Thank you for the reply. You said there are no unwritten official rules. I can see that especially since when someone is engaged in hurtful behavior they seem to get a warning and if they control themselves, there will be no further mention of it.
Other than what is written on the Religion Moderator page, I know that there are some posting guidelines on the FR Home page, and I have also looked through Jim Robinson’s comment and post history and read what he has said. I would be happy to read anything else you recommend.
There are subjects of interest to me here, where opposing views squelch any useful discussion almost immediately. Would it be appropriate for me or anyone to attach a caucus label to my own posts? You are reluctant to seem to be making rules, which is understandable, but I would appreciate the benefit of anyone’s experience. I hate to learn things the hard way. It may be better to avoid the caucus designation and just let the chairs fly across the room. Fine with me, and whatever brings out the truth.
Certain there is one unofficial rule which people like Humblegunner have enforced passionately, the prohibition against posting anything associated with a blog. I do not recognize moderators enforcing this except that such posts are moved to bloggers and personal. I cannot say but I think that HG is somewhat begrudgingly appeased by this.
Thank you for your kind help and thanks for your contribution here. It really is a gift to the ungrateful, which God will reward.
That is not an unwritten official rule, but deals with a judgment of whether a rule has been broken. And their brevity and judicious and mature application of such is far far better than the over sensitive nanny state censorship of such a major forum as (so-called) christianforums.com that banned me (you could not even discuss discipline of mod actions in private emails)
"Would it be appropriate for me or anyone to attach a caucus label to my own posts? "
If you have a specific identifiable (not vague or fringe) known group fit for the RF, like KJV - only maybe. But just calling something a caucus does not mean the RM will recognize it as fitting.
"Certain there is one unofficial rule which people like Humblegunner have enforced passionately, the prohibition against posting anything associated with a blog."
No, i do not see Humblegunner chastising posters for posting anything associated with a blog, but for "blog pimping," meaning posting just a portion of an article, and not the meat of it, so that readers need to go to the page to read the rest, thereby gaining hit$ for the "pimp," when as the original artist, he could just post the whole thing on FR. I can understand posting a substantial portion of a very very long article with a link to supplemental material in order to not overwhelm readers here, but not brevity in order to get hits as with posting tidbits or the like.
And the latter can warrant some scolding, as may those who carelessly post the first 3 sentences (sometimes even including Facebook promos) when 300 word excerpts are allowed (as is the case for most), and a "Reader's Digest" edition could provide the meat of it. For Fr is a new aggregator, in which you can choose to have 250 article excerpts (at 100 words each) on the article page and skim thru such, and it saves must time to be able to see the meat of the article there or when you open it rather than having to open a new page (often with over 100-200 background network requests, vs. 3 for FR). Thus i posted An exhortation to those who post thread (normally post as much of the meat of the article as allowed, describe videos, etc.)
"Thank you for your kind help and thanks for your contribution here. It really is a gift to the ungrateful, which God will reward."
Glory to God if it helps.