don't be a jerk!

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in creating this community, we seek productive and stimulating conversations among members. of course, everyone will not agree on every topic; this is a good thing.

in order to ensure the community can discuss controversial issues politely and effectively, we take it upon ourselves to set rules and (if necessary) enforce them.

the system for tracking behavior is very simple. you get 3 chances to join the community productively—we call these strikes. you will never receive a strike for your opinion on an issue. instead, strikes are only given in the case when users stray from the issue at hand into other, unproductive zones.

you can check if you have any strikes on your profile at any time. if you hit 3, your account will be banned from the site.

as a heuristic set of rules, you may not:

• insult another member of the community
  • bad: "i can't believe you actually think that.. you must be some kind of idiot, where did you go to school? duke?"
  • good: "i must disagree. i think this because.."
    
    
• post personally-identifying details about yourself or anyone else in the community
  • bad: "i was born on october 17th, 1975 in san francisco general hospital (and my first pet was named rex), so i'm an expert on this topic."
  • good: "i'm a 70s kid. when i was growing up, all the kids in the neighborhood had part-time jobs."
    
    
• bring up an unrelated argument
  • bad: "you're wrong about this the same way you were when you said the earth was flat. no further comments."
  • good: "i disagree for several reasons related only to this topic!"
    
    
• promote any product or service
• probably more things we can't think of right now..

at the end of the day it will be up to our judgement to maintain the best community we can all create together. we think it’s pretty simple: just don’t be a jerk!

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