Atheist Republic remains committed to the free and open expression of ideas across the atheist community. Free speech in the Atheist Republic fora is absolute and unwavering. As a reminder, differences exist between free speech and consequence-free speech.
The following guidelines are in place in the Atheist Republic Private Facebook Group and the Atheist Republic Website Forum to help foster healthy and safe online discussion. Willful violation of these guidelines may result in removal from the Atheist Republic community.
- The Atheist Republic fora are reserved exclusively for atheists. As other fora exist for supernatural beliefs, proselytizing is not permitted.
- Please make no attempt to spam or solicit group members.
- Please do not troll, bait, or otherwise attempt to provoke an argument.
- Please do not issue personal attacks. This includes but is not limited to racist, sexist, or homophobic comments, sexual harassment, and threats of physical violence (including enticements of self harm).
- When posting non-English content, please include an English translation. Also remember that our community is diverse, so before correcting spelling or grammar, please consider English may not be their primary language.
- Please do not post violent content directly to the fora. It is permissible to link to violent content, but please issue a warning regarding what will be seen if the link is followed.
- All posted content must comply with Facebook's terms of service. Please report violations to the Atheist Republic administrators rather than reporting directly to Facebook. An attempt to block an administrator from content is a terminable offense.
- To protect the privacy of our group members, please do not reproduce group content outside the Atheist Republic without the express permission of the administrators.
Please report violations of these guidelines to the Atheist Republic administrative team.
A note from Armin:
"It is important to make it clear that this is not an atheist creed. These are not guidelines or suggested standards for all atheists. These are only guidelines for Atheist Republic as an organization that we have found work for our team, and in no way are we are suggesting that they are a set of standards that all atheists should adhere to. We have never suggested, nor do we wish to make it appear as if we are trying to speak for the atheist community as a whole. We only represent our team and fellow members of the Atheist Republic community."
We appreciate your contributions to our ever-growing community and want to ensure respectful, and hopefully productive discourse. Please reply to this email if you have any input related to these guidelines.
Thank you.
