Information about the discussion forums
Please note that all forums are fully moderated. Posts will not appear until they are
reviewed, so please allow up to a few days for something to appear. Please review our
submission guidelines before posting to a forum.
Submission guidelines
Submissions must be relevant to the content of the website.
Submissions that ask questions that we believe are adequately covered in the FAQ might not be posted. If we feel that our
answer to the question may have been too subtle or difficult to find, we will post and reply (and fix the FAQ). Otherwise,
if the submission is polite and the person submitting it is registered (so we have an email address), we will send a personal
reply pointing the reader to the relevant place in the FAQ.
Submissions that make unsubstantiated assertions that contradict the documented facts that we present in the FAQ will
not be posted unless we feel there is genuine confusion that we can clear up. However, posts that challenge something
we have written based on some fact or argument that we have not preemptively addressed in the FAQ are very welcome.
The best posts we could ever hope to get are ones that force us to add new material to the FAQ or help us discover
an error in our information or reasoning.
Please do not ask for personalized health advice; it is impossible for us to learn
enough about an individual's situation to offer such advice, so you will need to
interpret our general recommendations to fit your own situation.
Posting guidelines
Not all submissions will be posted.
We will not post submissions that just say "this website is wrong" or "this website is great" (though we will be delighted
to receive the latter, we just will not post it), since they do not add to the conversation. We will not post
submissions that are personally abusive of anyone. Substantive challenges to what someone has written (including us)
or criticizing someone for specific claims or actions is always welcome.
Editing guidelines
We expect to leave the content of most posts unedited, though we may choose to not post some submissions at all.
Should we feel the need to edit a post (perhaps because some of it is useful, but some of it is
inappropriately offensive), we will clearly note that we have done so in the text.
We will edit the titles of new threads (subject lines) if we think that some alternative would more clearly describe the
content of the message.
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