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Hello alamogirl
I have a question. It may seem a little stupid but here goes. This "agreement" up for review. Is this typical practice? It seems so legal/formal. This is an adult site am I right? Do we adults need to sign some form of agreement to discuss a topic on this site? Cannot we all simply be civil to one another without some type of school rules if you will. This seems a little odd to me, but that's just me. Name calling is something we were scolded for in school as children. I am under the assumption that this is a site for enjoyable and sometimes active engagement of conversation. I think these "rules" seem a little fuzzy and kind of takes the fun out of being free to talk. Just too legalistic. But, you have been here longer and proabaly know more about this than I do. Can't we all just get along, not to put too fine a point on a cliche.

Welcome to Free Republic, concisetraveler!

Indeed, there are general guidelines for the Free Republic forum which you can find here.

The science threads involving Evolution v Creation/Intelligent Design have always been rather lively on the forum but in the past few months became so toxic with flame wars that several threads were deleted and others were relegated to the Smokey Backroom. The abuse button was being hit frequently. A tremendous amount of research was lost on the deleted threads and people were quite "on edge."

To make a long story short, the flame warring parties agreed to agree on some special rules for the willing parties on these threads to try to make and keep the peace.

We are in the second week of this agreement and it comes up for review at 30 days. Hopefully, there will be such peace that nobody will see the need for it and thus, it will become obsolete.

But until that day comes, we who are willing (it is a completely voluntary agreement) "shall treat others on these threads as we wish to be treated ourselves" in accordance with the guidelines. Agreement of the Willing