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Forum Rules

The following are basic rules of conduct that users of this forum are required to adhere to. Failure to comply with these rules of conduct may result in the termination (“banning”) of your forum access and academic consequences (fail an assignment). All moderation of the Class Forums is at the discretion of Mr. Arnold. These rules are subject to change.


1. While participating in The Literati Forums, you must respect the rights of others to participate in the community. To this end, you may not harass, defraud, threaten or cause distress and/or unwanted attention to other members. This includes, but is not limited to:

-Use of profanity in Name-calling or other insults.
-Flaming another user.
-Bringing disagreements with someone into unrelated threads.
-Creating a thread or post that attacks another person for their actions or opinions in the forums.

2. You may not use sexually explicit, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive language. You may not deliberately misspell, or substitute punctuation or other special characters in filtered words to circumvent the filter.

3. You may not distribute or spotlight sexually explicit, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racially, nationally, or ethnically offensive content. This includes posting links to sites which contain any of the above.

4. You may not impersonate any teacher, past or present. This includes the use or modification of Mr. Arnold's avatar or any picture of any staff member in the district.

5. You may not violate any local, state, national, or international laws or regulations.

6. You may not upload or transmit copyrighted material, without the express consent of the copyright holder.

7. You may not post the personally identifiable information of another user, including but not limited to their address, phone number, email address, or links to personal websites without the express consent of that user.

8. You may not re-post Private Messages or email on the forums without the express consent of the sender or original poster.

9. Discussion of religious or political topics not related to a narrative discussion or class assignment is prohibited.

10. Do not re-post or quote any materials from a thread or post that was locked/deleted.

11. Please do not respond to posts made by trolls . Report them to Mr. Arnold.