Welcome to Gables Home Page. By participating in any dialogue, posting or other services hosted on this website, you agree to follow and comply with the terms and conditions outlined below. The Gables Home Page seeks to promote and host a civil discourse on a variety of topics of interest to our readers. The Gables Home Page endeavors to provide its users with an opportunity to express themselves, but the Gables Home Page does not accept any responsibility or liability for the content of any such communications, though the Gables Home Page reserves the right to withhold, remove or delete at any time and in the sole discretion of the Gables Home Page staff any communications, postings or expressions that fail to abide by these terms or that otherwise detract from the quality, nature and value of the Gables Home Page and the civil discourse it hopes to foster. For the guidance of our users, we offer the following examples of what to do and what not to do on this site.
What to do:
- Share your thoughts, ideas, and questions
- Respectfully consider the thoughts, ideas, and questions of others.
- Consider unfamiliar or divergent perspectives.
- Remember that tension, when dealt with productively, can lead to solutions.
- Understand not only the ethics of communications, but also any applicable laws, including the law of defamation and privacy.
- Be original.
- Ask questions when things are not clear.
- Learn something new.
- Have fun.
Don’ts
- Judge.
- Launch or participate in personal attacks.
- Stereotype members of other communities.
- Derail conversations with your own agenda.
- Post content that is offensive, racist, discriminatory, defamatory, an invasion of privacy or otherwise illegal.
- Post content that belongs to others without their permission.
Again, we hope to give people a wide berth to express themselves, within the limits of good taste, civility and the law, but we reserve the right to withhold, remove or delete any material that in our opinion is inappropriate or otherwise a violation of these terms or guidelines. We may do this without any advance notice. We also reserve the right to suspend, without advance notice,the accounts or access of individuals or users who have failed to follow these guidelines.
