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Forum Posting Guidelines

Forum Posting Guidelines
Posted June 4th, 2007 by manystrom

Hello Friends,

I set this board up as a place for Ron Paul supporters to communicate with each other. Anyone can read and post to the board. To post, you must first register.

Feel free to post your comments, links and anything else you'd like the world to know about here. I ask that you follow these loose guidelines:

1) Even though this is an unofficial site, you are still representing Dr. Paul in the eyes of the public. Please don't write anything that Dr. Paul himself wouldn't say or wouldn't approve of, or that would reflect badly on Dr. Paul or the campaign. Therefore, don't trash other candidates, don't use bad words, etc. Keep your focus on the good and the positive and on hope.

2) ALWAYS spell check and grammar check your work before posting. The new Firefox has a built in spell checker. Misspelled words get a red underline, and if you right click on them, you get some options from a built-in dictionary.

3) Please do not post the text of entire articles on other sites. Feel free to post a short intro, and then a link to the original article. Unfortunately, YouTube videos cannot be embedded in the forum, but feel free to link to them. Just copy and paste the address, and it will turn into a link automatically.

4) I can and will delete inappropriate comments and ban disruptive users. This includes blatant commercials, excessive profanity, personal attacks on other users, multiple identical postings on different threads, and EXCESSIVE USE OF CAPITAL LETTERS.

Please be nice and follow Dr. Paul's living example of kindness, respect and humility. Let me know if you have any questions.

I set this up to be an open forum for the honest discussion of ideas and the search for truth. In order for this to work, everyone must play by the rules and respect the community. While I don't want to get into the habit of banning people or deleting posts and / or comments, if you don't respect the community, then you are not welcome here. There is also a link at the end of each post titled "flag as offensive." If a threshold number of users click this link, a post / comment will be automatically unpublished. I encourage community members to use wisdom and discretion in using this feature.

Any of the following will be sure to get you banned without warning:

Engaging in flame wars or personal attacks on other members, racist remarks, posting material completely unrelated to the campaign or the presidential race, bumping your own thread to keep it on the front page, posting the same non-related comment on multiple threads to promote your website or event, blatant advertising and EXCESSIVE USE OF CAPITALS. If you cannot consistently spell or check your grammar, you may also be banned. Sorry. Posting here is a privilege, not a right.

In the end, this is a private site, not a public forum. Anything I decide that reflects poorly on Dr. Paul and/or sullies the good and peaceful name of Ron Paul supporters is not welcome here. At the end of the day, this is my house. I set it up to honor, respect and promote Ron Paul's bid for the Presidency. Play fair and you're welcome to stay. Do not abuse what is offered.

Welcome aboard a magical journey!

Best regards,
Michael Nystrom
Editor
www.dailypaul.com

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Appropriate Subject line

I think there the guidelines should include appropriate Subject lines for posts.

For example, ***No Using Asterisks*** for titles.

Also, the subject should have relevancy to the post, rather than something ambiguous like "You've got to read this!" or "I Don't Like Sharing This But Here It Is".

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"Talk all you can about all you know all of the time."

Maybe you should get your own website...

...and then you can have it just the way you want it.

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"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained." -Mahatma Gandhi

Awe

"Dr. Paul Being Bashed"?

Sorry, nothing personal

Sorry, nothing personal :-)

I've seen many subject lines that didn't actually refer to the Subject at all. I was looking for a recent example and there happened to be one.

...

"Talk all you can about all you know all of the time."

I Understand

I didn't want to share it but thought it ought to be.

Just a reminder !

Dr. Paul cured my apathy

Time for a new reminder Cologne!

Help Ron Paul's delegates get to St. Paul!
https://www.coasttocoastm...
Historic moment at WA State Convention at minute 4 here!!
http://www.youtube.com/wa...

I will try and better myself...

I will.. try....

m72mc,

it was definetly not you I had on my mind when I posted this comment.

Dr. Paul cured my apathy

yeah but I guess it do´t hurt If I try to

as everyone else..

to better yourself is a good thing...

Thanks for the reminder Cologne!

You're still up over there??

Help Ron Paul's delegates get to St. Paul!
https://www.coasttocoastm...
Historic moment at WA State Convention at minute 4 here!!
http://www.youtube.com/wa...

I am bumping this

Posting Guidelines

Any way I can embed a video?

Sounds like a message from

Sounds like a message from Manystrom to me.

OK, let's go to other forums to discuss things that aren't directly related to the campaign.

Nite-nite. I'm off to another Forum.

SUPPORT OUR FOUNDERS' AMERICA
Support the Constitution of the United States

Ditto....Bingo...Must be

Ditto....Bingo...Must be aware of the politcal 'police' want us to say....

Manny, please END the Flag Feature.

Its too powerful a weapon for those who can't handle rational arguement. When they loose the argument or CAN NOT MAKE ONE, they flag.

Please end this feature. For a movement to be about Freedom & Liberty, that FLAGS all decenting voices, it makes for a paronoid movement.

You say, behave like Ron Paul, well, Ron Paul beleives in Freedom of Speech.
If you don't like whats on TV, change the Chanel. If you don't like whats on, produce your own shows. But Ron Paul Would NEVER Flag someone as offensive because of ones arguement or opinions or point of view.

Please END the FLAG feature.

Long live the RP R3VOLUTION,

Treg

I don't care for a flag

I don't care for a flag feature either, it is definitely subject to abuse. Guidelines should be sufficient and if not then the moderators should use their best judgment on any given comment or thread based on the guidelines as they are set forth.

http://www.1776solution.b...

"If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control." ~William G. Sumner

The biggest problem with the

The biggest problem with the flag feature is it invites abuse from the clueless. I've decided not to flag again.

SUPPORT OUR FOUNDERS' AMERICA
Support the Constitution of the United States

Not to be a wet blanket,but...

You Wrote,

"I set this up to be an open forum for the honest discussion of ideas and the search for truth."

If the campaign has come to a close in the "conventional sense",there is not much else to discuss other than supporting other like minded candidates,and searching for the truth.

My question is. What truth is allowed to be searched for?

Many other things are related in one way or the other to protecting our health and freedom,so what do you suggest?

Are you saying don't question 9/11?
Are you saying don't question the lingering trails left in the sky by unmarked planes?
Are you saying we shouldn't talk about food shortages and preparing for disaster?
Just curious....

"Even though this is an unofficial site,

you are still representing Dr. Paul in the eyes of the public. Please don't write anything that Dr. Paul himself wouldn't say or wouldn't approve of, or that would reflect badly on Dr. Paul or the campaign. Therefore, don't trash other candidates, don't use bad words, etc. Keep your focus on the good and the positive and on hope."

The Senate resolution 511 is illegal "Natural Born issue".

The Senate voted to break the law of the land on Resolution 511 this week. The Senate declared that McCain is a natural born citizen. Now with the help of Muddy Thoughts (google “Panmanchurian Candidate: McCain INELIGIBLE”)

“McCain has claimed that the Naturalization Act of 1790 (26 March 1790) covers his status as a “natural born” citizen. That is entirely not true. A close look at that Act indicates that it only covered “admission as a citizen”—meaning naturalization—and in any case, that Act was repealed in part on 29 January 1795, and the rest was repealed on 14 April 1802. So that argument does not work, because it was repealed long before McCain was born, and because it created naturalization instead of natural born citizenship were it still in effect.”

Now we know Ted Olsen’s skills as a Lawyer showed in the hanging chad election in Florida. I do not understand why the Democrats voted for this resolution. To me it says that we don’t have a choice, THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS IS STILL EVIL. Judge Andrew P. Napolitano frankly discusses how the federal government has circumvented the Constitution and is systematically dismantling the rights and freedoms that are the foundation of American democracy in his book In A Nation Of Sheep. THIS SENATE RESOLUTION IS CLEARLY ONE OF THOSE EVENTS. If the Senate wants to change the Constitution there is a tool for this…. It is called Article V.

"The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate."

There are two lawsuits in the country pressing this issue. I urge that you pursue more of these lawsuits to nullify McCain’s delegates. I find it absolutely repugnant that the Senate takes an oath to the constitution and does not obey it. The politicians again circumvented the Law and this Sheep is at least making noise. My agenda is simple I have children approaching the age of responsibility and feel awful about leaving them the debt and moral corruptness of the political and economic system of today

Michael, The Site Is Almost Perfectly Tweaked........

still a tad slow (could be my ip I don't know) but now we can see our user id's and backtrack old post's for reference.Awesome, Your Rockin!!!!!!!!

Thomas Where Are You Dude???

Delegates Revolt For Freedom !!!

Thomas had a bad day.

This is our time.

~Clown Package~ lol

~Delegates~ Vote Ron Paul First Round or Sit Down...

I have attached a Golden Fema Ticket for those of you who vote for McCain in the first round.
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Bumpity, Bump

bump

My advise don't take any wooden nickels or paper dollars!

Don't participate in the biggest pyramid scheme of all time, the Federal Reserve Bank and their worthless money.
grant

Hi Everyone

Like I say this is always a good reminder. :)

One more bump from me for the day.

Bump

Bump

Bump

Manystrom

You rock man...and Ron Paul is my hero.

This is always a good reminder

bump

Bumparoney

Bump

Lets just keep this bumped today too

as a welcome, Plus the delegate info.

Amen

This is true - when people searching out Ron Paul come across this site they should feel welcomed and get educated about Dr. Paul, not some back biting or arguments. Plus, language plays an important roll in whether people stay on this site to be educated in Liberty and Freedom. Thanks for posting.

Nice

I enjoy hearing from other RP supporters / activist on this forum - my #1 choice -
SPH Org/ronpaul.meetup.com/926

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!

Well put! I love this site and hated seeing it degraded by intentional, antagonistic, and disruptive posts and comments. (Which I feel, in some cases, was intentional.)

Hopefully, this reminder will work and keep the real trolls away.

Go rEVOLution!

Good reminders for us all

Bump

Thanks, Michael

for the reminder. I love coming here it's like going to the circus, it's so exciting.

question

Fortune Favors the Bold

why is the "most important post" access denied?

I don't think the real nasty

I don't think the real nasty people are RP supporters.

In the last few days we put up two threads. One to generate ideas for a national ad campaign. And another to generate ideas for building the Ron Paul Constitution Education Center. We have the money already to do the programs. It wasn't a call for donations.

60% of the posters really did an awesome job of finding good ad copy in the massive You Tube inventory. In less than 48 hrs' we had a full ad list we can run.

But 40% - a lot - of people just came right in and flamed me like a feeding frenzie. I don't care personally - they can't stop me if they beat me with a club - but for others who are new it was just bad news.

Not a very good impression.

I don't know much about the technology so I don't know how you could sift them out.

You DO realize..

that a you tube video is NOT something that a television studio can even USE as a commercial, don't you?? It's not how it's done. EVER.

Everyone: call your local TV station and ask about getting your You Tube vid on the air...then you will see that this guy is yanking your chain.

Taking people's intellectual property can be called theft too, ya know. :|

"P" ...just to answer some of your concerns...

Many of the You Tube videos we've collected can in fact be used if they were produced in the right format.
In some cases we can't use the actual video but we've been able to use the script or concept to create a new piece.

In one case we have our New York Times person, working with a local Pennsylvania RP supporter ( a professional videographer) putting together clips of local Amish people and making a Ron Paul ad.

You probably know more about this technology than I do but rest assured, we have professionals ( 7 in all not including the team who produced the High Tide ad) working on these ads.

Hey check out something new http://www.freedom.tv/REA...

"PunJab! Bring me my checkbook!"

Not true...

It depends on what format is was shot on
and who shot it.

ORily?

Are you a media professional now?

the 3D add

Fortune Favors the Bold

was made specifically for the campaign

it is origional material. The production company would love to see it on tv. They are partially trying to promote their company, as well as supporting Paul's message.

Another important FACT

that should be known here is that 1 min. spots on TV cost three times as much as a 30 second spot. So, it's highly unlikely that anyone would be willing to pay for the whole minute.

You need to fill up your glass.

Seems it's half empty.

________________

Good luck to us all,

Lisa C.

www.women4ronpaul.com

How is this different than my post?

Seems like a *personal attack* to me :|

Ignore button please

I'm in favor of exchanging the Flag button to Ignore, so we don't have to see a person posts anymore. That would really help a lot, thank you.
Update - By Ignoring a persons posts, we would'nt have to see it anymore and we can continue working without getting bogged down with hateful, distracting, misleading posts.
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