By entering this community center, you pledge to address one another with respect, civility and wholesome speech, even in matters of disagreement. Rudeness or off-color language will not be tolerated. Plain and simple, violators will be kicked off the site, or other measures will be taken. As a rule of thumb, think of this as a site that a teacher of first or second graders could use as a lesson in community civics. Absolutely NO selling will be allowed in the dialogue topics.
Nobody wants to wade through garbage to get to meaty messages.
Advertising is reserved for the Classifieds area. Duplicates of the same message in the discussion topics are not allowed. Pick the most appropriate topic, and put the message there. Back when the community was neighborhoody, and people knew and cared about specific other people and what was happening around town. However, this is unequivocally a private site, which happens to have invited the public.