| | | Rules and guidelines for The Word Nerds Discussion Forums |  Sun May 18, 2008 5:09 pm by Abe | The following usage rules for The Word Nerds Discussion apply to everyone posting to this forum:
General appropriateness. The Word Nerds' podcast audience is made up of listeners of all ages, from older elementary school through adult. Except for posts in the Rude Words forum, please keep your language and images appropriate for a PG to PG-13 audience. (If you are not from the USA, send me a PM or an email and I'll explain these ratings.) Don't walk on eggshells worrying about saying "damn," but don't drop the F-bomb throughout the forum either (except for the Rude Words forum).
Respect. Please treat your interlocutors with respect. The forum will be meaningless if we all agree on everything. On the other hand, it will become corrosive if our disagreements descend to the level of personal attack. No flaming, please. Moderators will generally use a light touch, but will be more likely to interfere in flame wars and ad hominem attacks than in any other problem with the forum.
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Normal "speech," please. Please post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". That is, you should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or colored text, etc. Likewise, you should try not to SHOUT (by using all capital letters) or use excessive punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts.
Compartmentalize rude words. We do not plan to set up a word list to censor offensive language. We will rely on you, the members of this discussion community, to police yourselves. We have started a separate forum for the discussion of rude words. It is called "Rude Words" (duh!), and has a prominent warning in its description. Please keep all discussions of potentially offensive language in that forum. (And feel free to cut loose in that forum, while observing the separately published Rude Words Forum guidelines. WARNING! The Rude Words rules contain several rude words!)
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Our discretion. Since we cannot anticipate all situations that might arise, please be aware that we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure that this discussion place is not disrupted or abused in any way.
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