Standards for the Blackweekly.com Community!

This is a place to discuss the social, political and economic issues that affect our lives in Los Angeles. Through live chat, message boards and email, the Blackweekly.com Community provides you the opportunity to express your thoughts and opinions to your friends and neighbors. Opinions posted on the message boards or in chat rooms are those of the individual member. The views expressed are personal and do not necessarily reflect the views of Blackweekly.com.

Please note: You must be at least 18 years old to participate in any part of the Blackweekly.com community.

Rules of conduct:

Comments posted on our message boards which violate our standards are routinely removed. We reserve the right to close the accounts of persistent violators of these standards. Chatters who violate our standards while in our chat rooms will be removed from the chat server.

Profanity or obscenities of any kind are not permitted, not even if disguised with *asterisks.

Slanderous, defamatory, obscene, indecent, lewd, pornographic, violent, abusive, insulting, threatening and harassing comments are not tolerated.

No personal attacks or "flames" are allowed. Flames are defined as comments that reflect upon the person instead of their opinion.

Real names must be provided upon registration. No impersonation of other participants or community leaders is permitted.

Please try to stay on topic. And no spamming, please, or speculation about the identity of other participants.

Do not share any personal information (phone numbers, email, home address, etc.) with others on the site. Any such posts will be removed without comment and chatters will be banned. This is for your protection!

No advertising of any kind, including non-profit organizations, is permitted.

No copyrighted material is allowed. Please use links instead of quotes.

No oversize fonts, JavaScript, tables, headings or other advanced HTML commands are allowed on message boards. Please use only bold or colored fonts to emphasize your points.


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