1. Trolling and Flaming. Trolling is defined as posting to deliberately provoke arguments, with no other intent than to gain attention, generally negative, for the sake of attention. Flaming is posting deliberately hostile and insulting messages. Trolling and Flaming is not acceptable.

2. Flaming, abuse, spamming, and excessive off topic chatter are not permitted.
Do not post in obviously low-content or misplaced threads with the intent of spamming, flaming, trolling, hijacking the thread, or otherwise cluttering up the forum.

3. When discussing and referencing articles discussing current events/debates:
.When quoting a current news story, do not simply quote or link to the news article and then ask for a response. Instead, include some of your own commentary and thoughts to help spark a discussion.
.Please do not make threads that are only copy and pastes of articles, dictionary/encyclopedia articles, forum posts from other sites, or anything else where the basis of the thread is a large piece of text that is not a current news article and is not something that you wrote.
. Surveys don't belong here.

4. Morality and Religion - Please note there are many views when it comes to morality and religion, you are open to debate ,post your thought on the subject but please do it respectful . This is a forum for discussing and debating with others, not preaching at them.

5. Politics Discussion of everything political from your local to international government.
.Threads based on an article, provided the entire thread does not consist of a link or a massive quote and a sentence or two about the article. You should include your thoughts on the article (why you think it is important or worth discussing, how it fits into your debate, specific parts you agree or disagree with, etc) and provide enough content for other users to make worthwhile contributions to the thread.

.Do not copy directly from sources and claim them as your own. You are strongly encouraged to use sources to back up your claims, but please make sure you clearly cite them within your post.
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6. Sociology and Psychology-
.Discussion on sexual matters is allowed within the forum, provided that it abides by the Gaia TOS and is not overly explicit.
. A short post simply asking "what do you think of gay people?" does not really provoke the in-depth discussion required for this forum. Depending on the content,it may be moved.

7. Spelling and grammar -Please try to use proper spelling and grammar. Though misspell and mistakes are allow please proof-read or proofread before creating a topic.
. Grammar Nazis are not allow. DO NOT correct members spelling or Grammar. If a subject is unclear only the crew members can correct. DO NOT create arguments and/or belittle anyone . DO NOT criticizes someone grammar or spelling. If warn too many times about this, it may lead to a ban.