IVN.us is a place for voters to discuss the important political issues facing our nation and neighborhoods. We ask that people speak their minds and observe the same codes of behavior they would in real life. The following guidelines explain what it means to be an active member:

Community Guidelines

You cannot make posts (or create usernames) containing:

• Personal attacks,
• Personal information,
• Racist or discriminatory remarks,
• Threats,
• Libel and defamation,
• Profanity or obscenity,
• Spam.
• Lengthy or off-topic excerpts from other websites. You may, however, post small, on-topic excerpts from other websites and provide links to those websites.

You should know

• The comments are not our opinions,
• We do not take responsibility for any ‘facts’ contained within them,
• If you have a verifiable scoop, the thing to do email us at [email protected], we’ll check it out and write a story if it’s true.

We will not

• Remove your post FOR ANY OTHER REASON than those stated above,
• Ever give away your private and personal information except to cooperate with a criminal investigation,
• Screen the comments in advance,

But we will

• Be ready to review, as soon as possible, any comment you report as abusive and remove it if it does violate the guidelines.
• Shut down comments on a story if they get out of hand,
• Block users who repeatedly violate these basic rules of common decency.