The Melting Pot

Community Guidelines

3 July 2020
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Terms and Conditions Policy

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Privacy Policy

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Comments Policy

We follow the basic Rules for Disqus commenting

The following are not allowed anywhere on Disqus:

  • Targeted harassment or encouraging others to do so
    Hate speech and other forms of targeted and systematic harassment of people have no place on Disqus, nor do we tolerate communities dedicated to fostering harassing behavior.
  • Spam
    Examples include 1) comments posted in large quantities to promote a product or service, 2) the exact same comment posted repeatedly to disrupt a thread. 3) following users multiple times
  • Impersonation
    You may not impersonate others in a manner that does or is intended to mislead, confuse, or deceive others.
  • Direct threat of harm
    This covers active threats of harm directed towards a specific person or defined group of individuals. Contact local authorities if you feel a crime has been committed or is imminent.
  • Posting personally identifiable information
    Examples of protected information: credit card number, home/work address, phone number, email address, social security number. Real name isn’t currently covered.
  • Inappropriate profile content
    Graphic media containing violence and pornographic content are not allowed. Profile content allowed by Disqus may not be allowed on all communities, so report such profiles to the site moderator.

Comment policies specific to this site

  • Profanity IS allowed.
    • It is a common utilization of speech for many Veterans and Americans.  If this offends your sensibilities, we apologize, but we will not delete such commentary, as we are believers in Freedom of Expression.
  • Memes and Gifs ARE allowed
    • However, meme-bombing from a single poster on any one thread, with no commentary, MAY be considered spam, generating a cease & desist request from a moderator.
  • Attacking other posters or moderators, and direct insults to same, are NOT allowed.
    • You may argue a difference of opinion as vociferously as you like, but you MAY NOT attack those who believe differently.  Keep it relevant to the argument, and not about each other.  I.e calling another poster “stupid”, or a “traitor”, for having a different point of view will NOT be tolerated
    • We will not censor your opinions, even if we do not agree with them, but we WILL censor your behavior within the community. (exceptions to this are those comments that violate the basic Disqus rules, as noted above)
    • Act like an adult, and you will be treated as an adult.
    • Violators of this particular policy will be warned, but if the behavior does not stop, a time out or ban may be instituted at the discretion of the moderators