Please know that if you choose to transgress the rules you will get one warning, and if you transgress again, a host can ban you from their conference. It is possible to lose your account, and not just be banned from a single conference, if the transgression is serious enough. It is up to the Host to make the determination, and the host has the final word about what goes on in his or her conference.
Communities create norms, which emerge from the group and are enforced informally by members.
Such norms grow over time and are handed down to new users. The few rules we have are meant to encourage the development of norms and nurture the spirit of community. We believe that freedom of expression is important and censoring should be avoided when at all possible. We also recognize that tensions inevitably arise online and from time to time inflammatory topics surface. Keep in mind that it is possible to disagree civilly.