The BlackWebPortal.com forums are about debate, dialogue, and resolution. The BWP forums are not about the modern propagation of lies. In this respect, the BWP forums does not reflect the views of modern network and cable media where lies are offered as truths and a repeated lie can become a truth. At the BWP forums, if that untruth is caught it shall be corrected. At a lower level, forums that are found to be deliberate obfuscation of the truth shall be disabled at the program level from being captured by crawling search engines. If the forums are fooled in the analysis of the truth or said, common wisdom, the forum shall offer a correction. Now, what do we mean by known lies?
Known lies are of the type propagated by the George W. Bush administration, e.g., there are Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) in Iraq. This was a proven lie by a myriad of sources in 1999 through 2002, in particular by the former U.N. Chief Weapons Inspector in Iraq, Scott Ritter) yet, the USA went to war. Other lies resulted from the election of a Black man to the office of the Presidency. Such lies about his country of birth were an aggregious attempt to tarnish the historical USA presidential election of 2008. This site shall not propagate such lies in the wake of so much evidence by all sides of the argument to the contrary. Our Action: Such lies, when detected shall be flagged so they cannot be indexed by brand named search engines. (edit)
This site does not buy into modern day McCarthyism. Thus claiming that someone is socialist, communist, fascist, etc. in an attempt to defamed said person shall be tagged as 'mccarthy' and shall be 'robotted' out of search engine results at Google, Bing, Yahoo, Altavista, etc., in order not to allow the lie to replicate from the BlackWebPortal.com. Tagging of topics shall be performed several times a day. This site believes that issues can be discussed without the labelling that people see or here on normal 'Faux TV' news shows.
Hey, folks don't mind a little trash talk now and then, but sometimes you just have to say, enough is enough. Since the BWP forums are about superior debate and dialogue, the moderators at the site expect a bit more than individual utilizing coarse language to make a point. We shall leave most of the coarse language to the myriad of other sites that believe that controversial language keeps viewers. We disagree. However, there will be times when the coarse language is acceptable and shall be retain. The goal here is not to be too prudish about the use of such language, but to let participants know that there is a limit.
This site shall not accept substitute names for any race. Thus a Black person can be called by any number of acceptable names (Black, Black African, African-American, and even Negro since historically it has been accepted by the Diaspora in America). However, the use of Nigger is discouraged due to its historical context and negative connotation. When it comes to whites or Caucasians, those two names are considered proper. Thus use of negatives (cracker, freckle, or any other negative name) is not allowed in the title or body of the text. The same sort of anti-negative name calling applies to every race, religion, and disability.
The topic creating avatar, TheCreator will be renamed BWPStaff. The BWPStaff avatar creates topics that mainly focus on stem from headlines, freelance, blog, and main stream media feeds. Occasionally the avatar may reply, but typically the avatar will start topics that the visiting audience my find of interest.
These rules are from the original rule set
DO NOT MAKE USERNAMES ALL NUMBERS:
Please put a personality to your login. Do not use all numbers as a username. In addition, spaces and special characters shall not be accepted in the submission process. It will simply be deleted and you can enter again. It is our policy and we will not change itDO NOT MAKE TOPICS ALL CAPITALS:
Finally, do not make your topics and responses all capitals as they will be edited if time permits or deleted if there is not enough time. All caps are considered a SHOUT.IMPROPER E-MAIL:
If a user submits an improper username, a welcome statement containing their temporary password will not be received. It is against our policy to manually forward an email address to anyone (there may be special cases) that loses there address. Instead, all users must utilize the lost password tool to recover their lost password.NEWSLETTER REQUIREMENT:
When you sign up for our forum you are automatically added to the forum newsletter. This newsletter is designed to keep you informed of the top topics and discussions of the moment. Since our auto-mailer application detects the presence or lack of a email address, if an email address is bounced 3 consecutive times that particular account is automatically disabled.FOUL LANGUAGE:
We allow a little foul language, after all we do expect adults to use this forum, but try to keep it tasteful and in context of the topic of discussion.NO SALES PROMOTION:
If you have products to sell, you cannot sell them in our forums. When detected {which is most times since users tattle} we will eliminate the post and suspend the account.NO SPAMMING OR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENTS:
We urge all of our participants to exercise good netiquette by annotating all borrowed material. i.e., tell us what newspaper or magazine a particular article came from and include the entire link. {via our privacy policy we are not responsible for user submitted data.}NO DUPLICATE USERNAMES:
Once a username is taken it cannot be duplicated. Thus we only disable users, thus preventing new users from taking a previous user's identity.NO NUDE PHOTOS:
You may get the feeling to post a picture that enhances the discussion, that is ok, but please be sure that the people in the pictures are clothed.NO MARKETING OF OTHER DISCUSSION BOARDS:
We work hard at keeping this board up to date, we expect other board owners to do the same. If you really want to market your board in our board, a payment arrangement can be worked out.NO PRESS RELEASES IN THE BOARDS
- Please note that our forums is not a place for your firms or periodical's news releases. In fact, if you have an event to list, please use our event utility. Note, all rules of the Event Register apply.Have we missed anything? We really want to know. The BWP Forums shall return soon.