POLICIES AND GUIDELINES
- Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group
Welcome to Ivory Gardens Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group:
All members of Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group are expected to follow the policies and guidelines listed below. There are no exceptions. This ensures that members clearly understand what is acceptable behavior. Breaking any policy or guidelines listed below will result in administrative action.
When appropriate, posts may be edited or deleted to keep the board safe. When this happens, members will receive a private email from an administrator of Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group explaining any change in posts. If you have concerns about guidelines, send a copy of your post for approval to a moderator or administrator of Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group. If you have questions about guidelines you don't understand, please contact a moderator or administrator to help.
Keep in mind that all members of Ivory Gardens Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group are responsible for inside members' actions.
1. Members must be 16 years or older (birth age) to participate on Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group.
2. If younger members are posting, an adult older than 16 years old must be present, supervise, and accept responsibility for the younger members' actions.
3. Disrespecting, gossiping, bashing, or attacking any member or administrator of Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group will not be tolerated, whether posted, in private mail, or while in chat area.
4. Debates and/or arguments posted, in private mail, or while in chat area are not allowed on Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group.
5. It is Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group policy that members will not discriminate because of race, color, nationality, gender, religious/spiritual preferences, beliefs, ideas, etc.
6. Members will make clear in posts, chat area, and private mail that what they state is their opinion while still validating others' opinions as important and significant.
7. Confidentiality creates an atmosphere of trust. Therefore, members will maintain confidentiality and will not copy, reprint, or repeat in any way what is written on Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group, while in chat, or emails to other members, communities or outside people.
8. Members of this board are not responsible for others' personal safety. Therefore, self-care and enforcing personal boundaries should be a priority. This includes reporting situations or experiences on the board that are not in line with guidelines and policies. Yes, it is the responsibility of all members to keep the board safe.
9. Advertising or recruiting while participating on Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group is not tolerated through posting, private mail, or while in the chat area. Members are responsible also for reporting any incident where they are accessed or solicited by another member. Administrators will confidentially handle any further actions.
10. Threats or discussions pertaining to intentions of self-harm create havoc and members of Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group who have these feelings should not post, but take appropriate safety measures, such as calling a crisis line, therapist, or going to the nearest hospital.
11. Members of Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group who are approached by anyone who threatens to hurt him or herself should report these incidents to moderators or administrators immediately. It is all members' responsibility to keep the board safe.
12. No member will purposefully trigger any other member. Members of Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group Trigger Warnings, as well as a few words to alert other members of the subject matter.
13. Spoilers are not needed when using foul language, as they are built into the system. Please avoid using strong offensive language.
14. In order to maintain a safe community, please do not describe triggering experiences in detail. Explicit information of a triggering nature should be avoided. Since IGDID Support Group is an open discussion, private community, discussing personal experiences of a serious nature is recommended to be done as discretely as possible.
15. Please make sure that your personal avatar and signature are appropriate to the focus of Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group. Do not use any avatars or signatures that may be triggering to folks. Members will remove or change any avatars that staff feels inappropriate to this board. .
16. Member participation is dependent on individual needs and availability. We expect members to stay in touch with us. If we don't hear from you periodically, we will change you access to inactive. After an extended period of time, we will remove your membership. If ever you wish to return, just email the owner of your intentions.
17. Providing false responses to application questions is considered deceitful behavior and leads to immediate banning, as well as such profile being reported to Yuku.
18. Disrespectful behavior toward any staff member of Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group will not be tolerated, resulting in immediate banning of that member. Administrators will not tolerate insults, deception, attacks, threats, and/or denigration from any member on another member or a member of staff, or any other board, at any time. This includes taking an argument about any topic to a personal level. Name calling, repeated critical and sharply negative posts or emails toward any staff or forum member. Flaming, or slanderous posts are not acceptable and grounds for immediate banning.
19. The forum administrators may edit, close or delete any posts which they consider are violations of the above guidelines without notice or explanation. We will not discuss our policies or personal information about other members on this forum. Please take any discussion or questions concerning board management to admins through emails.
20. In order to maintain safety and confidentiality, we reserve the right to restrict access to the community at our discretion.
21. We do not take responsibility for content found through links from resources which we did not approve.
22. About profiles: Members may create multiple profiles. Members may decide whether they want the identity of these profiles revealed to members, however all members using multiple profiles must reveal this information to administrators/owner of Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group. This information will remain confidential to administrators.
23. New or returning member profiles: New and returning members to Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group may use different profiles for personal reasons, but must reveal their identity to admin/owner, deciding for themselves whether they want to reveal their identity to members. All information shared with admin/owner remains confidential. Applying to or participating on Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group under a different profile with the intent to deceive is strictly prohibited.
23. About hugs - please do not offer hugs or other forms of touching in posts. This is not appropriate. Respect others' level of comfort. Hugs can be given only when asked for by the person who started the thread. Any 'hugs' given in posts, or reference to, will be removed.
24.
Trolling:
Unfortunately, every board or group will have the occasional troll. regardless of how carefully the board is monitored by staff and members.
'Trolls':
Try to disrupt, destroy, or change communities in order to fulfill their own personal agendas. They do not present a safety issue to members. When ignored, they become no more than an irritant.
They use techniques such as:
Flooding by excessive posting
Attacking regular members
Attempting to 'divide and conquer'
Threatening members
Spreading rumors
Violating group policies
Posting under many alias'
Emailing members in order to befriend and alienate members/staff from each other.
befriending members in order to gain trust - then, to betray.
Trolls often have serious issues that cause them a need to control others.
Trolls do not hang around boards or communities where members do not respond to their rants, bashes, gossip, and rumors.
Members of this community report all trolling activity. We are a community who works together for the purpose of keeping the integrity and safety of all members.
Trolling is strictly prohibited in this community.
What is written and read on this board is expected to remain on this board. We expect all members to report violations of this rule. Respect and trust is most important to ensure safety and confidentiality.
'Cuing' on this board results in banning without further discussion.
Welcome to Ivory Gardens Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group:
All members of Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group are expected to follow the policies and guidelines listed below. There are no exceptions. This ensures that members clearly understand what is acceptable behavior. Breaking any policy or guidelines listed below will result in administrative action.
When appropriate, posts may be edited or deleted to keep the board safe. When this happens, members will receive a private email from an administrator of Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group explaining any change in posts. If you have concerns about guidelines, send a copy of your post for approval to a moderator or administrator of Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group. If you have questions about guidelines you don't understand, please contact a moderator or administrator to help.
Keep in mind that all members of Ivory Gardens Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group are responsible for inside members' actions.
1. Members must be 16 years or older (birth age) to participate on Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group.
2. If younger members are posting, an adult older than 16 years old must be present, supervise, and accept responsibility for the younger members' actions.
3. Disrespecting, gossiping, bashing, or attacking any member or administrator of Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group will not be tolerated, whether posted, in private mail, or while in chat area.
4. Debates and/or arguments posted, in private mail, or while in chat area are not allowed on Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group.
5. It is Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group policy that members will not discriminate because of race, color, nationality, gender, religious/spiritual preferences, beliefs, ideas, etc.
6. Members will make clear in posts, chat area, and private mail that what they state is their opinion while still validating others' opinions as important and significant.
7. Confidentiality creates an atmosphere of trust. Therefore, members will maintain confidentiality and will not copy, reprint, or repeat in any way what is written on Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group, while in chat, or emails to other members, communities or outside people.
8. Members of this board are not responsible for others' personal safety. Therefore, self-care and enforcing personal boundaries should be a priority. This includes reporting situations or experiences on the board that are not in line with guidelines and policies. Yes, it is the responsibility of all members to keep the board safe.
9. Advertising or recruiting while participating on Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group is not tolerated through posting, private mail, or while in the chat area. Members are responsible also for reporting any incident where they are accessed or solicited by another member. Administrators will confidentially handle any further actions.
10. Threats or discussions pertaining to intentions of self-harm create havoc and members of Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group who have these feelings should not post, but take appropriate safety measures, such as calling a crisis line, therapist, or going to the nearest hospital.
11. Members of Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group who are approached by anyone who threatens to hurt him or herself should report these incidents to moderators or administrators immediately. It is all members' responsibility to keep the board safe.
12. No member will purposefully trigger any other member. Members of Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group Trigger Warnings, as well as a few words to alert other members of the subject matter.
13. Spoilers are not needed when using foul language, as they are built into the system. Please avoid using strong offensive language.
14. In order to maintain a safe community, please do not describe triggering experiences in detail. Explicit information of a triggering nature should be avoided. Since IGDID Support Group is an open discussion, private community, discussing personal experiences of a serious nature is recommended to be done as discretely as possible.
15. Please make sure that your personal avatar and signature are appropriate to the focus of Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group. Do not use any avatars or signatures that may be triggering to folks. Members will remove or change any avatars that staff feels inappropriate to this board. .
16. Member participation is dependent on individual needs and availability. We expect members to stay in touch with us. If we don't hear from you periodically, we will change you access to inactive. After an extended period of time, we will remove your membership. If ever you wish to return, just email the owner of your intentions.
17. Providing false responses to application questions is considered deceitful behavior and leads to immediate banning, as well as such profile being reported to Yuku.
18. Disrespectful behavior toward any staff member of Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group will not be tolerated, resulting in immediate banning of that member. Administrators will not tolerate insults, deception, attacks, threats, and/or denigration from any member on another member or a member of staff, or any other board, at any time. This includes taking an argument about any topic to a personal level. Name calling, repeated critical and sharply negative posts or emails toward any staff or forum member. Flaming, or slanderous posts are not acceptable and grounds for immediate banning.
19. The forum administrators may edit, close or delete any posts which they consider are violations of the above guidelines without notice or explanation. We will not discuss our policies or personal information about other members on this forum. Please take any discussion or questions concerning board management to admins through emails.
20. In order to maintain safety and confidentiality, we reserve the right to restrict access to the community at our discretion.
21. We do not take responsibility for content found through links from resources which we did not approve.
22. About profiles: Members may create multiple profiles. Members may decide whether they want the identity of these profiles revealed to members, however all members using multiple profiles must reveal this information to administrators/owner of Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group. This information will remain confidential to administrators.
23. New or returning member profiles: New and returning members to Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group may use different profiles for personal reasons, but must reveal their identity to admin/owner, deciding for themselves whether they want to reveal their identity to members. All information shared with admin/owner remains confidential. Applying to or participating on Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group under a different profile with the intent to deceive is strictly prohibited.
23. About hugs - please do not offer hugs or other forms of touching in posts. This is not appropriate. Respect others' level of comfort. Hugs can be given only when asked for by the person who started the thread. Any 'hugs' given in posts, or reference to, will be removed.
24.
Trolling:
Unfortunately, every board or group will have the occasional troll. regardless of how carefully the board is monitored by staff and members.
'Trolls':
Try to disrupt, destroy, or change communities in order to fulfill their own personal agendas. They do not present a safety issue to members. When ignored, they become no more than an irritant.
They use techniques such as:
Flooding by excessive posting
Attacking regular members
Attempting to 'divide and conquer'
Threatening members
Spreading rumors
Violating group policies
Posting under many alias'
Emailing members in order to befriend and alienate members/staff from each other.
befriending members in order to gain trust - then, to betray.
Trolls often have serious issues that cause them a need to control others.
Trolls do not hang around boards or communities where members do not respond to their rants, bashes, gossip, and rumors.
Members of this community report all trolling activity. We are a community who works together for the purpose of keeping the integrity and safety of all members.
Trolling is strictly prohibited in this community.
What is written and read on this board is expected to remain on this board. We expect all members to report violations of this rule. Respect and trust is most important to ensure safety and confidentiality.
'Cuing' on this board results in banning without further discussion.
Sincerely,
Owner
Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group
Felicity
Owner
Ivory Garden Dissociative Identity Disorder Support Group
Felicity
