Posting Rules
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- Outside Sources: From time to time it may be helpful to post links to various articles concerning Austrian economics, feel free to do so if it benefits the discussion at hand. If you are quoting an outside source, respect copyright laws (and the ethical principles underlying them) by keeping the quotation very short and by providing a link or other reference to the original.
- Heated Arguments: Healthy debate is encouraged, but if your argument with another poster becomes heated, remember: agree to disagree. Do not resort to personal attacks, and do not belittle someone else’s argument. Instead of making it personal, use rational, persuasive skills to make your point or criticize theirs.
- Administrators: The Community Admins (see below) of the Mises Community reserve the right to modify or delete any material that violates any of these rules, or for any other reason that they deem appropriate. They also reserve the right to ban any user if they are in violation of the board’s rules, although warnings will generally be given first (especially concerning the more innocent mistakes). Egregious violations of rules may result in a banning without warning.
Admins and Mods
The Community is overseen by the Community Admins (see the roster below). To contact the Community Admins, send an email to [email protected] Users are able to create their own Community Groups. Users are automatically made ” Group Admins” of whatever group they create. Group Admins can designate other group members as “Group Mods”. Group Admins and Mods may moderate discussion within the group pursuant to the above Posting Rules. If Group Members repeatedly or severely break the above Posting Rules, Group Admins and Mods may remove them from the group, and should also notify the Community Admins. If Group Admins and Mods moderate arbitrarily, otherwise abuse their moderating capacity, or in any way demonstrate their unfitness to moderate, they can will be demoted by a Community Admin.
Community Admins (Alphabetical by First Name)
Blake Barber
Daniel Muffinberg
Getting to know the new WordPress/Buddypress Community software
There are multiple content flows:
- Basic “Status” Updates – which can be posted by either Users or Groups (which are entities themselves, much like facebook fan pages). These function much like facebook status updates. They aren’t meant for big long rants, but short, transitory blurbs (thus, no rich text editor, and they get pushed down over time). Embedded links will be working shortly. These “updates” show up in the activity stream, and can be replied to right in the activity stream in a threaded manner. Group members are able to post updates either to their own profiles or to the Group profile.
- Group Forum Topics – for more robust writing and discussion, as those topics persist, can be organized, and don’t disappear with time like status updates do. Each Group has its own independent forum, with its own settings, moderators (the group admins), and topics. Forum topic activity does show up in the global activity stream, and readers can follow the links to visit the forum topic thread.
- User Blog Posts and Comments – each user can have their own wordpress blog (though for the moment, adding plugins and themes are restricted), and blog posts and comments show up in the activity stream. Like forum topics, however, one cannot reply to the blog post or comment *from the activity stream*, they must go to the blog post to participate. Blog comments are self-contained, so discussions that happen within a blog stay within just that blog (except for the notices in the activity stream).
