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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

Thank you for your quick response. Of course I am aware of the general guidelines of Free republic and read them well upon entering. We should all be civil to one another and not need special rules of conduct. I think profanity should absolutly be discouraged. I also think mocking ones religion is very bad too. I have seen a lot of that here on these types of threads and on many other threads. I think these "flame wars" are all over the internet when it comes to this subject in particular. It will be for a long time to come. There will never be a quick fix for that. I admire your good intentions though, very much. I am wondering what others think about the extreme measures having to be made here. I also wonder if there is an underlying motivation here. I tend to be suspicious of such things.
I will state, for the record, that I mean no harm, ill will, or any other nasty feelings toward anyone here or anywhere eles for that matter. I agree to be as kind to everyone as possible. I will call no person stupid or dumb and expect the same in return. If when posting a thought, I disagree with the "popular crowd" here, I will simply go somewhere eles at that time as not to interrupt the think fest populus. I am aware that as a Christian, I am in uncharted waters here and will not attempt to swim with sharks, no pun intended. I am aware that I am in the minority.
There, that is my agreement. I hope it is acceptable.

Hopefully, there will be such peace that nobody will see the need for it and thus, it will become obsolete.

The following does not seem conducive to that goal.

Therefore gore3000 is a "non-compliant poster," and he may hereafter be called a provocateur, troll, spammer, or disruptor, and doing so will not be a violation of the agreement.