Guests and Lurkers are always welcome at DeaFreedom! We've opened access to several forums for guests - you can now read many topics, although you must register and log in to reply to these topics.

So, to fully appreciate DeaFreedom, simply REGISTER, and LOG IN!

You'll be glad you did!

P.S. - before you register, you'll want to read over our RULES!

This morning I deleted 75 accounts, and set 24 to 'inactive'.

This had nothing to do with how I feel about any of these folks, I had an arbitrary screening process.

Anyone who:

Had not visited the site in over a year

~and~

had fewer than 10 posts

~or~

had more than one ID


was deleted.

Anyone who had multiple ID's had all but the most current removed.

Anyone who only had one account and had it removed is more than welcome to re-apply for membership.

This is simply to keep the 'deadwood' to a minimum!

I will continue to do this on the first of every month.

DeaFreedom has a strict policy of complying with US and Federal copywrite laws.

If you post information on DF which you did not write yourself, you MUST supply the name of the author and a link to the original website or printed source.

Failure to comply with this rule will result in IMMEDIATE POST REMOVAL.

Likewise - if you copy information from DeaFreedom to another site, you MUST supply the name of the original poster as well as a link to the page the quote is from.

FOR THE RECORD:
I'm not opposed to reprinting information from DeaFreedom in other forums; in fact, I encourage it. I only insist that you give credit to the author for writing it, and DF for providing a place for it to be posted.

Failure to comply with this will result in LEGAL ACTION.

Bear in mind, this is not only my rule, IT'S THE LAW.

As y'all know, I intentionally make it difficult for y'all to edit posts, to prevent a problem I've seen in other forums - that being when someone makes a silly remark, they just delete it and pretend it never happened.

The exchange for this, on my part, is that I need to edit posts for y'all from time to time.

To that end, I have a few pointers and requests.

First, there is a 'preview post' option - USE IT. You can look over your posts, and make sure they're right before actually posting.

Second, you have five minutes after posting to edit your posts - USE IT. You can look over your posts, and make sure they're right, so long as you do it within five minutes.

Third, the 'resource ID' for each post is different each time you load a page. It cannot be used by myself to identify the post you need edited. The best way to send me directly to the 'offending' post is found at the top of each post. There is a link showing the date and time of the post - clicking this will open a box containing the link directly to that post. Copy and paste that to your message to me, and I will know exactly which post to edit.

Once a post has been replied to by another Member, I will not edit it. This would do away with the reason I limit post edits. If this happens, just post again, and say what your mistake was.

Also, from now on, I will not edit a post, unless you request it in a PM. This is a matter of security - we have a few dozen regular posters, and I cannot keep up with your personal email addresses. Therefore, there is little to prevent 'Member X' from obtaining an email address 'Member Y@hotmail.com' and asking me to edit 'Member Y's' post.

None of this is something that has made me mad, or caused any real problem, but it will make my life MUCH easier!

From time to time, I send out PM's.

Sometimes, this is for personal communication, sometimes to pass on a friendly warning.

I always pint out the reason for a PM in the topic line.

So, if you see a PM from me that includes language indicating that it's a warning, READ IT.

FROM THIS POINT FORWARD:

If I see that you have chosen not to read a warning I have sent you via PM, I will still hold you responsible for it's contents.

If you persist in ignoring the warnings I send via PM, I will send official warnings, which can reult in being suspended or banned.

In short - you don't have to listen to my opinions, but you do have to listen when I warn you about your posts.

Look guys -

There's a reason I've spent hours typing the infinite variations of every swear word known to man, in no less than two languages into the wordbot. Actually, there's at least two.

First, we have members who are kids. Some of those kids are related to me, and/or live in my area. The last thing I need is somebody calling me on the phone because their kid saw a 'dirty word' on my forum.

Second, it's been brought to my attention that several deaf schools have placed DF on their 'no-access' lists for students. When the day comes that I have the time to fight this violation of deaf kids rights, I don't want their to be any real reason to justify being blacklisted.

THEREFORE:

From this date forward, if I catch you skirting the wordbot by sticking a period in a word, or spaces, or any asenine tactic that still leaves foul language in my forum, I will slap the <expletive deleted by wordbot> out of you!

Well, since I can't actually do that, I'll lock you out of the forum for a day for the first offense, and permanently for the second.

PLEASE show some respect for our 'junior' members, as well as for the time I put into this board to make it an enjoyable place for us all!

Or Else.