The Rules (UPDATED 9-30-10)

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The Rules (UPDATED 9-30-10)

Postby rucker on Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:50 pm

MN Gun Talk is a resource for all Minnesotans who are interested in firearm ownership and the related topics. Regardless of your views on the issues involved you are welcome to participate. All that is required to join the forum is a name and valid email address. Your information will not be sold or distributed to third parties.

To participate in the forum members must adhere to the following rules:

  1. Spamming, trolling, and personal attacks are prohibited. You can state your opinion and disagree with the opinions of others as long as it is done in a respectful manner. Attack the argument, not the person.
  2. No profanity or obscene pictures.
  3. Personal information about others must remain private. If the information about a member is not contained in their profile then it is considered private.
  4. Any posts that do not follow the letter or spirit of the above rules may be edited, locked, or deleted at the sole discretion of the moderators
  5. Multiple user registrations are not allowed. Duplicate accounts will be permanently disabled.

Added 9-30-10 (The PM regarding this was sent to every registered user of the site.)
When linking to articles or other copyrighted work on other websites do not post the full text of the article here. Only post a link and a description of what you would like to discuss. The following things have generally been seen as a "fair use" of copyrighted work:
quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author’s observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; reproduction by a library of a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson; reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported.


There is more information about this issue that can be found at http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

Thank you for reading the rules. We hope you will join us and participate in the forum.
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Enforcement of the rules

Postby rucker on Sun Jan 06, 2008 8:09 pm

In order to enforce the rules the following guidelines are currently used by the moderators.

Upon breaking a rule a member will receive a "warning" from a moderator. A warning is similar to a private message that contains the post in question and a description of which rule was broken. Warnings expire after 30 days.

The first warning is just that; a warning.

The second warning on record will result in a 1 day ban.

The third warning on record will result in a 1 week ban.

The fourth warning on record will result in a 1 month ban.
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