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Overview Mamasaurus.net (MMS) is a little place for moms to get together, connect, share stories, and get valuable advice from other moms. While the administrators and moderators of this forum will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every message. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made in these forums express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators, moderators and Super Moderators (except for posts by these people) and hence will not be held liable. Registration Agreement You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, or any other material that may violate any applicable laws. You agree that the webmaster, administrators, moderators and Super Moderators of this forum have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should they see fit. Any information you post is at your discretion (as long as it does not violate any part of this agreement) and is not the responsibility of the administrative staff should you leave the website by choice or otherwise. Any image or idea sent for a Mamasaurus.net feature (such as the slide show or a banner) implies that Mamasaurus.net has your complete consent to use the photo for said feature. Images can be removed by request, as we are able, but never by demand. Bashing of another member is strictly prohibited and will not be tolerated. If it is found that a thread you posted is indeed about another member (even though they are not named) you will receive a 5 point infraction and be banned for one week. If we feel it is about another member we will take the action needed whether you agree its about another member or not. This includes (but is not limited to) bashing MMS in general. You may not make a post complaining about how MSS is run or what other members do or do not do. If you have a problem please come to an administrator and we will take the appropriate action needed. For example you may not make posts complaining that no one responds to your posts (or anything along the lines of making a post complaining about the happenings on MMS). All this does is cause drama and we try to make this site as drama free as possible. MSS is a support group and not a popularity contest. If you do make a post complaining on the happenings of MMS you will first receive a warning and then a 3 point infraction. Please keep what happened on different boards/web sites and any personal problems off of Mamasaurus.net. This means you may not discuss problems you are having with another member on the MMS boards PERIOD. It doesn't matter if you didn't bashed them or didn't put any names in it, if the MSS team finds out it is about another member you will receive a 5 point infraction and be banned for one week. We don’t think personal matters between you and another member should be posted for the world to see. We do not expect everyone to get along, but we do expect everyone to act maturely about it. If you have a problem with another member on the board do not announce it in the forums. Please take it to the admin or directly to the person through PMs. Once a thread has been locked you may not create a new topic with the same subject. You may make a thread apologizing if you see fit. If your post starts problems it will be locked and creating another thread will not be permitted. The only exception to this rule is the Roll Call forum. Once a thread reaches 50 pages, we will lock the thread, due to the TOS violations. It's easier for us to view 50 pages instead of 500 pages. If you have any questions on what may or may not be posted after something is locked please come to the MMS team for help. When making a post it is OK to type "sorry if this offends anyone" it is not OK to elaborate into saying you "don't care if it offends anyone" or "that its too bad." (anything along those lines) This is considered rude and makes others feel unwelcome to post. You will receive a warning and then a 3 point infraction for this. Please try and be courteous to others and keep drama filled posts off the board. If you decide to leave MMS we will place your name in the "Deleted" user group. This takes your name off the membership list, marks your PM box as full so no one can PM you and under your user name it will say "Deleted". We do this so if you decide to come back you will not have to register and you will not loose your post count among other things. You will not have access to the forums once you are placed in this group. If you would like to be deleted you can either PM an administrator or make a goodbye post. Once an admin sees your post we will place you in the "deleted" user group. If you should decide that you would like to return to MMS you are more then welcome to do so. Please email Amanda@Mamasaurus.net and upon receiving your email you will regain full access to the site. If your goodbye post violates any part of this agreement your name will be placed on ban and you will no longer be welcome here at MMS. Please keep the drama off MMS. It is not OK to have more then one name on MMS unless it has to do with one of our group activities. Pretending to be two different people is unnecessary and you will be placed on a permanent ban. Lying to members on MMS will not be tolerated. If it is found out that you are in fact lying you will be placed on permanent ban. When the MMS team feels a person is lying we go through an extensive investigation. Once our investigation is done and we feel you have been lying we have the right to place you on ban until you can prove otherwise. If no substantial proof is provided your name will remain on ban. If you can provide us with solid proof that you were truthful we will unban you. If you feel a person is lying please come to the administrative team (or one of our super moderators) and we will look into your concerns and go from there. Please note that posting your "proof" or questioning a member in a public forum will not be tolerated. All this does is cause more work for the administrative team and cause unneeded drama. Doing so will result in a 3 point infraction. Please understand that the MMS team does not just point fingers and assume a person is lying. Therefore it may take time to figure out the situation. Please be patient. If an admin is unavailable please go to a Moderator. They have been instructed on what to do in these situations. Once a member is banned they no longer have access to MMS. Because of this we will not allow any personal information about banned members to be posted (updates for example). Doing so will first result in a warning, followed by a 2 point infraction. If a member has been banned it was for a reason. They are not welcome on MMS. Allowing a banned member to have access to your account will result in your name being placed on banned. You too will no longer be welcome here. If you don’t have anything nice to say then please say nothing at all! Signatures In Order to maintain our bandwidth you are only allowed a 20 line signature limit. If you go over your limit you will be asked to fix your signature. We are not siggy Nazi's measuring every siggy but if its noticeably too big we will ask you to change it. You are given 2 days to do so. After the two days if you have not fixed your signature we will remove your whole signature and you will receive a warning. This also goes for anything we ask you to remove from your signature. Advertising You may advertise links to other messages boards as long as you advertise Mamasaurus.net at the other board. For example if you put a link in your signature linking to another board, then you must put the MMS link in your signature on the other board. Our only exception is Mom forums. We find it rude to advertise another mom related forum. We worked hard for our members and you should do the same. You wouldn't advertise K Mart at Wal-Mart. The same thing applies here. You are limited to one advertisement link in your signature. When you make a post about another support group you must make the same post on that support group about Mamasaurus.net. Under no circumstances should you Spam others PM boxes about other groups. You will be banned. We have a Bulletin Board forum, Please keep things you are selling in that forum. If you post a thread selling something anywhere on the boards, it will be deleted. Your first offense will consist of a warning. Anything after that will result in a 1 point infraction. If you are not a contributing member you may not "Spam" our boards. Mature Language We have an option word censor set up. If you do not wish to see curse words please choose this option. Inactive members Members remaining inactive for more then 30 days will be deleted. If you have registered on Mamasaurus.net, but have not posted within 2 weeks, your account will be deleted. If your account was deleted due to in activeness you may re-register at a date more convenient to you. Please PM Ashley if you are going to be away longer and 30 days and wish to remain active as she handles the deleting of inactive members. Disciplinary actions: Mamasaurus.net uses a infraction system. This system is used as a disciplinary procedure. If you fail to follow the Terms of Service you will receive points (infractions) stacked against you. If at anytime your infraction level reaches 5 points you will be placed on a temporary ban. If your infraction level hits 10 points, you will no longer be welcome at Mamasaurus.net. You will get a PM when you get a warning/infraction. In the PM you will be informed on how many points you have accumulated with said infraction. The PM may tell you that this is just a warning. Warnings do not have points. After one year, your infractions/warnings do expire, but the admin team will still have access to view them. They will only be held against you if you keep receiving infractions for the same thing. Insulting another member will result in a 5 point infraction. If you get two of these infractions your account will be placed on a permanent ban. The first time you will be placed on a temporary ban lasting a week. Advertisement: Placing advertisements on the boards instead of in our Bulletin Board forum will result in a waning, followed by a 1 point infraction if the problem continues. If you continue to Spam our boards then your post will need to be approved by an admin before they are posted. There are other reasons (outlined above) why a warning/infraction may be given. The infraction points has been stated above as well. Also once a warning/infraction or a banned is placed if you start drama because of our decisions you will receive a 5 point infraction and will be banned for a week. If you have a problem with how things are run please come to one of the administrators and discuss it with us. We have the right to give an infraction in place of an warning as we see fit. We also have the right to give an infraction in place of a warning. Though a warning/infraction is given, the administrators can still reverse it, so if you think the warning/infraction you received was unjust, please notify us and we will discuss your warning/infraction. If it is decided your warning/infraction was given for a good reason we will not reverse it at any time. Each incident will be examined on a case-to-case basis. We have the right to skip the infraction process and place you on ban as we feel its needed. :NOTE: Everything on MMS is Copyrighted. If it is found that you are using our images, Rules, ect. without our permission you will be banned from MMS and our lawyers will be contacted. If you submit anything to MMS it becomes property of MMS and also copyrighted. We may change any image sent in as we see fit. When submitting images to MMS you are giving us the right to use and modify it as we please. Please note that we do not get paid to keep these forums in order. Therefore we will not tolerate your rudeness. We have implemented these rules to keep MMS as drama free as possible. If you don't like the way we run MMS no one is forcing you to stay. By registering at Mamasaurus.net, you agree to the terms and conditions outlined above. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not resister with Mamasaurus.net. If you are already a member and do not agree to these terms, Please PM an admin and we will delete your account. We reserve the right to change, modify, add or remove portions of these terms at any time. If we do decide to alter the Terms of service we will make a post in the Attention Mamasauruses forum.. If you have any questions please feel free to email us at Amanda@Mamasaurus.net and Happy posting! ~Amanda, Ashley & Brittany