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General Comments

The primary purpose of this Forum is to act as an informational and educational forum for the exchange of information for all things related to Greenwater and the surrounding areas. All are encouraged to participate in this information exchange in the spirit of openness and fun. Keeping this place a comfortable and enjoyable place on the Internet to spend your time is strongly encouraged. Emotional outbursts and personal attacks are not..

Cardinal Rules

Screw-up here and you COULD be banned.

1. The Registration Agreement Terms must be respected in full.

2. No trolling. Don't make posts that are inflammatory just to get people riled up. Substance is a key to not being labeled a troll, but substance alone cannot prevent you from being considered a troll. Substance with a dash of personal attacks will get you labeled as a troll.

3. Ad hominem and personal attacks are not permitted. Criticize the ideas, not the people. An ad hominem attack is a logical fallacy describing the attempt to discredit an argument by merely attacking the credibility of the arguer. Excessive flaming will not be tolerated. Users who verbally assault the character or person of other posters on a regular basis will be banned. Moderator's judgment applies here. "You are wrong" is not a personal attack; "Your wrong because you are an idiot" is.

4. No pornographic, sexually offensive, sexually explicit, or objectifying material. Moderator's judgment applies here. We'd like for our readers to be able to read the forum at work and share with friends without fear of retribution.

5. Do not post links or requests for stolen or illegal items.

6. Respect the privacy of others. Do not post other's phone numbers, addresses, pictures, etc., without their express permission.

7. Each forum member may maintain only one account.

8. Each forum member must maintain e-mail. All users must provide a current, frequently read e-mail address in his/her internal profile. Note that non-moderators do not have access to your internal e-mail address (which is separate from "Display e-mail"). Accounts having invalid email addresses are subject to deletion.

9. Do not place foul language in thread subjects.

10. No spamming. No commercial-oriented posts. The Commerce forums are for NON COMMERCIAL use of personal items. Do not flood the forums with useless content or content designed to engage readers into forum wars or trolling.

11. DO NOT attempt to subvert, modify, or disrupt the normal flow or display of the Open Forum or its content.

Compulsory Rules

screw-up here and we might cut you some slack.

1. Use descriptive subject lines and research your post. This reduces the chances of double-posting, and it also makes it easier for people to see what they do/don't want to read. Also, scan the subjects of the last several days' posts to make sure you aren't duplicating posts.

2. Post in the right forum! Post in the right forum! As example if the topic is about Mt Rainier, post it in the Mt. Rainier forum. .

3. Restrict the use of excessive foul language.

4. No blatantly juvenile toilet humor. Moderator's judgment applies here.