Users of this fourm are welcome to use the appBBS network for political discussions. The following forum has been set up to accept only posts by registered users to prevent imping and inhibit posters from pretending to be multiple people.
http://appbbs.com/phorum/list.php?3
The forum contains a "Report this message" feature which enables users to report a message to the moderator(s) which they feel should be edited or deleted. Moreover, the system will automatically remove from view any message reported by a specified number of users, thereby enabling the board to be self-regulated by the users. (We do not moderate or monitor our forum content other than to prevent spamming, denial of service attacks, and obvious illegal activities; e.g., child pornography, etc. If one of the forum community members wishes to moderate a forum, we can set the appropriate permissions.)
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The Southwestern Virginia forum is located at
http://appbbs.com/phorum/list.php?3
Note: The appBBS forums server is quite heavily loaded, and we apologize if you occasionally experience slow page response times during periods of heavy traffic.