House Rules
General Orders:
Do not post messages/items that are unlawful, harassing, defamatory, or abusive.
Do not post Hate Speech, defines as "any comments intended to degrade, intimidate, or incite violence or prejudicial action against a person or group of people based on their race, gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, language ability, moral or political views, socioeconomic class, occupation or appearance.
"No spamming or flooding. Don't repost the same message/items or very similar messages/items, more than once. Relevance. Interesting posts that are off the current topic are acceptable. When that happens, we'll try to start another thread, and move the comments over. However, banal or repetitive off-topic posts lower the value of the conversation for everyone and may be removed.
No impersonating. Impersonating someone is not acceptable (however, impersonation of comical intent will be tolerated with reserved right to censor and/or reject base on our interpretations).
Links. Do not post stupid random links.
Copyright and the law. You own the copyright in your postings, but you also agree to grant to The American Legion a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to any such work worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content. In other words, if you post a good comment, we may use it in our publications. If you do not wish to grant such rights, do not post to this site. You may not violate, plagiarize, or infringe on the rights of third parties including copyright, trademark, trade secret, privacy, personal, publicity, or proprietary rights. Phew.
Standing Orders:
Constitutions and By-laws. The American Legion is a resolution based grassroots organization. As such, The American Legion National Commander is the only spokesperson of the organization. Although personal comments and voices of dissent are welcome, any posted messages/items, implicitly or explicitly denoting representation of the whole organization not adhering to the resolutions passed by the National Executive Committee will be removed without notification.
