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You agree that you are fully responsible for the content that you post. You may not post content that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, abusive, that violates a third party’s right to privacy, that otherwise violates any applicable local, state, national or international law, or that is otherwise inappropriate. Furthermore, you may not post content that degrades others on the basis of gender, race, class, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual preference, disability or other classification. Language intended to intimidate or to incite violence and anger will not be tolerated.
Please be aware that new entries and comments are posted immediately to the blog. Blog Administrators review content several times per day, but we may not spot a problem the moment it is posted. If you spot an item that needs attention, please contact a Blog Administrator. [See next major section below.]
You understand and agree that NMT Web Designs, LLC, or Blog Administrators may modify the content of your entries and/or comments. We may monitor user-generated content as we choose, and we reserve the right to remove, edit or otherwise alter content that we deem inappropriate for any reason.
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These rules are posted on the Portland Community Website www.portlandtn.com
Additional site notes:
Blog software, of course, allows authors to create new entries. Most blog software, including the software we use [Movable Type], also allows authors to delete entries they wrote and all of the comments associated with their entry. There is no way that we can keep blog authors from doing this, but we ask you not to! Please do not delete your entries from the blog nor any of the comments people make. This is a historical record of the thoughts of Portland, and we would like to preserve it.
People who create a new entry have the ability to turn off comments (i.e., comments are not allowed). Please do not use this option. The purpose of the blog is to have discussions, and turning off the comment flag defeats this purpose. Under very rare circumstances, the blog administrator may turn the comments flag off. This may occur if the discussion has gotten totally out of hand. We may also turn off comments on very old threads; after a time, the only comments being posted to some of these old threads are spam.
Moveable Type uses extensive filters to filter out spam. (It currently filters out over 100 spam messages per day.) This is done automatically, and we do not review what's being deleted. If you post a comment with two or more links to external sites, Moveable Type will assume that is spam.
If you are starting a new business, we welcome you to post one or two messages to introduce yourself and your business. However, please do not use the blog to advertise your business on a regular basis. For example, if you are a new real estate agent, we'd all like to know about you. However, after that, please do not post your house listings on the blog. :-)
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