Fruitarians.net Aims and Rules

Aims

1. To create a truthful and versatile informational source about fruitarianism.
2. To inspire people to eat enough of fresh fruit with solid reasons.
3. To connect like-minded people and to combine their experiences.

Description

The subject of this site is fruitarianism - a quest for optimal food, presumably fruit, and for the best ethical and maintainable way to live on this planet. It is independent from any ideology or religion. It is also opposed to breatharianism - dangerous rejection of  nutrition.

The main thing that unite fruitarians of all kinds is that they consider various fresh ripe edible fruits to be such a good food, that they make them to a main element of their diet, usually 75% and up. Normally they complement fruits by seeds, but there are many ways to be a fruitarian.

We want to gather all fruitarians in one place. If you are a fruitarian, please, represent yourself here (it would take only few minutes). We also invite non-fruitarian folks (especially scientists, doctors, biologist and philosophers) who have something significant to say, or to support the site.

Fruitarians.net is an open independent platform: most information is freely reachable for all internet users without any need for registration. There is no hidden agenda behind the project, and it is privately funded by a fruitarian.

Here everybody can make a statement about fruitarianism, backed up with personal experience, observations and scientific proof. This place is for people who are interested in fruitarianism and who finds the subject important enough to express their original or thoughtfully adapted ideas and concepts in a courteous manner, and in a nicely organized environment.

• Visitors can read, rate and assign points to comments, and discuss the content in some cases.
• Members additionally can build a specialized profile with a dedicated URL (fruitarians.net/nick), publish articles, add links and images, and communicate with each other privately. Greet and fave other members, welcome new people, add friends. Add images to favorites.

We make no difference between people of various backgrounds, genders, ethnicity, income, body shapes and looks, age, philosophical positions, religious believes, sexual behaviors, origin, nationality, etc. Important are your friendliness and your bright mind.

Guidelines

General

1. Be truthful and polite.
   Provide proof for your statements: only your own experience and scientific data.
   
2. Avoid promotion of goods and services inconsistent with values of fruitarianism.
   If you advise a book, please give a link to it's electronic edition or to the site where it could be acquired used or printed on recycled or non-wooden paper.
3. Intimidation and imagery of violence are prohibited. Unattractive photos are not allowed either :)

Specific Rules for Members

Profiles' Data

1. Profiles are only for real people - one for each individual.
2. Please, use your photographic portrait as avatar.
3. Images on your profile - pictures and videos - must represent you personally (please, provide only best photos, maximum: 4 at a time), or illustrate the fruitarian aspect of your life.
4. All added items should be properly named, described and tagged in albums.
5. Links you add should be relevant to fruitarianism or your own (sites, blogs, profiles).
6. Please, use private messaging system with courtesy.
   Messages can be deleted from the site after 12 month - save all you need separately.
7. Your profile must contain enough data to be informative for visitors, otherwise it will be deleted.

Publications (Forum)

Our forum is not usual - it is a tool for publishing, with enough functionality for additions and debate.

Forum Rules

1. Share the citation with a link (source).
2. Please, do not republish complete articles if you are not the author - quote and review!
3. Try to be understandable for most people (check spelling, avoid slang) and highlight the key words and main ideas for easier reviewing / scanning of the text by readers.
   We have a quite advanced rich text editor for structuring the information (6-level headings, lists), you can apply most of it's functions by highlighting a part of text with a mouse pointer.

Email Notifications

We don't like to bother our members and subscribers with many emails. Everybody can choose what profiles, forum topics and other content elements to subscribe to. Please, subscribe to everything you want to get notification-email for, including your own profile and items, if you are a member and want email notifications (if not, simply follow the thread of activity related to their profiles in member area.).

The button or subscription link is normally in the top right corner of the page - it is fast, no page reloading. To subscribe to updates of a publication on your email hit ♥ Subscription on the top of the topic's page, on the right to its title. Click again to unsubscribe.

Administration

We all must follow the rules, the webmaster may enforce it in some cases by changing or deleting the content or by asking a member to alter it, and if something goes very wrong - by reducing available functionality for the profile.

The administrator has not enough time to explain why something was changed. It could be even made by mistake. Please, do not confuse the readers and subscribers by messy content, don't waste their time. We care about quality of information.

Most of us have only limited time to spend on such activities as site building and communication, but let us try to gather information on all aspects and versions of fruitarianism little by little. Thank you for your kind support that you demonstrate just by registering here.