Writer's Guidelines and Policy

Reasons People Get Banned from this Site

I certainly hope none of this ever needs to be enforced but God instructs us to be wise.

I am trying to build an online Christian community, and that community requires respect and courtesy. People will get their points across with much more force if they are rooted in Scripture as well as polite as opposed to illogical, unchristian or irate.

Anger doesn't sell a point. The Word of God and respect of others are more effective.


I don't like to ban people, but I have rules that we won't tolerate being broken. Here's a list of actions and behaviors within comments that will lead to banning:

-Hate speech-- God would not see anyone perish but all come to eternal life.

-Name calling, ad hominem personal attacks.

-Spamming the site-- posting the same comment on multiple articles, also known as 'astro-turfing'

- undermining the purpose of the site - to glorify God

-making threats

-attacking the website or posting emails or inside information from the site in any content on this site or other site, or emailing. (You have every right to attack the site, but I don't have to keep you as a member if you do.)

-Repeated episodes of uncivil postings on the site.

-repeated violations of copyrights

-illegal activity

-posting pornography, or links to pornography to the site

Most of the people who are banned from this site have been members for a short time, often one day. They come in, think they can get nasty and leave. But consider this-- being banned on this site is recorded. You are banned by your IP address and email, not only from this site, but from all the sites in the populum.com system. That system is growing. Do you really want to risk not being able to access other sites as well?