Ohio Freedom Alliance

USER AGREEMENT

Registration is free! You will not be subscribed to any mailing list automatically and may be removed from the member list at any time. All user data is confidential unless you specify in your user profile. This system works very similar to the privacy of an online forum or social network like Facebook, etc.

We do insist that you abide by the rules and policies detailed below. If you agree to the terms, please check the 'I agree' checkbox and press the 'Register' button below. If you would like to cancel the registration, click here to return to the forums index.

Although the administrators and moderators of Ohio Freedom Alliance will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this forum, it is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages express the views of the author, and neither the owners of Ohio Freedom Alliance, nor Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. (developers of vBulletin) will be held responsible for the content of any message.

By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws.You may not post text or media that critiques the constitution of the United States as invalid on any grounds.The owners of Ohio Freedom Alliance reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.

The forum guidelines have a sliding scale of tolerance based on the long established credibility of the user. Repeated offenses of guidelines can lead to further moderation actions including banning.

SPECIFICS

• Posting of direct or inferred threats of violence against other people or property that is not your own is completely unacceptable by any user and subject to immediate banning.
• No promotion of illegal activities.
• Insulting or personally attacking other users is not allowed by any member. There is very little tolerance for violations, particular for new members. Reason: Insults lead to relational which often result in disruption, which dilute the resources of members and the intent of the forum.
• Off-topic posts - Posts that do not relate to the threads intent are subject to being deleted.
• Topics posted in the wrong sub-forum are subject to being moved or deleted. Please understand the sub-forum division before starting a new topic. Suggestions for new sub-forums are always welcome. Reason: Leads to most effective use of users resources.
• Any form of antagonizing other members is not allowed by non-established members.
• If you are to be critical of another users ideas or message please do so in a respectful manner. It is possible to discuss your points as to why you feel the way you do, ideally you should include alternate suggestions or acknowledge you have none.
• No posting of graphically offensive material. If there is a valid reason that relates to the campaign as to why something graphic is of value then post a link to the content and provide a clear warning adjacent to the link explaining the issue.
• Floods of low-value material may be subject to being moved into an alternate sub-forum or deleted. More tolerance will be allowed for established members. Reason: Excessive low value posts dilute users time spent on the forum just reading topic threads.
• No posting of others' personal contact information.
• No posting of any proclaimed campaign announcement that is not supported with a link to the campaigns homepage or other directly verifiable source.
• Promoting agendas alternate to the platform of Dr. Paul will have allowances for established members. Controversial topics should focus on facts whenever possible.
• Use relevant and descriptive topic titles. Poorly titled messages may be renamed. Reason: Respect time of other users.
• No promoting of campaign tactics or other activity that grossly counter the morals or ethics of Dr. Paul.
• No excessive / pointless negativity on the campaign, its future or elements of it. All messages with a negative tone about the campaign from new users must provide supportive facts as to why there is a perceived negative and provide some suggested solutions to the issue.
• Ad hominem attacks on other candidates and their support groups are discouraged. This is not a moderatable offense for established users but will have low tolerances for non-established users. All are encouraged to address other candidates with their proper name. Reason: This activity is discouraged as it can be used to generate a negative image for our support community.
• Care should be used when soliciting money for some effort to support the campaign as it is totally possible that a scam artist will be looking to take advantage of the good nature of Ron Paul supporters. If you're going to do anything that will solicit taking money you'd be wise to make sure you have some established credibility within the community that matches what you expect. If you don't have that, try to set up some arrangements with a third party that does that so people send money to the trusted third party who make sure it goes where intended.
• Read the welcoming message for each sub-forum to understand specific guidelines needed to achieve the objective of that sub-forum.

Users are welcome to report activity destructive to the community. Topics starters are welcome to report violations or hijackings of their threads. As there is no grand consensus on what is offensive and what isn't, if you take exception to a personal remark someone has made towards you please use the Private Message facility of this forum to work out a resolution and understanding. It is understandable to publicly post a stated objection to the statement and indicate that the issue will be taken up in private.