DeepThought Forum

Who blogs?  What do you blog about?  Having fun with it?

As I add features and what-not I'll post about it here so you can check it out, and use it if you're interested.

I've added a couple new text fields to user profiles:  About Me, and Works in Progress.  You can look at them on your Forum Profile Page, and change them on the Modify Profile tab.

I'm still trying to pare this registration agreement down to the essentials.  I have more work to do, especially on the latter (still very wordy) parts.

I don't think my agreements belong here.  I haven't decided where I'll put them yet.  The info needs to be easy to find, but not intrusive.

By registering:

You acknowledge that some parts of this forum may contain adult content, and you assert that you are mature enough to either handle that content or avoid it.

You agree not to post hateful, harassing,or illegal material, or material that is invasive of someone's privacy.  Illegal refers to content that is in violation of international or United States Federal law.

You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless you own the copyright or you have written consent from the owner of the copyrighted material (fair use conventions apply).

You agree not to spam or flood.   Chain letters or pyramid schemes, advertisements, and solicitations are also forbidden.  The exception to this rule: established members may hawk their personal creative works in designated areas for that purpose.

You agree that you are solely responsible for what you post.  you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the owners of this forum, any related websites to this forum, its staff, and its subsidiaries. The owners of this forum also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or any other related information collected on this service) in the event of a formal complaint or legal action arising from any situation caused by your use of this forum.

You have the ability, as you register, to choose your username. We advise that you keep the name appropriate. With this user account you are about to register, you agree to never give your password out to another person except an administrator, for your protection and for validity reasons. You also agree to NEVER use another person's account for any reason. We also HIGHLY recommend you use a complex and unique password for your account, to prevent account theft.

After you register and login to this forum, you will be able to fill out a detailed profile. It is your responsibility to present clean and accurate information. Any information the forum owner or staff determines to be inaccurate or vulgar in nature will be removed, with or without prior notice. Appropriate sanctions may be applicable.

Please note that with each post, your IP address is recorded, in the event that you need to be banned from this forum or your ISP contacted. This will only happen in the event of a major violation of this agreement.

A hat.  A Victorian lady's riding hat.  Sort of like this, but red.

I've moved the "board about a board" category to the bottom of the main page list.  It's not that figuring how things should work isn't important.  But, I think we've all been impatient for this to become a place, and there's some pent up artistic conversations that have been waiting to happen!

Done!

I could also send out an email announcement about a pending staff change.

Or have a solid and widely explained policy of deleting private forums of members who haven't logged on for a long time - say, a year.

Or both!

haha I removed 2 or 3 "profanes" in my hasty edit.  I left obscene in for the time being simply because there are legal ramifications if the content is actually stored on this server.  As long as the info stored on this server don't break the hosting company's rules or US law, I have no problems with adult content.  I'd want that kind of content in a guest-invisible forum, though.  Preferably an opt-in forum.

It's precisely because a global moderator or admin will have access to the read-only forums that I'll want member input.  The specific method of input is really the question, and I'm not going to worry about it just yet.

There's really not a lot of difference between a global mod and an admin from a member perspective - it's a matter of coding/config permissions vs moderator permissions.

I thought about making this a throwaway in the random romps thread, but I've also been thinking about starting a "let's kickstart some stories/revise some shit/be writers again" thread.  The time is now.

Let's talk about writing, post funny stuff/kicks in the butt/etc., and see where it takes us.

It's not too much of a stretch to say that this meme was the impetus for my decision to come out more publicly as a writer, and incidentally to launch this website.  It took longer than I expected, :/

This thread is for sharing stuff that makes you want to do your thing, makes you laugh about doing your thing, or gets you through the dark days when you don't think you'll ever do your thing.

http://mcfrye.com

http://mindromp.org

http://google.com

I installed an add-on that puts the favicon for a website in front of the link.  checking to see if it works.  and checking to see if it's too blingy.

The silk theme comes highly recommended for mobile/tablet, so I've installed it, too.

One thing that would be great is if a smilie artist wants to take on replacement of the default smilie set (the first 16 in the reply area).  That's one of the worst smilie sets I've ever seen in terms of visibility, contrast, etc.

I can look for a set to replace them, but something unique to our community would be great!

I made some quick edits to this when I was configuring DT, but I'm sure there's still some silliness in here.

You agree, through your use of this forum, that you will not post any material which is false, defamatory, abusive, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, adult material, or otherwise in violation of any International or United States Federal law. You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless you own the copyright or you have written consent from the owner of the copyrighted material. Spam, flooding, advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are also forbidden on this forum.

Note that it is impossible for the staff or the owners of this forum to confirm the validity of posts. Please remember that we do not actively monitor the posted messages, and as such, are not responsible for the content contained within. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information presented. The posted messages express the views of the author, and not necessarily the views of this forum, its staff, its subsidiaries, or this forum's owner. Anyone who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to notify an administrator or moderator of this forum immediately. The staff and the owner of this forum reserve the right to remove objectionable content, within a reasonable time frame, if they determine that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, please realize that they may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately. This policy applies to member profile information as well.

You remain solely responsible for the content of your posted messages. Furthermore, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the owners of this forum, any related websites to this forum, its staff, and its subsidiaries. The owners of this forum also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or any other related information collected on this service) in the event of a formal complaint or legal action arising from any situation caused by your use of this forum.

You have the ability, as you register, to choose your username. We advise that you keep the name appropriate. With this user account you are about to register, you agree to never give your password out to another person except an administrator, for your protection and for validity reasons. You also agree to NEVER use another person's account for any reason. We also HIGHLY recommend you use a complex and unique password for your account, to prevent account theft.

After you register and login to this forum, you will be able to fill out a detailed profile. It is your responsibility to present clean and accurate information. Any information the forum owner or staff determines to be inaccurate or vulgar in nature will be removed, with or without prior notice. Appropriate sanctions may be applicable.

Please note that with each post, your IP address is recorded, in the event that you need to be banned from this forum or your ISP contacted. This will only happen in the event of a major violation of this agreement.

Also note that the software places a cookie, a text file containing bits of information (such as your username and password), in your browser's cache. This is ONLY used to keep you logged in/out. The software does not collect or send any other form of information to your computer.

What needs to go?

I'd love to get this down to bullet points.

As well as things members agree to by joining, there are some things I know I should agree to as the forum owner, and probably some things I should agree to that I haven't realized yet.

My agreements:

- You own your creative content.  This means that if for some reason I have to ban someone who has posted creative content, I need to give them complete access to it long enough for them to copy it, delete it, etc.

- I won't knowingly give DT access to someone who is under 13 years of age. (maybe this should be higher?  13 is the age cutoff for requiring parental permission by COPPA regulations.)

- I will do my best to make this a harassment free zone.

- I will request member input if and when I think about adding forum staff

- I will honor copyrights, including non-member copyrights.  Fair use, etc is a slippery concept, but if I'm contacted by a non-member about their content posted here, I'll remove it temporarily, talk to the person who posted it, and figure out if it should be restored or permanently removed. 

- if I learn that a member has violated another members' copyright by posting/publishing elsewhere offsite content that was originally posted here , this will be grounds for sanctions up to and including ban.

What would you like me to add?