Friend,
Non-EO are welcome; in fact, due to a family technicality at this time I am not yet EO myself (I am an Eastern-Rite Catholic). That will hopefully be changing soon, especially since I found an EO parish that my wife likes....
Anyway, free-for-all usually is for posts that are polemical or that are not pertaining to Orthodoxy but which are explosive. Just search the archives and get a feel--but don't worry, as we moderators will move it for you if you put it in the wrong place.
anastasios
Admin.