All new members and applicants - Read this first <<< Updated 06July2010

[Libertarian]

This forum welcomes everyone who is willing to discuss issues rationally and not insult others. Some members may not like a person's point of view, but unless it is abusive, it is tolerated.

Due to a bug in the system, when you first sign-up, it shows that you are banned. This is not true. You are in a queue waiting to be approved. As soon as I get a chance, I will login and approve you. If you are being referred here by a member, please add that to your sign-in. It helps me when I weed out the dozens of spammers, pornographers and other idiots who try to join so they can peddle their filth. They get deleted post haste.

HOWEVER, we do not allow spammers, people who come here to deliberately disrupt the board or folks who post porn. Anyone who falls into those categories will be deleted immediately. In the last week alone, I have deleted - without any warning or notice - at least ten members who signed up and posted commercial advertising and porn spam. WE WILL NOT ALLOW THAT CRAP HERE!

I am politically a Libertarian but do not think that that means I allow people to come into my home and poop on the floor or insult my family. This board is our home online and its members are our family online. I, and our staff, will protect our family here as we would in our real life homes.

[Libertarian]

Posting of PM conversations is prohibited without the consent of all parties involved.

Censorship - We hate doing it. But if anyone posts anything illegal, the private info of another member - without their permission or really bad swearing, It will happen. Please don't force us to censor anyone.

No multiple accounts! Anyone found to have more than one account will be banned.

[Libertarian]

One more thing that I failed to mention before: throw-away e-mail addresses (AOL, Yahoo, gmail, etc...) are no longer allowed. We got way too many spammers signing up using them. All new members must have real e-mail addresses linked to real ISPs (comcast, road runner, etc...) to sign-up here.

Old members who have such addresses can keep them. However, if you change your address, to another non-ISP linked address, you MUST let me know ahead of time so I can fix it for you.

Anyone signing up who does not have a real, permanent ISP e-mail address must have a current member to vouch for them before they will be approved. This must be brought to my attention prior to your signing up or your account will be bulk deleted. Sorry, but that is how it works.

[Libertarian]

Due to a bug in the system, when you first sign-up, it shows that you are banned. This is not true. You are in a queue waiting to be approved. As soon as I get a chance, I will login and approve you. If you are being referred here by a member, please add that to your sign-in. It helps me when I weed out the dozens of spammers, pornographers and other idiots who try to join so they can peddle their filth. They get deleted post haste.