A Review of Posting Guidelines

Posting Guidelines for JohnstonCounty.Today Forums

You can voice just about any opinion you want
here, as long as you can do it without using all those
well known "cuss words" or making vulgar statements
you wouldn't make in front of your mother or kids.
If that's too vague, here's some guidelines:

1. Posts made here that contain "swearing" will be
deleted. (We used to edit them but that is too
time consuming. They will simply be removed.)
That *includes* posts that contain such words
spelled out with "@" or "$", etc in strategic
positions. They will be deleted.

Offenders may also have their accounts removed
without any additional warning.

Update - there are no longer any "second chances" with this. Ignore this posting guideline and your account will be removed. This includes using abbreviations, slang, memes or any other method you think you can use to circumvent this guideline.

2. Express your opinion on any topic you would like
to - politics, abortion, homosexuality, war, peace,
the economy...you name it! But do so with some
sense of civility...any topic can be discussed without
dipping into the sleaze bucket.

Update - there are no longer any "second chances" with this. Ignore this posting guideline and your account will be removed. This includes making ANY personal derogatory statements to or about any other poster on the forums.

3. Messages posted here in the JCT Discussion Group that
are "borderline" with our guidelines are much more likely to be
left on the board when they are posted with a valid
e-mail address. In fact, if you feel the need to
REALLY exercise your 1st Amendment Rights and post
a message here which contains swearing and vulgar,
outrageous language, please sign it with a real e-mail
address, your REAL name and phone number. After all,
anyone feeling the need to do that should have
no problem identifying themselves to the
community, right? (If not, then such postings
will be considered as "graffiti" and will be removed promptly.)

Update - there are no longer any "second chances" with this. Ignore this posting guideline and your account will be removed.


4. Those that are obviously "flamers"
who never add anything of particular value here,
and are just name callers will probably be removed
depending on how annoyed the Webmaster happens to be at the
time.

Update - there are no longer any "second chances" with this. Ignore this posting guideline and your account will be removed. This includes the originator of the post AND anyone who responds. This INCLUDES hijacking original threads and posting off topic as well as posts that are obviously trying to bait others into flaming.


5. To those who ANSWER flamers and perpetuate the
inane posts...JUST SAY NO!! Don't respond to
those types of messages. When you do, THEY WIN!
Annoying, name calling posts of no discussion
value will be removed....we have other uses for
the disk space.

REPEATING - there are no longer any "second chances" with this. Ignore this posting guideline and your account will be removed. This includes the originator of the post AND anyone who responds.


6. Postings concerning business "opportunities", advertisements
for products or services, multi-level marketing, etc. should be
posted in the JCT FREE Classifieds - not in the Discussion
Group.

TO BE CLEAR - Post in the forums using the stated guidelines, stop the petty name calling and provide something of value to the discussion or your account will be removed.