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[bacon]

Well, I suppose I should say hello, and welcome. This is the Council of Elrond, a forum to express and debate your beliefs in topics such as war, homosexuality, history, abortion, religion, and so on and so forth. This is a place to debate and be political. As such, there are many risks involved, and so some rules must be enforced here more than others.

Specific Council Rules

• Please try and be considerate of others when posting, and respect their beliefs as well. Do not come close to flaming or baiting anyone here. Keep all of your posts directed towards the issue, not the people here.
  
  
• This is a serious forum with a serious attitude. Spam is obviously not allowed, which includes posts having nothing to do with the subject at hand.
  
  
• Do not start a topic and simply link to a news story without any of your thoughts. Get a topic organized and posted. Get your thoughts into the topic, not just the link.
  
  
• If you are provoked or flamed towards, do not do the same towards the other, or you will be punished just as they will be. If there are no moderators online, ignore them or leave for the evening.

Enjoy the Council of Elrond, GDF Members.

[DDL]

I am DDL, your Council of Elrond moderator. I am in charge of creating new discussions of interest, but feel free to create your own, as long as it abides the above rules. I emphasize the rule about no flaming..on another forum I am a part of, there was a huge argument about a homosexuality topic, when they were simply stating their views. Please keep from purposely saying something that could upset someone else, for you would not like to be upset yourself would you? If you follow these rules, we will get along great.