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Access Mexico Connect's Forums
Policy and terms of use
1. The Mexico Connect forums are founded to allow free exchange of ideas and opinions on cultural, social, travel, living, and economic issues, so as to promote understanding, interest and exchange of experiences and information about Mexico.
2. Constructive, rational and thoughtful posts on the different themes are welcome. Please feel free to browse any forum however, the forums require registration for posting and responding. Please post to the appropriate forums for a better audience, and do not cross post. Suggestions for new forums are welcome.
3. All messages are the expression of the contributors, who are solely responsible for the content. Access Mexico Connect does not endorse any specific views or stance. The moderators may stimulate the discussion with their own remarks.
4. This is NOT a private chat room. The posts are read by people from all over the world. Personal messages should be communicated through private emails. For that reason, you MUST provide a deliveralbe email address. Failure to do so will prevent you from further posting.
5.Users shall indemnify and save and hold Mexico Connect - MexConnect.Com LLC and Conexción México S. A. de C.V., its assigns, agents, employees, and successors in interest, from and against all claims, demands, liability, and expenses arising out of any and all contact with MexicoConnect, including without limitation all postings made to electronic media. Users further warrant that each contribution shall be original with the poster, that the poster is the sole author of the contribution, that they are not subject to any existing copyright, that publication of their contributions will not libel anyone or infringe upon or invade the rights of others, and that the user has the full power to make this Agreement. Do not copy and paste other articles verbatim in its entirety. Please read these articles about copyrights and plagiarism.
6. Posting to the forum is a privilege (not a right), which you earn and maintain through your intellectual and compassionate contribution. While removal of postings is kept to a minimum, irrelevant and substandard posts may be removed to maintain high quality of the forums. Harassment, abuse, threats, obscenity, spams, commercial advertisements and other objectionable content are rejected. Repeated offences will result in the loss of posting privilege.
7. Please read the Forum FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions). You will gain a good perspective of how the Forums work if you do.
Forum Etiquette:
1. Use your real name as much as possible. If you can't for various reasons, we certainly understand. At least choose a name that can be addressed to and is is representative of your character. Provide a deliverable email address for private communication outside the forums.
2. Choose a subject title carefully. This forum already has a wide scope that can almost accomodate anything under the sun. When you start a thread, try to make the subject title self-explanatory but not too long. Don't use a paragraph as a title. It takes up a lot of space and is hard to read.
3. Stay with the thread. Start a new thread if you are diverging to something else. When the thread gets to more than 50 posts, it might be better to start a new one. You can compress the thread to view back topics better.
4. Respond to issues, not to personalities. This way, it will be less emotional. Use civil language and never attack anyone personally by his/her ethnic background, country of origin, etc. Obscenity is absolutely forbidden. This will absolutely cost your membership to the forum.
5. Do elaborate your ideas if it is a new thread. Humor, sarcasm are by all means encouraged. Everyone has a different style. But make sure you have plenty of supporting evidence and information to back up your argument. A one-liner without substance is the best way to expose ignorance and shallowness.
6. Be tolerant and patient when debating with someone with a different view. Your goal is to have the other side sharing the same view as yours, whether the right view is yours or his/hers. There might not be one solution or one correct view any way. Confrontation would widen the gap further. Try to think from the other party's angle. You might learn something.
It would be a lot tougher to modify your position if you insist you are right all the time. If you feel the other side is more convincing, admit it. It will be more embarassing and even hurtful to hold an erroneous view. Sharing different views is better than arguing.
7. Know when to quit. When two parties are repeating the same arguments over and over without new insights, there is no point in continuing.
8. Give new users some slack. Don't chastise them for not reading all of Mexico Connect first. Make them feel welcome into the community. We were all newbies once.
Tips:
1. Check the forums and the relevant Mexico Connect sections before asking your question. If it already has been resolved, it will save you the wait for someone to answer or the aggravation to another user to search for you.
2. Help others. This is a community and it works best when we share information. Though we don't have a Karma system running, however, we have a more powerful version: other members will remember your deeds and will go to greater lengths to help you if you've been good to them in the past.
Final Note:
Have fun! These are guidelines, they are intended to give users a set of rules we can apply if trouble strikes. It's really to protect you and others from feeling hurt or intimidated by others on the forums, we want you and your opinions to feel welcome here.
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