Terms of Service and Rules
Welcome to Proud Parent.
Although the administrators and moderators of Proud Parent will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this site, it is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages express the views of the author, the owners of Proud Parent will not be held responsible for the content of any message.
General Rules
By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws.
The owners and moderators of Proud Parent reserve the right to view, remove, edit, or move any information on the site, at any time, for any reason. Members may request that their profiles be deleted at any time. Profile information will be deleted, however, posts and threads will remain on the site. When mass deletion of threads & posts is requested, Proud Parent may choose to rename the user and delete their account instead. This will result in a "guest" post that has no profile information and a different username than the original user.
Proud Parent is not responsible for the opinions and statements of our members, admins, mods, staff, or guests.
Moderator Duties
Moderator Responsibilities
Moderator Resources
Moderators are asked to check in with either with an Admin, or to post in the “Back Office” forum when locking, editing, deleting posts. This is in attempt to cut down on the subjectivity of moderating by having more than one person's input when modifying posts.
Moderator words and actions are visible to the entire community, and they are role models. Remember this when conducting yourselves.
Although the administrators and moderators of Proud Parent will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this site, it is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages express the views of the author, the owners of Proud Parent will not be held responsible for the content of any message.
General Rules
- Membership at Proud Parent is restricted to ages 18 and older.
- All content must be in English. Please try to use proper grammar, punctuation, and structure when possible. AIM or text messaging shorthand is NOT allowed.
- While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts.
- Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such. If you would just like to say "Thank You"...use the "Like" button.
- Advertising/spamming is not allowed. This includes using the forum email and private message system to spam other members.
- Affiliate links are not allowed.
- Copyrighted material cannot be posted without consent of the owner.
- Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.
- Each member is allowed one account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
- Each account can only be connected to one person. Sharing accounts is not allowed.
- Whisper campaigns are strictly forbidden.
By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws.
The owners and moderators of Proud Parent reserve the right to view, remove, edit, or move any information on the site, at any time, for any reason. Members may request that their profiles be deleted at any time. Profile information will be deleted, however, posts and threads will remain on the site. When mass deletion of threads & posts is requested, Proud Parent may choose to rename the user and delete their account instead. This will result in a "guest" post that has no profile information and a different username than the original user.
Proud Parent is not responsible for the opinions and statements of our members, admins, mods, staff, or guests.
Proud Parent Moderator Guidelines
Moderator Duties
- Moderating the content in the moderator's forum or group for appropriateness according to the site's registration agreement.
- Moving posts better suited to another forum.
- Editing, locking, or deleting posts with inappropriate content.
- Managing sticky announcements.
- Merging/splitting threads as needed.
Moderator Responsibilities
- Mods will be highly active community members that are well versed in their area/forum.
- Mods will not threaten any forum member with vulgar comments and/or use of mod powers on the forum or elsewhere.
- Mods cannot play favorites towards another forum member.
- Mods cannot harass a forum member.
- If a major problem occurs with another forum member(s), please contact JBS.
Moderator Resources
- Admins are available to help with decisions.
- The “Back Office” forum is available for moderators to post questions about moderating and for support.
Moderators are asked to check in with either with an Admin, or to post in the “Back Office” forum when locking, editing, deleting posts. This is in attempt to cut down on the subjectivity of moderating by having more than one person's input when modifying posts.
Moderator words and actions are visible to the entire community, and they are role models. Remember this when conducting yourselves.
