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Megadodo
10-19-2007, 12:03 PM
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II. Troll Policy:
Creating and posting under usernames to attack or harass community members is expressly prohibited. If a community member posts under an alter-identity for such purposes their regular username may be revealed to the community. Members outed as trolls or new members posting solely as trolls are subject to membership restriction, suspension or banning at the sole discretion of the Administrator for a period of time to be determined by the Administrator. The Administrator reserves the right to poll the members of the community to determine their preferences for appropriate consequences for trolling behavior, and reserves the right to change or make final decisions on disciplinary actions after such a poll.

III. Disciplinary Code
Violation of the rules as set forth in the TOS contract will be handled on a case by case basis. In general, violations will be addressed through a series of graduated disciplinary actions. Breastfeeding.com (BF.com) Administrator reserves the right to invoke and apply any part of the disciplinary code at any point in time. The BF.com administrator shall have sole discretion in interpreting and applying the disciplinary code, but agrees to use their best discretion.

1st Violation = Warning: Member will be publicly (by way of posting on the message board) and privately (through use of Private Message "PM" warned that he or she has violated a community rule.
2nd Violation = Restriction: Member will be warned of the violation and his/her posting rights will be temporarily restricted from posting at the bf.com for a period of time to be determined by the administrator . The member will still be able to access and read the boards.
3rd Violation = Suspension: Member will be temporarily suspended from all participation including reading and writing at the bf.com for a period of time to be determined by the administrator .
Subsequent violations of the TOS are subject to Immediate and Permanent Banning.

IMMEDIATE AND PERMANENT BANNING:
The following actions will result in the immediate and permanent revocation of all posting rights at bf.com . This option will be applied judiciously to only the most extreme cases that involve multiple violations of the TOS / Community Rules and/ or meet any of the following qualifying criteria for immediate banning.

1) Threatening members, moderators or administrators and/ or their families, including , but not limited to physical threats, threats to electronic equipment (i.e. hacking, spamming or otherwise attacking a computer system), and threats made via pm or forum related e-mail.
2) Misuse of other members' personal or identifying information, including but not limited to posting such information on the board or using it to impersonate another member. However, use of personal information in an attempt to obtain assistance for a member and/or his or her family members or to prevent a crime is permitted when that information is used to alert proper authorities.
3) Posting or otherwise using this forum to distribute illegal materials or images.
These Terms of Service are subject to change at any time, without prior notice to the members. Every time you log on to the bf.com , you are deemed to have accepted such changes.

Amendment: June 1, 2006
All opinions of the members of this site, including medical opinions, suggestions, information, and personal knowledge or anecdotes, are the opinions of the members, and do not represent the opinions, advice, or suggestions of this site or its owner.



Breastfeeding.com staff

<small>[ February 03, 2006, 10:40 PM: Message edited by: Hal ]</small>

Megadodo
10-19-2007, 12:04 PM
Friday sex thread.

I would like to address a situation that I believe is on the edge of being out of control.

I know that many of the debate board members enjoy the Friday sex threads and other related threads.

My concern is about the graphic and porno images that are being posted.

This topic is not specifically addressed in the TOS and I am trying to avoid adding new rules that will have to be strictly enforced.

We should probably have rules in place for graphic and porno images but I don’t feel like this has been abused and have dealt with this issue as individual situations have appeared.

I would like for us as a community to be respectful of each other and still have fun in all the different ways you choose.

I am concerned about the new members and the people that just check us out on occasion and the professional people that would be directing moms here for help from our vast knowledge.

I believe we are doing a good job posting warnings on questionable threads. My concern is the new member, lookie lou or professional that does click on a thread only to find it full of graphic and porno images. This is not the image we want to portray. This is a breastfeeding site and I know we all want it portrayed that way. We want to continue to be respected as Breasfeeding moms.

Where do we draw the line? A graphic or pornographic image would be anything that you would not want your own young children to see. I know that this is still really vague, and I don’t want to argue about what porno is, so please just use your common sense.
I reserve the right to make the final decision if there is a problem.

I am requesting that the types of threads discussed above have :
1) Sufficient warning in titles
2) Please do not post graphic images of pornography.
3) If you want to share these sorts of images, post the link and please post a warning.

Thank you for your cooperation. Hal

Megadodo
10-19-2007, 01:05 PM
ADVERTISING ON THE BOARDS
Posted by Hal (Member # 1) on May 19, 2004 10:55 AM May 19, 2004 10:55 AM :

The Breastfeeding.com Bulletin Boards are to be used by you for your personal use only. Commercial uses of these bulletin boards are strictly prohibited unless prior written consent from Breastfeeding.com has been granted. You agree that you will not use Breastfeeding.com for chain letters, junk mail, 'spamming,' solicitations (commercial or non-commercial) or bulk communications of any kind including but not limited to distribution lists to any person who has not given specific permission to be included in such a list.
E-bay is included in this.

Sassafras
11-04-2007, 12:29 PM
There are 4 Words that are on this list.

This is for titles only!

f u c k, c u n t, Cock, Shit, fucker (or any variation)

If you are trying to type in a word like fuck and it comes up **** you are not allowed to use it. It is banned. Do not try to get around it by typing F(*&*&%%K or F *u *c *k etc.

I reserve the right to add words to this list.

I will not ban on first offenses but will not tolerate reoccurrences sense you will get 2warning. I think that is reasonable.

I would still appreciate it if you would respect our objective of no profanity posted in titles. Words of less impact than the ones posted above.

Words that can be used:
but again I ask that you respect our objective to make the first look by potential new members at our social network and message boards pleasing.

crap, fark, damn, hell, screwed, &%&*$#^#^, sucks, piss, sucker, tits, bitch