It is the intention of InFrequently Asked Questions to provide news, analysis, and opinion to the public that supports individual liberty, peace and individual responsibility.  In order to maximize our effectiveness in that pursuit, we need to communicate well to a lot of different types of people, including those who may not already agree with us.  We need to be perceived as honest brokers of information, by in fact being honest brokers of information.  We also need to grab attention in the vast ocean that is the internet.  Here are a few guidelines for posting articles, so that yours will be more likely to be read, and linked to.Important note:  The items with asterisks are essentially requirements.  If we find that these have not been met, we will very likely consider unpublishing your article and asking you to clean up or rewrite.

1. *Check your facts.  No matter how badly you want it to be true, if you can't back it up, please don't publish it here.
2. *Check your sources.  Even though Hitler or Stalin would have been correct in claiming that the grass is green and the sky is blue, it would raise eyebrows if you were to cite one of them as your source for that information.
3. *Check them twice.  Need I say more?
4. *Cite them.  Once again, it speaks for itself.
5. Quote them.  Pull a quote from each source you cite, if you can find one that fits.
6. Occam's Razor.  Familiarize yourself with it.
7. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you
   are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one
   of them is wrong.  I did not come up with this on my own, it's a quote from Ayn Rand.  And it applies often when writing about controversial subjects.
8. Tag it.  We need a working taxonomy for categorizing our content, so that we can build a navigation structure for the visitors.  The topics, tags, and locations you add to your posts will help us do that.
9. Don't be ugly.  We need civility 'round these parts.
10. Don't go down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole.  This mostly fits under the category of Occam's Razor, but just to be as clear as possible:  No sane person will read your 9/11 theories about thermite,  airplane holograms, or lasers from outer space.  No one.  The Bildeberg group and Agenda 21 both actually exist, but you will never ever persuade a single person with those discussions either.  And we will not even tolerate any serious talk of shape-shifting lizard Jews.

***This one stands on it's own.  Racism, bigotry, homophobia, anti-semitism, anti-islamism, misogony and misandry, or any other sort of invective toward any collective identity will not be tolerated here.  You will be banned.  You know what this means.  How we define this is completely subjective, and up to the discretion of the moderators, publishers and editors of InFrequently Asked Questions.  We will not debate you on the definitions of these terms, we will, without warning: BAN.  YOUR.  SORRY.ASS.Clear on that, I hope?  If you feel we have been unfair in administering this policy, please, please, please, post your story about it, elsewhere.  And link back to us, and spell the name correctly.Also, a few words on how to use the site to post your content.

• Articles are for news and analysis. 
• Blog posts are for your opinion.
• In order to add embedded content like YouTube Videos, or photos from Flickr, click the "Disable rich-text" link underneath the Body section of the editor.  After you paste the embed code, you can turn the rich text editor back on, to continue adding text.
• Categorize your content with Topics and tags.
• Topics are for broader subjects, such as "elections", or "election 2012"
• Tags are for specific stories, such as "Ron Paul 2012"
• Contributors who will be designated to do so will later help to develop a taxonomy called sections to categorize the topics into an even broader, top level taxonomy, such as "News", "Politics", "Entertainment", and so on.  But first, we will need topics, with active content, to categorize.
• If you want to post a link to a single article on another website, with very little commentary, just post it as a link.  This will add a post, with a title that the visitor can click to reach the article.  If you have links to multiple pieces that come together to tell a larger, or more complete narrative, you will probably be better off composing an article or blog post, and adding those links inline.

More of these will be added soon.