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For your own protection, please be careful what you say about people on this board. Free speech allows you to say what you want, but when you try to "hurt someone's good name", it can be considered libel or defamation and they can sue you.

Please read our Policy statement at http://www.cedartownchat.com/forum/policy.asp for more information.

 We are opposed to ALL forms of spamming. Do not send out PM's, emails, or make posts advertising or selling junk on here. We already get enough of that. The only advertisements on here are official ones.

If you are going to post information from another website, book, magazine, or other material, please only post a paragraph or two and note where it is from to credit the author. If it is from a website, please put a link to the website below the quote. Do not post entire articles. Violations are subject to bans.

Why? Copyright laws forbid copying the creative works of authors. News postings are a grey area of copyright laws. Copying and/or paraphrasing some of the article is safe under Fair Use since it is based on facts. You cannot copyright facts. Just to be sure, we are only going to borrow the facts not the entire article. PM with any questions.

 What's Bashing and Flaming? In it's simplest terms, don't publicly instigate trouble with another member by calling them names. If you feel the need to voice your opinion about that member, use the private messages.

Also on that note, if you see a member who is attacking directly attacking another member, please use the alert moderator button in the offending post and we'll take care of it. Please refrain from posting comments back to the person. It only feeds fuel to the fire.

 Do no post links to pornography website. Also, please refrain from vulgar comments in the public forum, intant messenger, and live chat. You may however post those comments and pictures in private forums and private messages.

Be respectful of others by not cursing in the public forums, instant messanger, or live chat. You may do so via private message.