Off-topic, promotional posts 3. Personal Attacks 4. Inappropriate posts 5. Cross posts 1. Trolls are posts that the moderators believe were posted only to provoke members of the group into responding heatedly.
Personal attacks are personal insults against members of the newsgroup.
It is not intended as a source for definitive medical information on weight or a forum for debate on whether weight control is a good idea. Therefore, there are some types of messages that are not appropriate to this forum. Messages advocating weight control via surgery, diet, drugs, exercise, and other methods are not approved. Discussions of the dangers of weight control and methods for same, and discussions of negative experiences with weight control attempts or methods, are allowed. Refutations of scientific evidence presented by such posts are allowed if the refutations are explicitly made in a fat-acceptance context.