Perhaps a refresher is in order.
This subforum has been created to encourage a higher level of conversation and debate. This subforum inherits all site wide rules, and has some additional caveats:
1. No racism, sexism, homophobia, general bigotry
2. No insults directed at specific individuals
3. No trolling
4. No flaming
5. No "Message Board Wars," please check personal vendettas at the door
6. No thread de-railment. Please stay on topic.
You should aim to be courteous, kind, patient, intelligent and receptive to one another.
Please report violations of the above, preferably with what rule you believe was violated. It makes everything easier.
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Other Stuff:
1. You should assume that breaking any of the rules will lead to your access of APP being revoked. Minor slip-ups may be given a pass, but that is not a guarantee. Everyone knows what they are signing up for when posting here, this forum is stricter. Post with that knowledge in mind. If you show blatant disregard for the criteria or are particularly nasty you'll be removed on first offense with zero warning.
2. As a reminder, Thread Derailment is a rule too! (Rule 6). APP is about a higher level of debate, and while being off topic and derailing threads may not come off as mean, it is still distracting and not in line with the spirit of the forum. Thread derailing will lead to being removed from APP just like the other rules. STAY ON TOPIC.
3. If you can help it, try avoiding thread banning people. This forum already has a higher standard, and if someone breaks that standard in your thread they will be gone anyway. Give people a chance to prove themselves in a more mature context. If you absolutely know the person is hopeless, by all means, continue to threadban them, but if you think there is a chance that they can behave, give them the opportunity.
4. DO NOT QUOTE POSTS THAT BREAK THE RULES. In the course of modding this subforum you'll get someone throwing a personal insult and then 2 responses to the personal insult. Which doesn't add to the conversation. APP is above petty fighting, and even if you don't start it, responding/paying attention to the stuff still defeats the purpose of this subforum. Look at the rules listed, if you see a rule being broken, report the post and we will get to it ASAP. Posts that respond to the insults will also be deleted because there is no point to them; if a problem post is deleted then your post would be responding to thin air. Report, don't Respond.
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?20045-APP-Rules-for-this-Forum-(Read-before-Posting)