Posting Guidelines and Rules

[flowermama]

Changing this:

14. No letting other people post to the board using your account.

to this:

14. No letting anyone else, including your husband, post to the board with your account or use your account for any reason.

[flowermama]

Re-adding this rule: 16. Should you wish to post photographs of your children to the board, please do so only in non-public forums. (Public forums are those which can be seen by non-members and are labeld "*public*"; all the others are considered "non-public.")

[flowermama]

This

18. No posting items for sale, swap, or free without approval.

is being changed to this:

No posting without approval regarding anything that requires exchange of addresses between members including but not limited to requests for pen pals or to items for sale, swap, or free.

[flowermama]

"From Facebook pages" has been added to number eleven.

11. No posting copyrighted materials to the board -- brief excerpts allowed, except do not post posts from other message boards, from mailing lists, from blogs, or from Facebook pages (see copyright policy below).

[flowermama]

Number 20 was changed from this:

20. Out of respect for other online communities and to stay true to the purpose of GCM, no linking to other message boards or encouraging GCM members to participate in debates or controversial discussions elsewhere online, including blogs.

to this:

20. Out of respect for other online communities and to stay true to the purpose of GCM, no linking to other message boards or encouraging GCM members to participate in debates or controversial discussions elsewhere online, including blogs and social networking sites (such as Facebook).

[flowermama]

Added this:

No posting in support of alcoholism or illegal drug use. We reserve the right to remove posts or close discussions that we feel are questionable or promoting the use of illegal substances or abuse of alcohol.

[flowermama]

The part in bold was added to guideline 23:

23. No posts harshly dissecting parenting moments of others seen or heard about either in real life or online since we desire to humbly cultivate a heart attitude of grace and not judgment towards other mamas. We all struggle at times as parents and have much to learn, and GCM's focus is to provide tools and information for each of us to parent more effectively. Posts voicing some frustration regarding choices made by others can be okay, but it needs to be within the overall context of seeking understanding or ideas for better responses in the future.

[flowermama]

Some misspellings and grammatical errors in the guidelines were corrected tonight.

Also, for clarification purposes, the words "read or" were added to guideline 14:

14. No letting anyone else, including your husband, read or post to the board with your account or use your account for any reason.

Part of guideline 19 was changed. It used to ask that we break certain links and gave an example of how to do that. Now it instead explains how to make a link inactive by using "noparse" tags.

19. No posting live links to sites that violate our statement of parenting beliefs, such as sites that promote CIO or punitive parenting. An easy way to make a link inactive is by putting [noparse][/noparse] tags around the link.
Example: Doing this [noparse]http://www.gentlechristianmothers.com/community[/noparse] gives you this result http://www.gentlechristianmothers.com/community.
Please Note: Posting live links to all other sites (that are appropriate to be linked-to on GCM), including those that violate our statement of faith, is acceptable

(In the guidelines above, the parts in bold were added tonight.)

[flowermama]

Number 26 was added today.

26. Jesus equated lusting in our hearts with adultery and our Statement of Beliefs express the purpose of the board to uphold marriage as a sacred covenant. In that spirit, all posts and threads that go down the path of giving undue attention to men not our husbands (including, but not limited to celebrities) will be removed.

[flowermama]

Thought I'd better note that on the 8th I split the Policy for Posting Copyrighted Materials to the Board and Rules for Signature Lines off into their own threads.

Because of that number eleven had a very slight update.

It did say this:

11. No posting copyrighted materials to the board -- brief excerpts allowed, except do not post posts from other message boards, from mailing lists, from blogs, or from Facebook pages (see copyright policy below).

And now it says this:

11. No posting copyrighted materials to the board—brief excerpts allowed, except do not post posts from other message boards, from mailing lists, from blogs, or from Facebook pages (see our copyright policy).

The changes made were that the word "below" was removed and now the words "copyright policy" link to the new sticky about copyright policy (copyright policy is the same -- the new sticky was made so that the copyright policy would have it's own thread, to shorten the OP and hopefully make it less overwhelming to read).

[flowermama]

Originally Posted by flowermama

On May 29th [2005] I added...

. . .

No copying/pasting any thread or part thereof from our board to anywhere off our board.

Now it's being changed to this:

12. No copying/pasting any thread or part thereof from our board to anywhere off our board. Do not discuss posts or threads off our board with anyone who does not have access to the forum where they are posted. Note: Ideas and concepts learned here may be discussed.

[GCM_Admins]

Twelve was updated to add

(See Expectations of Privacy on GCM.)

Now 12 looks like this:

12. No copying/pasting any thread or part thereof from our board to anywhere off our board. Do not discuss posts or threads off our board with anyone who does not have access to the forum where they are posted. Note: Ideas and concepts learned here may be discussed. (See Expectations of Privacy on GCM.)

[flowermama]

For clarification's sake, the words "off our board" have been removed from guideline 12 because posts or threads should not be discussed anywhere, either off or on, the board with anyone who does not have access to the forum where they are posted:

12. No copying/pasting any thread or part thereof from our board to anywhere off our board. Do not discuss posts or threads off our board with anyone who does not have access to the forum where they are posted. Note: Ideas and concepts learned here may be discussed. (See Expectations of Privacy on GCM.)

Now it says this:

12. No copying/pasting any thread or part thereof from our board to anywhere off our board. Do not discuss posts or threads with anyone who does not have access to the forum where they are posted. Note: Ideas and concepts learned here may be discussed. (See Expectations of Privacy on GCM.)

[flowermama]

Number 19 has been shortened to hopefully make it easier to read.

It has been changed from this:

19. No posting live links to sites that violate our statement of parenting beliefs, such as sites that promote CIO or punitive parenting. An easy way to make a link inactive is by putting [noparse][/noparse] tags around the link.
Example: Doing this [noparse]http://www.gentlechristianmothers.com/community[/noparse] gives you this result http://www.gentlechristianmothers.com/community.
Please Note: Posting live links to all other sites (that are appropriate to be linked-to on GCM), including those that violate our statement of faith, is acceptable.

to this:

19. No posting live links to sites that violate our statement of parenting beliefs. Posting live links to all other sites (that are appropriate to be linked-to on GCM), including those that violate our statement of faith, is acceptable.

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Number 3 has been updated for clarification.

It has been changed from this:

3. No profanity or obscenity (including abbreviations and combinations of asterisks, exclamation points, etc., put together in order to stand for an unnamed profanity or obscenity)—it will be edited out or censored.

to this:

3. No profanity, obscenity, or using abbreviations or typographical symbols to represent either specific or nonspecific swear words. These will be edited out or censored.

[flowermama]

Eight has been updated from this:

8. Start threads in the proper forum. For example, posts about breastfeeding go in the Breastfeeding forum, posts about food prep go in the Cookbook forum, posts about your toddler go in the Little Explorers forum, etc. Which forum is the best fit can be subjective, so do the best you can, and an admin or mod will move it if we feel that it might fit better in another forum.

to this:

8. Do your best to start threads in the forum that best matches the topic of your thread: for example, post about food prep in The Cookbook forum. If a mod or admin feels a different forum would be a better fit, she will move your thread, leaving a redirection topic in the original forum so you can easily find it.