[BrandyHagz]

Adoption Forums is a support forum, a community where members can communicate with other members who have had or may have like experiences. It’s a place where people with similar interest in adoption can come and congregate and talk about adoption.

What Adoption Forums isn’t is a match making forum, its also not a fund raising forum. If you are here in hopes of matching with an expectant parent or hopeful adoptive parents, then I need to direct you to ParentProfiles.com. If your fundraising for your adoption or anyone else’s adoption, then you can put the URL on your profile (as has been explained time and time again) but you can not put URL’s that have fundraising or links to fundraising on them anywhere else on the forums.

Folks, these same rules have been in place and have been enforced for over two years. It doesn’t matter if you've had a link in your signature for years, if we catch that your link violates the rules, we’ll remove it, and when we remove it, we’ll tell you why. If, at that point, you elect to add it again, you’ll be banned.

Folks, the rules are simple, the forums are here for emotional support, not financial support and certainly not for matching. If you violate the rules, you stand the chance of becoming banned and when you’re banned, you’re no longer welcome to participate here any longer.

I really hate posting this, but I hate arguing over moderator decisions even more. All of the members of the moderating team enforce the rules for everyone equally. You may think I am a bitter power tripping birthmom, and that’s fine…just remember, if you weren’t breaking the rules to begin with, I wouldn’t have to moderate you at all.

Thank you and have a nice night.

[Leigh131313]

Not at all Brandy..

I apreciate the moderator's who take the time to keep this forum running..



Leigh

[kiwi]

I'd like to second Brandy. The same rules have been in place for much longer than most people have been members, so there isn't anything new or made up on the spot to target anyone.

If you've been "getting away with" breaking the rules, that doesn't make it ok. It just means that you'll have to try that much harder to break the habit once a member of the admin/mod team tells you to stop.

In the rare event of banning
Being banned from the site does NOT make it ok for you to create another account. You, yourself, that person sitting in the chair, in front of the keyboard broke the rules and are no longer welcome to participate... it doesn't matter what name you call yourself, it's still you and you were still banned; multiple accounts created by banned members will be banned as well.

Be assured that moderating is not done on a personal level. There are several moderators who make decisions together, so if moderating is required, the moderator telling you about it probably isn't the only one to have looked at the situation and said "something needs to be done about this."

Thank you all for requiring very little moderator intervention

[mommieof2cuties]

I agree with all of what all three of you have said. Rules are in place to help us and that is all apart of life. I remember one of my first posts was edited because I had a website in it...I never realized we couldn't say that in a post...and of of the moderatarors was very nice to explain it to me in a PM. So sometimes we all learn about things and that is why we have them to help Thanks you guys, I understand your job is hard....

God Bless,
Summer