[The Barrow-Wight]

Signatures are a wonderful way to personalize your posts with a remark, quote, or saying that truly represents you or your current state of mind. I've always enjoyed the way our members express themselves with their signatures, but we have a few long-standing guidelines that I feel now need to be enforced.

Starting now (or very soon), signatures with political or religious statements or sentiments will incur the negative attention of myself. Those statements that I deem to belong to either category will result in a PM from me or my ever-vigilant moderators requesting, no, requiring, that the offending remarks be removed.

Political and religious opinions are freely discussed on almost every Tolkien forum out there, but not this one. We stick to Middle-earth. So, change your sigs now or I will be calling.

This is not an effort to censure opinions. It is a strategy to diffuse the situations that such potentially inflammatory remarks may create. No one comes to the Downs to talk about their deity or choice for political office, so I see no reason for us to share our opinions on those subjects here.

Thanks for your support.