How We Talk Here
The Coffeehouse Rules
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Grounded in K’é — the rules relatives keep when they talk about hard things.
1. Speak to relatives, as relatives.
Disagree with ideas; never attack people, families, or clans.
2. Bring what you know — and say how you know it.
Firsthand? Heard secondhand? A document? Saying which is half the gift. Jini stays at the door.
3. Hard questions, yes. Accusations, no.
“Who is responsible, and where are the records?” builds. “They’re crooks” doesn’t.
4. During election season, no campaigning here.
Facts about candidates belong; cheering or attacking them doesn’t. The covenant holds for visitors too.
5. Corrections are honored.
Being wrong and fixing it is how this whole site works — and that goes for us most of all.
6. A person reads everything before anything publishes.
Submissions that break these rules simply won’t post — no shaming, no callouts; they just don’t enter the record.