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Welcome to Board Rules! We're glad you are here. We need to do some housekeeping and then we will be glad to get to know you in the forums if you decide to participate. Please read the following. These are the rules and guidelines that create the safe place that Bagong Pag-asa Forums strives to be, and which everyone is required to abide by.
By continuing the registration process and obtaining a username and password you are making a clear statement of agreement with the following. Because of this, it will be assumed within the forums that you are in agreement and participating of your own choice.
Note: when choosing a display name (screen name), DO NOT CHOOSE A NAME THAT INDICATES YOUR LAST NAME, OR REVEALS YOUR AIM OR ICQ USERNAME. Doing so will delay the registration process because we will have to write and ask that you come up with a user name that conforms to these guidelines.
BAGONG PAG-ASA BOARD RULES:
1. We are committed to preserving the confidentiality of everyone on the forums. Anyone who comes to Bagong Pag-asa meetings adheres to a confidentiality agreement before they become a part of the ministry. We are committed to confidentiality on the forums as well. Under no circumstances should private email addresses, physical location information, URL addresses or names of web sites where personal e-mail addresses can be obtained, be posted on the board. Forum members are not to contact other members outside the board. **It is essential that there be no contact between board members to keep everyone safe.** Relational brokenness is the reason we are here, so keeping all communication public is an important way of providing protection. This is a strict policy that could lead to probationary time-out or denied access if violated. The reason for this very strict policy is our desire to protect all members.
2. We invite you to be authentic about your emotions and struggles on this board. However, because you assured our gatekeepers of your desire to turn away from Same Sex Attractions and Emotional Dependencies, we expect that you will also be willing to use discretion in how much detail you use when describing the situations surrounding the behavior and thought life that you are attempting to forsake. In other words, don't detail your temptations. This kind of detail can potentially intensify the struggle for your fellow strugglers here. If you have doubts about whether you have created a post that is acceptable in this regard, feel free to email it to one of the moderators for feedback *before* you post.
3. If you find a good website you'd like to share with other members, check with a moderator first via e-mail.
4. If you decide you want to delete a post you have written, you have a 24-hour window in which to do so. After that, only moderators can delete posts.
5. All communication on the board is confidential and may not be copied off and shared with anyone outside of the forums without the permission of the author.
6. You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or by this board.
7. One of the highest forms of respecting others can be shown by the way that their information is treated. Letting other people’s stuff be their stuff gives them the freedom to share what they want to share as well as who they want to share it with. That means that we share only our own stuff. So whether someone has talked about anything from a new nephew in the family, to a tempting area they are battling, the kind and respectful thing to do is to not share their information....even when someone asks how ‘so-in-so’ is doing. So, do not post information about other people in your messages. Let them do it.
GUIDELINES/POLICIES:
1. Try to stay with the topic of the person who initiates a discussion. If you want to change the subject, start a new thread. You may quote or paste from another thread if it will help people understand the background of your new subject.
2. Keep posts divided into easily read paragraphs, especially if they are long. This will help those who are reading to find their way.
3. You may email the moderators with any concerns. Please understand that all email is shared between the moderator and someone in leadership. This is to keep them accountable to each other for the quality and integrity they exhibit in responding to you. Your private emails will not be shared outside of the Bagong Pag-asa forums' moderator group or in occasional situations, with the director of Bagong Pag-asa.
4. On occasion, a moderator may find it wise to edit or even delete a post. You will be notified of the reasons by personal email.
5. Please note that advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are inappropriate on this board.
LEGAL-TYPE AGREEMENTS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
1. You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this board to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually explicit, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law.
2. Bagong Pag-asa reserves the right to reveal your identity (or whatever information we know about you) in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by you.
3. Considering the real-time nature of this bulletin board, it is impossible for us to review messages immediately or confirm the validity of information posted. Please remember that Bagong Pag-asa is not responsible for any messages posted. We do not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message, and are not responsible for the contents of any message. The messages express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily the views of this board or any entity associated with this board. Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact a moderator immediately by email. (The moderators' e-mail addresses are listed in each forum.) We have the ability to remove objectionable messages and we will make every effort to do so, within a reasonable time frame, if we determine that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, so please realize that we may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately.
4. Although this board is not responsible for the content of any of these messages, the moderators reserve the right to delete any message for any or no reason whatsoever. You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless this board, and their agents with respect to any claim based upon transmission of your message(s).
REMINDER: WHEN CHOOSING YOUR DISPLAY NAME (SCREEN NAME), DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR LAST NAME, THE FRONT PART OF YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, YOUR OR AIM OR ICQ USERNAME
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