The forum is designed to be like a big family for our users, a place where foreigners living in or interested in Beijing can share ideas and debate in an atmosphere of mutual respect and peace. You may encounter different opinions from you here. Please do not take these differences of opinion personally. If you are going to disagree with someone, please stick to the message rather than the messenger. For example, if someone posts factually incorrect information, it is appropriate to say, "your facts are wrong," but it is not appropriate to say "you are a liar." Do not post personal attacks or engage in name-calling against other members of this discussion board. Do not post hateful, racist, sexist, homophobic, ethnic, or anti-religious (including anti-agnostic and anti-atheistic) bigotry. Unambiguous expressions of bigotry will be deleted, and will often result in the immediate suspension and possible banning of the individual responsible. If you think someone is breaking any of the Rules listed here, please PM administrators or the moderator of that forum with a link to the offending post. The administrators and moderators of the forum attempt to resolve all problems in an amicable way, we nonetheless reserve the right to ban anyone for any reason, and to delete, rename or flounder any post for any reason, and such reason may or may not be indicated to the general community.