To ensure our forum maintains an encouraging, intentional atmosphere for all parents and families, please review the following material prior to posting
Notice: These guidelines cover the basic rules and practices of all Other Goose forums. Members are asked to use common sense, decorum and respect for others when participating in the forums.
Moderator Usage & Responsibilities
Other Goose moderators have a responsibility to maintain the integrity of the community forum, to assist new members, and to offer resources/mentorship when needed. In the event it becomes necessary for moderators to intervene on a particular conversation, they will have the ability and authority to close, re-open, move, split, and delete topics, along with editing individual posts within the forum(s) they moderate.
Other Goose moderators will also communicate any policies directly to the users by posting in their forum(s) or via direct e-mail.
Other Goose moderators can and will edit messages if they contain any material (including links to other web sites) which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person’s privacy, political, or otherwise in violation of any law.
In addition, Other Goose moderators can and will delete topics or messages if the message contains any of (but not limited to) the following:
-Any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or you have consent from the owner of the copyrighted material.
-Spam, flooding, chain letters, pyramid schemes, sales or solicitations.
-Defamatory, libelous or slanderous statements against moderators, administrators and its members, or any business, individual or public entity.
-Containing any material (including links to other web sites) which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person’s privacy, or otherwise in violation of ANY law.
Suspension of Posting Privileges
Other Goose administrators can and will suspend the account of a user if the user commits to or is responsible for repeated violations of the stated board rules or forum rules, including (but not limited to) offensive behavior (e.g., posting offensive material, harassing other members, spamming, trolling); repeated attempts to circumvent moderation; direct public challenges to any moderator, administrator or member.