These are the guidelines for participation in DanceFriend.com. Please respect these guidelines, and each other.
- Be civil and supportive
- No abusive attitudes, be nice to each other
- Make no threats
- Never encourage harming oneself or others
- Show respect for race, ethnicity, gender and nationality
- Never use rude, racist or otherwise abusive language
- Post neither pornography nor nauseating images
Admin's opinion on what breaks these guidlines is final.
Before posting your question, search the forum
Your question or comment may have been discussed, answered, or resolved previously.
Find the forum which best fits your topic:
By placing your topic in the most appropriate forum you are showing your respect for the community and you will receive respectful responses.
Stay on topic:
These can be very busy forums, so please pay attention to the subject matter of your posts, and check that it still relates to the topic and forum to which you are posting.
Help others:
DanceFriend.com is a community, and works best when people share information.
Report inappropriate posts:
DanceFriend.com prides itself on being a fun, friendly, and supportive forum. Tell the Admin using the links provided if you see any content that breaks DanceFriend.com's guidelines.
Identify your subject matter:
Not everyone has time to read every forum posting. To ensure that your message reaches the right people quickly, identify your subject matter clearly in the subject line. Subjects like "question" and "major problem" will not get you the response you desire.
Welcome newcomers:
Do not chastise them for not reading the forum etiquette. Make them feel welcome in the community.
If you don't have anything to say, don't say it
If a person posts hundreds of posts just saying "LOL", or a few smilies, nobody is going to take that person seriously. For the people that use DanceFriend.com, respect comes from post content
If you don't know the answer:
If someone asks a question to which you don't know the answer don't respond by saying, "I don't know." It's better either not to respond or, better still, post the membername of someone who might be able to help.
Check your facts:
If you're not certain what you're about to post, check the facts. No one will listen to you if you keep getting things wrong!
Confused by a poorly written post?:
Ask for clarification, don't mock the author. Post authors vary in age from 13 to 20+ years old, thus levels of education differ significantly. Don't discriminate against someone younger than you. DanceFriend.com is not here to make people feel good about themselves by putting others beneath them.
If you feel that your account, post, or other content was moderated in error, it is important to submit a post to the Admin.
You Can Actively Improve Our Community How you can make a difference when encountering unsupportive or rude members:
- Tell him or her that their behavior is not accepted in the DanceFriend.com community
- Report the author for misconduct using the links provided
- Message a moderator
What to do when encountering spam:
- Don't reply to it (it takes moderators longer to remove it if you reply)
- Report the post for misconduct using the links provided
DanceFriend.com Policy Overview
DanceFriend.com takes all possible steps towards protecting people from harm, emotional or otherwise. The guidelines above act as a framework for DanceFriend.com's moderators to operate from, but our moderators retain the right to act in their best judgment, even if their actions do not fall neatly within the scope of the guidelines.
- Moderators shall endeavor to create a positive and fun community
- Moderators shall not demean, harass, or threaten other members
- Moderators shall take the questions and problems of members seriously
- Moderators shall strive to be impartial and fair Consistent Moderation
- Members denied service are not welcome to return under a new membername
- Content guidelines are to be applied equally to every forum
- Discourage the notion that a member can get away with what they please so long as they are well liked by a moderator and treat everyone qually.
Duties of DanceFriend.com Moderators:
A moderator acts as a filter, firefighter, facilitator, administrator, editor, promoter, expert, helper, participant, and an advocate depending on the time, subject, and situation.
Key activities:
- Answer questions
- Keep conversations fresh and interesting
- Greet newcomers
- Keep forums and content organized
- Review misconduct reports
- Review member generated requests
- Suggest and vote to deny unruly members service
- Protect forums from spamming, trolls, and advertising
- Support DanceFriend.com's acceptable content policies
- Serve as examples by being outstanding community members
We're always looking for people who enjoy interacting with others online and who are passionate about topics that interest them. If this sounds like you, get involved by messaging the Admin
Duties of DanceFriend.com Administrator Admin
- Ensure that DanceFriend.com has an active connection to the internet
- Write new features
- Ensure the software is functioning correctly
- Promote and demote moderators
Content You Post on DanceFriend.com:
Remember that DanceFriend.com is a free online community open to the public, and other people will have access to your content and could copy, modify or distribute it. When you post content on DanceFriend.com, you are giving DanceFriend.com the right to use that content. We might remove it, edit it, or use it for our advertising. What this means is that DanceFriend.com is not required to remove something you posted, that reply is not your personal property, you have given it to the community and it is has become an integral part of the whole.
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