Members of Berean Apologetic Ministry forum are considerate, motivated by love and not hate, and they respect one another. Because our members are considerate, loving, and respectful, they do not make overly provocative posts, posts which seek to annoy or cause disruption, or posts which personally attack other members out of anger and frustration.
Our members desire to contribute in a positive and loving manner so that this Forum will display the gracious love of God. The above motto on our forum is for the benefit of this community to have a safe place where all faiths and people are welcomed to ask questions, receive answers and express their views freely without hinderance or concern of retaliation. We value your religious freedoms of expression and ideas.
Rules List:
1a. No vulgarity, profanity, name calling, or slang expression(s) that could be interpreted as a suggestion of impropriety or generally regarded as demeaning in nature. (Ephesians 5:3-5) Address members by their screen names and do not mock or make fun of their names.
1b.No abusive, insulting, or derogatory language. (Colossians 3:5, 8)
1c. No attacks on another poster's religious beliefs, race, national origin, or gender.
1d. No chats that deteriorate into petty bickering, gossip, backbiting, or argumentative bantering.
2. No Flaming, Goading, Gaslighting or Harassment.
2a. All members should be treated with the utmost respect and courtesy at all times following the rules of civil discourse.
2b. No insults are allowed. Included in this are all forms of flaming, harassment, and trolling/goading as determined at the discretion of the Berean Board Team. Trolling/Goading is defined as repeated attempts through the use of images, cartoons, smileys or text that is designed to be explicitly demeaning, patronizing, embarrassing, or otherwise upsetting to a member or group of members in the community. Do not call anyone a heretic, false teacher, a cultist , satanic or any other such term.
2c. Do not discuss other posters.
2d. This further includes making false statements or accusations about a member. Do not lie about anyone or call them a liar.
Sarcasm is not included under this rule.
2e-Do not attack another member's character in any way. Address the post content, not the member's character, family, denominational affiliation, religion or any other subject that may be perceived as a personal attack by the Berean Board team and is not germane to the topic or post at hand.
2f-Do not state or imply that another member or group of members who have identified themselves as Christian are not Christians. Please privately contact the Berean Board Team to voice your concern and not in public. If you have an issue with any member of moderator please use the report function below the post and address it to the Administrator of the forum.
2g-If a member requests the cessation of all personal contact, then please respect that member's wish.
2h- when a thread starts becoming heated, our staff may edit any offending posts that are targeted negatively toward another member or otherwise disrupt the flow. A staff member may address you in the offending thread or in Private Message. You may be sent a system notification with a brief description of why the message was deleted from the staff member who removed your post.
3. No soliciting
3a. No soc accounts which will result in a permanent ban from the forum.
4. Copy and paste of large amounts of text.
4a. Please limit your posts to 10K characters or less and do not copy & paste large amounts of content.
4b. Feel free to copy and paste your own writings. But please limit the amount of copy and paste of text from websites and include a link for members to read the rest of the article. What would be ideal would be one paragraph and then the link to the rest of the information. No more than 2 cut and pastes per day, per thread. Educators teach rules governing the length of paragraphs. They say that a paragraph should be 100 to 200 words long, or be no more than five or six sentences.
4c. 1 link per post, 1 video per thread and only 2 new threads per day for members.
4d. Threads started by members or posts are not to be considered as a member's thread or otherwise "owned".
4e. When quoting another poster do not change their content or words which will result in a temporary ban or vacation from the forum.
4f. Do not plagiarize. If it’s not your work quote or reference the source material you are posting. This includes misrepresenting the source material.
5. All Caps
5a. Do not use all caps in your name, the title if any threads you start or in your posts. typing in all caps is essentially considered yelling in online communication. It is sometimes useful for emphasis but can also be rude and offensive. A few words are fine but not large blocks of texts.
If you have any questions or concerns private message one of the administrators.
Our members desire to contribute in a positive and loving manner so that this Forum will display the gracious love of God. The above motto on our forum is for the benefit of this community to have a safe place where all faiths and people are welcomed to ask questions, receive answers and express their views freely without hinderance or concern of retaliation. We value your religious freedoms of expression and ideas.
Rules List:
1a. No vulgarity, profanity, name calling, or slang expression(s) that could be interpreted as a suggestion of impropriety or generally regarded as demeaning in nature. (Ephesians 5:3-5) Address members by their screen names and do not mock or make fun of their names.
1b.No abusive, insulting, or derogatory language. (Colossians 3:5, 8)
1c. No attacks on another poster's religious beliefs, race, national origin, or gender.
1d. No chats that deteriorate into petty bickering, gossip, backbiting, or argumentative bantering.
2. No Flaming, Goading, Gaslighting or Harassment.
2a. All members should be treated with the utmost respect and courtesy at all times following the rules of civil discourse.
2b. No insults are allowed. Included in this are all forms of flaming, harassment, and trolling/goading as determined at the discretion of the Berean Board Team. Trolling/Goading is defined as repeated attempts through the use of images, cartoons, smileys or text that is designed to be explicitly demeaning, patronizing, embarrassing, or otherwise upsetting to a member or group of members in the community. Do not call anyone a heretic, false teacher, a cultist , satanic or any other such term.
2c. Do not discuss other posters.
2d. This further includes making false statements or accusations about a member. Do not lie about anyone or call them a liar.
Sarcasm is not included under this rule.
2e-Do not attack another member's character in any way. Address the post content, not the member's character, family, denominational affiliation, religion or any other subject that may be perceived as a personal attack by the Berean Board team and is not germane to the topic or post at hand.
2f-Do not state or imply that another member or group of members who have identified themselves as Christian are not Christians. Please privately contact the Berean Board Team to voice your concern and not in public. If you have an issue with any member of moderator please use the report function below the post and address it to the Administrator of the forum.
2g-If a member requests the cessation of all personal contact, then please respect that member's wish.
2h- when a thread starts becoming heated, our staff may edit any offending posts that are targeted negatively toward another member or otherwise disrupt the flow. A staff member may address you in the offending thread or in Private Message. You may be sent a system notification with a brief description of why the message was deleted from the staff member who removed your post.
3. No soliciting
3a. No soc accounts which will result in a permanent ban from the forum.
4. Copy and paste of large amounts of text.
4a. Please limit your posts to 10K characters or less and do not copy & paste large amounts of content.
4b. Feel free to copy and paste your own writings. But please limit the amount of copy and paste of text from websites and include a link for members to read the rest of the article. What would be ideal would be one paragraph and then the link to the rest of the information. No more than 2 cut and pastes per day, per thread. Educators teach rules governing the length of paragraphs. They say that a paragraph should be 100 to 200 words long, or be no more than five or six sentences.
4c. 1 link per post, 1 video per thread and only 2 new threads per day for members.
4d. Threads started by members or posts are not to be considered as a member's thread or otherwise "owned".
4e. When quoting another poster do not change their content or words which will result in a temporary ban or vacation from the forum.
4f. Do not plagiarize. If it’s not your work quote or reference the source material you are posting. This includes misrepresenting the source material.
5. All Caps
5a. Do not use all caps in your name, the title if any threads you start or in your posts. typing in all caps is essentially considered yelling in online communication. It is sometimes useful for emphasis but can also be rude and offensive. A few words are fine but not large blocks of texts.
If you have any questions or concerns private message one of the administrators.
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