[PatrickHenry]

To be in compliance with the agreement one must have, among other things, "freely and in good faith agreed that..."

True. But there are several regulars in our threads who haven't bothered themselves with the agreement at all, who were absent from the drafting thread, who avoided all the quibbles and petty disputes, but who nevertheless conduct themselves as if they were complying posters. That is, their posts are always respectful, never provocative, never spamming, never involved in nit-picking irrelevant trivia, etc. We might consider them "virtuous non-signers."

[PatrickHenry]

Post 399 is for you too.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for your post!

I certainly agree with what you said - there are many 'virtuous non-signers' on these threads. Some have seen the agreement and chose not sign, but by their conduct do not and would not participate in a flame war.

[longshadow]

virtuous placemarker

[Ichneumon]

But there are several regulars in our threads who haven't bothered themselves with the agreement at all, who were absent from the drafting thread, who avoided all the quibbles and petty disputes, but who nevertheless conduct themselves as if they were complying posters. That is, their posts are always respectful, never provocative, never spamming, never involved in nit-picking irrelevant trivia, etc. We might consider them "virtuous non-signers."

I agree, and I have taken care to treat them as such, and will continue to do so.