Support4Hope
Chatroom Rules
Please remember, this site is intended for education and support
and is never meant as a substitute for a professional doctor's
diagnoses nor replacement for any therapy or treatment. Please
read the Chat room rules before entering!
RULES OF CHATROOM
Dear Visitors,
Chats are moderated when possible, and ALL transcripts are reviewed
daily. This chat is our home, when you enter, you are expected
to treat it as such. We have supportive, caring and very kind
guests here. This is a chat, we are volunteers, giving of our
time to make sure everyone's visit is a pleasant one. Do not cop
an attitude if you are not the center of attention, we do not
get paid to give some people the attention they may feel they
deserve. This is just a group of people getting together to discuss
disorders, information, and make friends. If you feel you need
more attention than you are offered, please seek that in your
doctor's office or another area of the net, our moderators, guests,
and administration will not put up with attitude. We are volunteers
and also have problems ourselves, just like you...we are NOT professionals,
nor are we verbal punching bags. When you enter this chat, treat
it as you would someone's home you are visiting. A lot of time
is invested in the safety of our chat, forum, and site by administration.
If you do not appreciate the safety our chat provides, move on,
there are plenty of places on the net, find one that suits you.
Feel free to check out our Chat
FAQ if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Dee
Administrator/CEO
www.support4hope.com
Rules
- Talk of suicide and self harm are NOT discussed in our chat
or forum. Do not enter the chat, go to the homepage to find
a suicide hotline number, or call your local helpline. There
are no professionals here, and if there are, they are not in
our chat in that capacity. We could not possibly give you the
help you require in crisis. These topics should only be discussed
with a professional.
- No sarcasm, insulting, arguing, etc. Our moderators and guests
are not here for that. If you cannot control yourself and your
temper x off the screen and go somewhere else. If you have a
bad attitude, leave it out of the chat, we will not tolerate
it here, you will be banned with no warning.
- No promoting supplements, herbals, vitamins, "miracle
cures" for these disorders etc. This is a chat for support,
let's leave the diagnosis and treatment to doctors who know
the patient's circumstances and get paid to do that. You may
mean well but the consequences could be devastating.
- NO SPAMMING!!!!!! No giving out website URL's to our guests,
we have link exchanges for that. No promoting books, supplements,
chats, whether they are yours or not, NO exceptions.
- Students seeking help with a term paper or assignment are
to contact administration through e-mail with your questions
and we will help you all we can. Keep this out of the chat.
Our guests are there for support. Hammering them for information
or asking them to answer questionaires is not consistent with
a supportive environment and will not be tolerated.
- Typing in capital letters is considered yelling, (Sometimes
referred to as "Caps.") Do not "YELL" at
others. Using "caps" to stress a word or phrase is
acceptable as long as it isn't carried to extremes.
- We welcome all at Support4hope, but we do not permit discussions
concerning race, sexual preference, or nationality or their
issues in our chat or forum. These topics instigate arguments,
and we ban anyone that wants to argue. There are areas for these
topics elsewhere on the net. We, at Support4Hope, feel mental
health and it's many issues have enough stress, controversy,
and stigma hanging over them without having the added stress
of other issues on top of these. After all...this IS a mental
health site.
- Laughter is the best medicine for the blues. Please do not
show anger to someone trying to show a positive attitude. This
room was created with a positive outlook on mental health in
mind, for people that want to enjoy themselves as well as people
who are looking for ways to overcome their problems, not allow
these disorders to become who they are.
- Do not send private messages to anyone without first requesting
permission from them to do so.
- We ask that you do not give out personal information, e-mail
address, phone numbers, home address, postal box addresses and
pictures. If you do so, you do this at your own risk and release
Support4hope from any and all responsibility. NOTICE: People
under 18 years of age are not to give out any information at
all, you will be banned immediately if you are reported for
doing this.
- We do NOT permit "cybering" in our chats. There
will be no "picking up dates," no talking dirty or
sexually suggestive talk to anyone in private or open chat whether
the other person wants to talk that way or not, you will BOTH
be banned immediately. This also includes dragging our visitors
off to another chat or messenger system.
- If you are asked to discontinue a discussion of a mentally
disturbing nature such as rape, molesting, etc, please do so.
These are triggering topics. We are sympathetic to your pain,
but these topics for some, should only be discussed with their
counselors, someone equipped to handle this type of situation
safely.
- God is not a banned topic at Support4Hope. We ask that you
respect our christian and religious visitors and do not insult
or criticize...I know a lot of sites do not allow christianity,
but this site is not one of them. We do not ask you to accept
our beliefs, but we do ask that you respect them. There is no
harm in having faiths and beliefs that help us keep our strengths.
This rule was added to let people know what to expect before
joining our chat.
- Please do not come into the room stating you are a doctor,
psych, or any medical professional of that nature, offering
medical advice. This is not a doctor's office and we do not
have a way of proving your credentials through chat.
- You are responsible for updating your e-mail information
if you change servers, if you have to be notified for any reason
and the letter comes back undeliverable, your nick will immediately
be removed from our database and you will not be able to access
our chat anymore.
- Politics and controversial issues have a place, Support4hope
is not one of those places.
- Please remember our moderators are here for your protection.
Give them the respect they deserve.
- No flooding: This means if you enter repetitive postings,
or monopolizing nonsense. Please do not type in short "chopped"
up postings. These are confusing to keep up with. Type what
you have to say in complete sentences. If not, this is considered
"flooding" as well.
- Please do not come to our chat discussing other sites (good
or bad.) Speaking badly of other sites drags us into something
we do not want to get involved in. If you have had problems
with another site, please keep your problems with them.
- No harassment of our guests. If you are asked not to bother
someone, please cease immediately.
- NO foul language or sexually explicit talk in our chat, you
can express yourself without using foul language or getting
nasty. Using special characters ($#@%) and altered spellings
to get around the profanity manager is unacceptable behavior
and you will be banned for it.
- Do not promote illegal drugs, alcohol, misuse of medication,
or any type of "self" medication methods, as an alternative
to proper diagnosis and treatment at S4H. We like to keep the
atmosphere a very comfortable, supportive, and healthy one for
all who chat here and these topics are not healthy for our young
visitors.
- If you disagree with a decision made by one of our moderators,
do not cause a scene, you will only worsen your chance of telling
your side of the story. All chats are transcripted, simply write
to the Administrator and we can review the transcript. But if
you cause a scene and disrupt the room you will lose the right
to an appeal.
When you click on our chat, it means you have agreed to follow our
rules, once you are in the chat it is too late to dispute them.
If you do not feel you can follow these rules, simply leave the
site, whether you appreciate them or not is none of our concern.
We reserve the right to change the rules according to circumstances
that may occur. These rules apply to our message boards as well
as with the chat rooms. We are trying to keep a family oriented,
secure atmosphere for all to enjoy. According to severity of the
violation, the S4H moderator has the right to judge whether you
will be warned, booted or banned, in most cases the violation will
be as follows:
1. Verbal Warning
2. Booted
3. Banned
If there is no moderator in the chat for you to be given a warning,
it will either be sent in e-mail or you will be banned without
warning. We reserve the right to choose. If you do not appreciate
a safe and family oriented environment then we prefer you move
on to another area of the net. This site was created for people
who appreciate the time and work it takes to keep a warm, safe,
and friendly environment for them.
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