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  • If I'm a JCLer from the Northeast, will I be able to post in a thread in the Midwest Forum?
  • Where should I post comments and questions about the design, layout, and construction of this Forum?
  • Where should I post if I have a constitutional question for the NJCL Parliamentarian?
  • Where should I post a script of the officer's skit from my state convention?
  • Where should I post to introduce myself and my pet guinea fowl?
  • Where should I post about my grandma's scooter and last night’s "The Daily Show"?
  • For the less technologically-impaired, does this Forum support HTML?
  • Someone is making unfriendly and serious threats to me via the Forum. What should I do about this?
  • You Idiot! Don't you take Latin? Obviously the plural of forum is fora, not forums!
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No! How dare you suggest such a thing?

Ok, well, in all honesty, the regional forums are completely and totally open for anyone to post in. NJCL is about bringing people together, regardless of where they're from, so you should never feel like you're limited to your own region. The region divisions were only created to produce some illusion of order, without having to create a forum for all 50 states.

Why, you're just in luck! There's in fact a forum entitled "NJCL.org Discussion" where you can post any questions or comments you might have.

Well, if you have a question for Cain, there's this nifty area labeled "Parliamentarians."

Of course, it may not be the wisest idea to put questions for the President there. There are forums representing each of the NJCL offices, and the NJCL officers will be chained to a computer for hours at a time to ensure that they properly monitor their forum.

Well, in all honesty, it really depends.

If your skit is any good, you may want to post it on the Presidents forum so that Zach sees it, as we'll be in the market for a good skit sometime this spring.

Ok, so I'm just kidding. You can put officers' skits and anything else about your state convention in your regional forum.

Guinea fowl? I must congratulate you on having the guts to say that you have a pet guinea fowl.

But, if you do want to talk about yourself, I would recommend the "Who We Are" section. I even left a note on how exactly you should go about introducing yourself and your pet guinea fowl. As an extra note, though, I'd very much like to see a picture.

Well, unless Jon Stewart goes into something involving Latin, that sounds like perfect fodder for General Discussion.

Nope. HTML is not enabled on this forum, as it is far too easy to use HTML with malicious intent. Most anything reasonable you could want to do with HTML can be done with Forum Code. For those of you familiar with BBCode from phpBB, the two are very similar.

If you think that you honestly and truely can't use the forums properly without HTML, go ahead and send me an e-mail, but you better have a good reason.

Tell [url="mailto:techcoordinator@njcl.org"]me[/url]. Tell [url="mailto:technology@njcl.org"]Mr. O'Neil, NJCL Technology Chair[/url]. Tell your sponsor. Tell any adult.

There is no excuse for threatening someone, and there is no reason that any JCLer should have to put up with it. We will take severe action against anyone who is acting inappropriately here. This could include barring them from returning to the forums, reporting them to the authorities, or anything else we see fit.

Do not try to convince yourself that you can be anonymous here. You can't. If we need to, we can find you. Treat people with respect and kindness, and represent the greatest organization in the world as it deserves to be represented.

First of all, this is Frequently Asked Questions, and your question is not a question, but an exclamation.

Second of all, I consulted Merriam-Webster Online. In their entry on the word forum, forums was listed as the plural, and fora as an alternate (see [url]http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=forum[/url]). As the Forums are currently run in English and not Latin, forums is thus correct.

And you know what? Fora just sounds stupid.