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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 If a threshold number of users click this link, a post / comment will be automatically unpublished.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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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!!!!!!!!

Bumpity, Bump

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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

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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.

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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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Show your support on the Ron Paul Map !
People worldwide support Dr. Paul too :-)
http://www.pollingmatrix....

Thank You Michael

I was hoping for something like this. This is a SUPPORT site for Ron Paul. Negative posts, criticisms, etc. do not help the cause. We want to spead the positive message of Dr. Paul & the Revolution; not put it up for question. True supporters know the message, love it, & want to send it far & wide.

Thanks for the clarification. I will obey!

In the world's broad fields of battle. In the bivoac of life. Be not like dumb driven cattle...be a HERO in the strife.

The automatic feature should be done away with

There is just too many people who have such a low threshold for what to Flag and who to call a Troll.

This feature of Flaging is making your site into a virtual Personality Cult for Ron Paul.

Manny, I am 46, I have known Ron Paul through the eighties and nineties... but you must allow constructive criticism, complaining, and so forth... Its all HEALTHY.

Perhaps you can check into who is doing all the flagging and deleting of posts.

Its very annoying and pushing EVEN ME, away from this site.

Treg / Tempe AZ Tempe Meet Up Leader

appears several need to read

appears several need to read this

ditto

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Many Of Us Are Quick To Find Fault

Vote RON PAUL 2008
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HUCKABEE is not my choice for President. You might have gotten a clue of that from my little opening (above) but at the same time I find some of what he says not quite so far-fetched as MCCAIN and ROMNEY who to me are twins but don't seem to realize this fact.

HUCKABEE is a good talker, speech maker. He got a little taste of MSM treatment yesterday when MSM ignored him nearly as much as they do and continue to do our hero RON PAUL. I thought of that when he made mention of them saying they were going to shower him with questions later but he questioned this later saying they seem to have turned off the spicket. Funny but now he perhaps knows how RON PAUL has been feeling in this regard.

RON PAUL did a super job at the debate, as always his message has been simple and rings of truth. My choice for President remains RON PAUL.

-- I just realized I may have posted this comment in the wrong thread, but I've decided to leave it here because I feel we can't say enough praise for RON PAUL -- capital letters and all. Smile.

Thank you.

This should be dropped in every day!

Thank You!

Well said, Michael. I agree with you 100%.

time for review

think before you post people.

Rules

Some of you might want to freshen up on these conditions, maybe some have not seen them.

Excellent rules

Thanks for the reminder.

"Keep your focus on the good and the positive and on hope." -manystrom

Noted

Vote RON PAUL 2008

posting

maryj
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Links to articles

I know Manystrom mentioned this too, but it's really important. If you find articles from other websites to share with readers here, please link back to them so people don't have to go looking. It'll help speed up the response time to your posts too.
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Show your support on the Ron Paul Map !
Lot of action on the eastern half of the USA right now.
http://www.pollingmatrix.... Mapping Ron Paul Supporters

again

again

few more times around good

few more times around good

good to see this posted.

good to see this posted. Thank you!

with all the heated posts lately

I thought it would be a good time to ask people to review these guidelines!

Please take a minute to go through them!

Please report...

Please flag or report any posts that are calling for people to bombard the National HQ with phone calls demanding they fire the campaign staff. They do NOT need to deal with this kind of disruptive behavior in the middle of the most important primary voting cycle.

There have been at least 12 postings from one person, all similar, a very persistent new user, who has yet to be banned.

agreed

Fortune Favors the Bold

^^^^I very much agree with this^^^^

I always wince when I see those requests. People are on the phones at HQ trying to field positive phone calls without having to answer to a bunch of flaming questions that were instigated by some fool.

Good post.