As a member of the Napoleon Series History Forum you have privileges. As long as you remain in good standing by not violating our rules your privileges include the following:

1. You have right to post a message on any topic relating to the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Your message must be in good taste and if controversial it must be supported by documentation or evidence.

2. You have the right to respond to any message. You may challenge or support any information another person has put out there. If you challenge the information in a message you must show where the information is wrong and support your challenge with other data.

3. You have the right to post a message without being attacked, ridicule, or insulted for what you have said.

4. As importantly, you have the right to ignore any message someone else has posted.

As a member in good standing, you do not have the following rights:

1. You may not insult, ridicule, or attack any person for what they have posted. You may show that their information is wrong, but it must be in a polite manner. Attack the information without attacking the poster.

2. You have no right to challenge someone without providing evidence where the person's information is wrong. The burden of proof is on you.

3. You have no right to a response to your message. (If you do not like what someone has said, the quickest way to get someone to shut up is to ignore him.)

4. You have no right to violate copyright laws in your message. You may quote short passages from a book or other material that is still protected by copyright, but you may not quote extensively.

5. You may not post a link to a website that violates copyright. For example there are websites that have placed illegal copies of books on their site. You may not post a link to that site.

6. You have no right to ignore any administrative messages posted by the Forum Administrator.

Robert Burnham
Editor
The Napoleon Series