Chat Room Rules & Netiquette: We want this to be a fun and friendly place where you can meet people, have nice conversations, and make friends. In order to keep it that way, we have set up the following RULES and guidelines for this room. Please read and follow them.

1. You must be older than 13 years in order to use the chat service. Be fair, be nice, be honest, be safe, be decent, have fun.
2. DO NOT USE ALL CAPS!
   It means you're yelling, it's hard to read, and it's considered rude.
3. No name calling, racial slurs, or abusive language!
   You may be expelled or banned immediately without warning for this behavior. We may have young chatters in the room, so please keep your language acceptable.
4. Be Respectful: While we do believe in freedom of speech in our chat rooms we also believe in common courtesy and respect of others. If you are caught harassing others or being abusive you will be banned from the chat room. We are all here to have a good time.

Keep that in mind.

Thank You!

Be Safe: While chat rooms allow you to put in some information about yourself for other chat members to see such as description, likes and dislikes, Please never give out your personal information out to anyone on the chat line such as phone number or address. Your personal information is just that Personal!

The rules for posting to the Discussion Boards are quite simple. We ask that you keep your submissions tasteful and considerate of others and that they have relevance to the community. the Moderator reserves the right to delete any post that it deems inappropriate.

Thank you.

Registering
Registration may be required if you plan to post new topics or reply to existing topics (depending on the particular forum you are using). Registration is free, and you are not required to post your real name. You are required to post your actual email address, however.

Changing Your Profile
You may easily change any info stored in your registration profile, using the [ Edit User Info ] link located on the right side near the top of each page. Simply identify yourself by typing your user name and password and all of your profile information will appear on screen. You may change any items, except your user name.

Customizing User Preferences
As a registered bulletin board user, you may store your user name and password in memory for up to one year at a time. This will prevent you from having to type your user name and password every time you post a note.

Cookies
This bulletin board uses cookies to store the following information: the last time you logged in, your user name and password. These cookies are stored on your browser. Cookies are not used to track your movement or perform any function other than to enhance your use of the bulletin board. If your browser does not support cookies, or you have not enabled cookies on your browser, many of these time-saving features will not work properly. Our computer system does not record or retain any chat room communications, instant message communications, or records of with whom you communicate in chat rooms or instant messages.

Editing Your Posts
You may edit or delete your own posts at any time. Just go to the topic where the post to be edited is located and you will see an edit icon on the line that begins posted on... Click on this icon to edit or delete the post. No one else can edit your post, except for the moderator or the bulletin board administrator. Note that if your post was the start of a new topic, deleting your post will result in the removal of the entire topic (all replies after your topic will also be deleted).

Searching For Specific Posts
You may search for specific posts based on a word or words found in the posts, user name, date, and particular forums). Just fill the [ search box ] link at the bottom of most pages.

Censoring Posts
The bulletin board administrators have the power to censor certain words that may be posted. This censoring is not an exact science, however, so certain words may be censored out of context. Please realize that the censoring, if any censoring is being performed, is being done by a computer based on the words that are being screened. Words that are censored are replaced with &*#?)<.

Lost User Name and/or Password
Retrieving your user name and password is simple. All of the pages that require you to identify yourself with your user name and password carry a "lost password" link that you can use to have your user name and password emailed instantly to your email address of record.

Email Notification
If you create a new topic, you have the option of receiving an email notification every time someone posts a reply to your topic. Just check the email notification box on the "New Topic" forum when you create your new topic, if you want to use this feature.

What are archives?
Archives are read-only areas that contain topics that were previously posted to one of our forums. You may not add a reply to a topic that is in an archive. Topics in an archive may have been completely removed from the original forum where they were started, or they may still exist in their forums.

Disclaimer:
Disclaimer regarding slander, profanity and that the views expressed on the pages of Bulletin Boards and Chat Rooms are those of the author, not EatonRapidsMI.Net or Adtek Graphics, Inc.