Ruleset For The HOLYSMOKE Echo    
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   Last Modified: 05/08/2009   
      
   Moderator: Ross Cassell @ 1:123/500    
      
   --Purpose Of Echo   
      
   For the free discussion both for and against the validity of any    
   religious belief.   
      
   --Swear Words   
      
   The usage of swear words are not prohibited for purposes of exclaimation,    
   however the usage of swear words:   
      
   * To insult, flame or inflame if directed towards a member of this echo   
      
   * As the sole or only content of your message or reply.   
      
   * For only the sake of using them.   
      
   Are prohibited, if in doubt dont do it, else when you cross this line, you   
   will be cautioned.   
      
   --Name Calling/Personal Attacks   
      
   Messages that are designed to deliberately insult without conveying    
   any relevant information are included as forbidden.   
      
   Additionally echo participants are not to be made the subject matter of    
   any message:   
      
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   --The "I Hate You" Rule   
      
   Disputes and personality conflicts that originated in other echoes or    
   which have been long standing, regardless of origination point, are not    
   welcome here. Do not use or enter this echo for the sole purpose of    
   carrying out existing grudges.    
      
   --The "Persona Non Grata" Rule   
      
   Individuals banned or suspended from this echo are not to be included in debate   
   within this echo, for purposes of this echo, if a person does get banned or    
   suspended, they do not exist for as long as any ban or suspension is in force.   
   If a banned or suspended person comes into the echo, do not respond to that    
   person if their ban or suspension is still in effect. Violation of this rule   
   can result in being sustended or banned.    
      
   Explaination:   
      
   If a person is prohibited from posting in the echo, be that prohibition short   
   term, long term or permanent, then there should be nothing coming from this   
   echo to compel that person to want to or have to defend themselves.   
      
   --The "Non Echo Member" Rule   
      
   Do not use this echo to convey information about a person whom   
   is not actively using the echo, if such information is less than   
   factual or is inflammatory.   
      
   --The "I Twit Thee" Rule   
      
   The usage of twit filters, assuming your message reader supports it, is    
   encouraged in the event you encounter a individual whom otherwise causes you   
   great irritation.    
      
   However if you do decide on this course of action and you publically announce   
   that you are twitting someone, you better be sure you live by that    
   proclaimation, which includes up to you treating the irritant as if s/he doesnt   
   exist.   
      
   If you announce that you have twit filtered someone and in turn take pot shots   
   at them in messages to others, either out of the blue or by seeing that persons   
   messages quoted by others, you are as guilty of being annoying as the person    
   you twitted, and may face risk of being suspended from the echo if not worse.   
      
   --The "Liar" Rule   
      
   If you are asking for someones opinion on something and they give it, do not    
   proclaim it to be a lie, an opinion is what it is. If you can have an opinion   
   on something, so can others, see how that works?   
      
   Someone disagreeing with your viewpoint does not a liar make, if you proclaim   
   someone to be a liar, be prepared to prove it as such or hold thy tongue by    
   not proclaiming someone to be a liar.   
      
   --The Posting A Lie Rule   
      
   Do not post anything about another participant which is a deliberate    
   misrepresentation of what they said or whom they are. If you post    
   anything of this nature, it best be worded as an opinion unless proven    
   or admitted to, if it cannot pass the test of proof, then do not    
   present these things as factual.   
      
   DO NOT POST LIES ABOUT ANYONE!   
      
   Having said the above, the moderator is not your holy protector and is    
   not responsible for for deciding what was a lie and what is the truth,    
   do not expect arbitration on anything you feel said about you which    
   might have been a lie.   
      
   --Real Names   
      
   This is a real names only echo, no handles, aliases without moderator    
   approval.   
      
   --The To All Rule   
      
   Do not post messages addressed to all, unless it is to introduce    
   subject matter you wish to have debated.    
      
   Do not post any message to All, which is in fact a reply to a message    
   written in the echo by another participant. Doing so by inference makes    
   the person whom wrote the message as topic for debate, echo    
   participants are not topics for debate.   
      
   --Quoting and Quotations   
      
   Do not over-quote your message replies, quote back that which is needed    
   to specify those points in which your reply is addressing.   
      
   Do not alter message quotes to change the meaning of the original    
   posters points, this is not to say you are required to quote back every    
   single thing the person said if you are not addressing every single    
   thing they said, just dont make your quote back look as if the person    
   said something they did not.   
      
   No one is required to address every single point you made in any    
   message.   
      
   Continually harassing a echo participant with a message quote of what    
   they may have said in a earlier point in time regardless of context, will    
   be regarded as harassing a participant if done to excess. If the person    
   refuses to acknowledge, concede or retract, dont think baraging them    
   with said quote multiple times is going to change the status quo.   
      
   --Moderation.   
      
   Leave the moderating to the moderator.   
      
   The moderator of this echo reserves the right to add, subtract or otherwise   
   amend these rules as necessary up to and including taking action against an   
   individual for something not currently spelled out within the current rule set.   
      
   -The Moderator-   
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    * Origin: The Moderator (1:123/500)