayed on their site in the public domain. Please make sure the image you are using is not from a copyrighted site.

Even if you upload a copyrighted photo (or any image) taken from another website to your own hosting site (photobucket, flickr, etc.) doesn't mean that it is acceptable to display in a post ...you're still using a "stolen" photo to use in your post here.

A simple rule we like to stress is if the photo is one you took, please feel free to transfer the image to your post here at C-D forums. If it is not an image you own or a photo you took yourself, post a LINK to the image instead of hotlinking or transferring the image to your post.

This is very important and can never be repeated too often.

*Changing others' posts that you have quoted, is not permitted. Do not change others' posts...EVER. It is trolling and violaters will be infracted. If you see it being done please report.

*We are not here to decide what's true and what is not, period. If we wanted to do that, we'd hire a bunch of experts from lawyers to doctors to engineers and programmers for the technical forums, instead of a random group of volunteer mods. Please, remember that.

*Evidently, many need to be reminded again.

Do not quote or talk to trolls or your posts will also be deleted and YOU may be infracted. Use the report feature instead.

Once you reply to trolling posts you then often become a troll also. Answering and antagonizing is every bit as bad what the troll did. Infractions may ensue if you partake in this.

*I appreciate the reports but, you need to know, we mods do not live here. We do get to reported posts when we see them. We don't allow them, condone them or sympathize with trolls.

*And again this needs to be highlighted.

Ignore and report. Ignore and report. Ignore and re................................................ ..........

*Please, people, understand this

You do not have the right to put down others' beliefs, religious or otherwise.

It IS that simple.

[Ibginnie]

We would greatly appreciate it if you would report what you believe are duplicate accounts. When you do so please include the name(s) of who you think it is.

Members that are not moderators spend much more time reading the forum. We do not read every post and mostly depend on YOU to help us out with reports.

[Ibginnie]

If you suspect someone is trolling, report them and DO NOT POST ON THE THREAD. Posting only perpetuates the trolling. Refrain from personal attacks and off-topic comments as well.

If you suspect someone is a banned person returned under a new username, report them and DO NOT REPLY TO THEIR POSTS. It is against the Terms of Service to call another user a troll in the open forum. Infractions will be given for such accusations, regardless of whether or not they are true.

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