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Please treat this discussion forum with respect. This is a shared community of wine lovers who want to share knowledge and interests through ongoing conversation.
These are not hard and fast rules, merely guidelines to aid the human judgement of our community and keep this a clean and well-lighted an enlightened place for civilised public discourse.
Improve the discussion
All contributions are welcome, so long as they improve the discussion in some way, however small.
Please be respectful of the topics and the people discussing them, even if you disagree with some of what is being said.
One way to improve the discussion is by discovering ones that are already happening. Spend time browsing the topics here before replying or starting your own.
Be agreeable, even when you disagree
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- Name-calling
- Ad hominem attacks
- Responding to a post’s tone instead of its actual content
- Knee-jerk contradiction
Instead, provide reasoned counter-arguments that improve the conversation.
Your participation counts
The conversations we have here set the tone for every new arrival. Help us influence the future of the forum by choosing to engage in discussions that make this forum an interesting place to be — and avoiding those that do not.
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Keep it tidy
Make the effort to put things in the right place, so that we can spend more time discussing and less cleaning up. So:
- Don’t start a topic in the wrong category. Anything travel related should go in the travel forum. Everything else goes in the main forum.
- Don’t cross-post the same thing in multiple topics.
- Don’t post no-content replies.
- Don’t divert a topic by changing it midstream.
- Don’t sign your posts — every post has your profile information attached to it.
Rather than posting “+1” or “Agreed”, use the Like button. Rather than taking an existing topic in a radically different direction, use Reply as a Linked Topic.
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