Ground Rules
Rule 1: ChemBark is a private site that costs good money to run. The editors are free to do what they want here.
Rule 2: The editors will do their best to be fair in managing what goes on here.
Rule 3: The concept of guaranteed “free speech” does not apply here (a private site).
Rule 4: Readers are free to comment anonymously.
Rule 5: ChemBark cannot guarantee the anonymity of commenters and readers.
Rule 6: Commenters are responsible for what they say—not ChemBark’s management.
Rule 7: Trolls will be banned. Spam will be deleted.
Rule 8: Comments will appear in sequence, rather than nested.
Rule 9: ChemBark will not maintain a blogroll.
Rule 10: ChemBark does not print ads. ChemBark does not run paid posts.
Rule 11: Commenters may not post under more than one username per thread.
Rule 12: Usernames may not be used by commenters to impersonate real people or regular anonymous commenters.
Rule 13: Prolonged discourse from one user in successive comments in a single thread (i.e., “crapfloods”) may be condensed into one comment or deleted entirely.
Rule 14: Unspecific or similarly vacuous negative comments by unidentifiable users may be deleted or censored.
Rule 15: Comments containing personal information with little or no relevance to chemistry will be deleted.
(Explanation of rules 1–10)
(Explanation of rules 11–13)
(Explanation of rules 14 and 15)
