Community rules
How this place is run
Townsquare does not decide which opinions are correct. It decides how people are expected to argue. Stewards enforce process — accuracy of quotes, civility, volume — and nothing else.
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No impersonation, threats, or illegal content
Use a handle that is yours. Do not claim to be someone else, do not threaten anyone, and do not post material that is illegal where it is read.
- 2
Attack claims, not people
Argue with what was said. Contempt for a person is not an argument, and it ends threads that were going somewhere.
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Quote accurately
If you quote someone, quote them as written. Paraphrase is fine when you mark it as paraphrase.
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Don't brigade
Do not organise groups to swarm a thread, a room, or a person. Rooms here are meant to be readable a year from now.
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Don't flood
Repeating the same point in volume is not persuasion. Post once, well.
What stewards can and cannot do
A steward can pin briefing items, edit an issue briefing, and mute a chat message that breaks a rule above. A steward cannot remove a position you hold, rank the room by popularity, or delete a thread for being inconvenient. The platform does not police wrong opinions. It polices process.