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| About this board | |
| By: agate Date: January 19, 2014, 2:13 pm | |
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| [I've brought this up from the old board and changed it a | |
| little.] | |
| This can be brief because the one thing I hope everyone keeps in | |
| mind is the saying doctors learn: "First, do no harm." | |
| These are real people here, and they have real feelings. You may | |
| be so eager to get a particular point across that you lose sight | |
| of that. | |
| When you're putting words on the screen for everyone to see, you | |
| have enormous power. Please don't misuse it. | |
| Using racial or ethnic slurs, or name-calling of any kind, is | |
| definitely not acceptable. You'll be asked to change any post | |
| that contains abuse of any minority group--or any group, or | |
| individual. | |
| Quote: | |
| They that have pow'r to hurt and will do none, | |
| That do not do the thing they most do show, | |
| Who, moving others, are themselves as sone, | |
| Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow, | |
| They rightly do inherit heaven's graces | |
| And husband nature's riches from expense; | |
| They are the lords and owners of their faces, | |
| Others but stewards of their excellence. | |
| The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet | |
| Though to itself it only live and die, | |
| But if that flow'r with base infection meet, | |
| The basest weed outbraves his dignity: | |
| For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds, | |
| Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. | |
| --Shakespeare, "Sonnet 94" | |
| "To temptation slow," he says. How about slow to be tempted to | |
| press that Submit button? | |
| --WELCOME to this board, and let's all try to keep this a | |
| friendly place. | |
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| Re: About this board | |
| By: agate Date: January 19, 2014, 2:17 pm | |
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| There was also this, from the old board: | |
| Not another MS message board????? | |
| And why not? | |
| This one has only one moderator/administrator (agate), and there | |
| will be very little moderating here. | |
| No locked threads unless the author of the thread requests that | |
| it be locked. No banning. No deletions without authors' | |
| permission. | |
| No forbidden topics, no forbidden language. It would be nice if | |
| everybody could be civil, but this is the real world. | |
| People with MS have enough problems without the added stress of | |
| belonging to a board where they feel their every word is being | |
| inspected by a moderator ready to pounce. | |
| I don't much care how your posts look or sound. I'd just like my | |
| friends here to enjoy their stay and talk about what's on their | |
| mind, without fear of reprisals, punitive measures or | |
| censorship. | |
| This board is for you, not me. | |
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