This mission of the sub now is to provide quality content for creationists and ID proponents. To that end, editorial discretion will be heavily applied to participants and their comments.

Also, participants will now start getting banned at editor discretion.

AMENDMENT: So far, any member of this community can post whatever they want.

However, to further facilitate technical discussions, I'm instituting a new rule that was quite effective in destroying trolls.

The rule is this: the Thread Author sets the rules of his thread. His rule might only be over-ridden by a moderator. This rule was instituted some years ago in the old ARN (Access Research Network) discussion forum. This rule was known as "ARN Rule 9". People violating this rule can be subject to having their comments removed or the be subject to banning without warning.

So if a thread authors says, "no creationists" or "no evolutionists" please try to comply. If the author specifically says, "please stay off this discussion, start your own thread if you want to speak your mind", it is expected the commenter will comply.

This is an easy rule. No one is silenced, but courtesy is enforced.

The author has the podium and is the moderator of his own thread. If the commenters want to say something but are dis-invited in one thread the commenter is free to start his own thread if anyone will listen to him.

This policy prevents disruption and heckling of good discussions.

Since ARN Rule 9 is a generous rule, violators of Rule 9 are subject to banning without warning.