Civil Politics

What Is The Civil Politics Category?

The Civil Politics section of CyFair.com is an experimental, private, AI-moderated chat, separate from the main "General Chat" forum, designed to be a space to discuss politics in a civil, respectful, thoughtful way. Access to the Civil Politics section is limited, and not everyone can join. Participants must be prepared to make their arguments on substance, avoid character attacks, and phrase their arguments in a way that is respectful to others. The goal is to have a place where people can discuss politics without the usual vitriol and name calling that often accompanies political discussions on the internet.

Rules For Posting

You are expected to be civil and respectful to other members.
All messages will be run through the AI-bot to check for civility before being posted. Just because the AI-bot approves your post does not necessarily mean that your post is civil. If a moderator sees a post that is uncivil, they may remove it, even if the AI-bot approved it.
Purposely trying to game the AI-bot by posting uncivil messages that pass the filter may get your account banned.
Images: Meme-type images are not allowed in the Civil Politics section. Any other images posted must be uncontroversial, not inflammatory, and not include content that would otherwise be blocked by the AI-bot.
Links: Links must include the article title and the first paragraph or two of the text, so that the AI-bot can check it. Links to inflammatory or uncivil content are not allowed.
Sometimes the AI-bot gets it wrong! AI in its current state is not perfect. Try rewording your argument and resubmitting it if your post is rejected.

Is The AI Bot Biased?

The AI bot is designed to be as neutral as possible. It is not perfect, and it may make mistakes. If you feel that the AI bot is biased, please let us know and we'll see if there's anything we can do to improve it.

For transparency, here are the guidelines sent to the AI-bot to check for civility as of 11/18/2024:

Can you see if this message breaks any of the following forum guidelines?

## FORUM GUIDELINES ##
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- Don't be a jerk.
- No blatant insults, insulting sarcasm, or name calling.
- No vicious character attacks.
- No excessive negativity.
- No sarcastic criticism.
- Do not post any messages many people might interpret as racist, bigoted, homophobic or sexist.
- Do not post any characterization of a group of people made up of predominantly one race or sexuality, as having a list of stereotypical negative characteristics associated with that group, or being worse than another group.
- Insults or criticisms against people of a certain race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, country of origin, is not allowed.
- Jokes or memes that insult or make fun of someone in a sexual way, or make allegations of sexual impropriety, are not allowed unless that person has been convicted in court. Allegations of sexual impropriety can still be discussed in a civil and serious manner.
- Any posts calling for or suggesting violence will be removed. This includes generic calls for the country to go into "civil war," "revolution," or "secession". This rule does not apply to calls for legal use of force by the US government (such as the police or military) to enforce the law or protect the country.
- Advocating for or celebrating the death of another human being, or violence to be done to another person, is not allowed.
- Posts about one race bad or being better/worse than average in some way is not allowed.
- No demeaning, demonizing, belittling or mocking other people.
- No conspiracy theories or conspiracy theory -like allegations.
- Controversial, non-mainstream, "conspiracy", or non-CDC validated info about Covid or vaccinations is not allowed.
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