COMMENT SECTION RULES

This agreements is designed to create a "safe" and fulfilling comment section experience. Speak from your own, personal experience: for instance, using "I" statements whenever appropriate. Respect the diversity of guests, host, and others' viewpoints. 

Respect guest confidentiality; don't identify a guest from the show to anyone outside by surname, description, or other means-without their permission. You may discuss general content of shows, but do not discuss anything that might reveal the full identity of a guest without their prior permission. 

Failure to comply with these terms may result in permanent blocking of your comments.

By commenting, you will abide by the following:

1. You will not attack others--even if you strongly disagree with their views. This applies to emails posted to the group or to the person directly. You will be banned from the comments section by the moderator if you have verbally or in any other way attacked someone.

2. You will always respect the confidentiality of others.

3. You will post messages only on issues that are pertinent to the list.

4. You will respect people's gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, HIV status, political affiliations, etc.

5. You will not post for profit information, unless pre-approved by moderator.

6. You believe HIV is the cause of AIDS.

7. As a new member, you will read the previous postings on the website before posting the same question again.

8. Your messages may or may not get approved by the moderator. You will accept the moderator's best judgement and will not argue about it with him/her.

9. You will snip off and edit the extraneous junk, like yahoo ads, off of the copied text. 

10. You are aware that anyone can google your posts. You will choose to disclose your true identity or not based on this. It is not the moderator's job to erase your old posts.

11. You will talk to your doctor before implementing anything you hear, see on the show or read in the comments section. Out & In Focus, and it’s comment section is not responsible for any decisions you make regarding your health care