The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society - Online Community Rules, Policies, and Disclaimers

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1. Explore our new online community forum -- Log on and familiarize yourself with the different topic areas and features, engage in discussions and start a blog. For assistance and news on forum features, visit the About This Community Forum discussion thread.
2. Participate and contribute. Once you are comfortable, introduce yourself and feel free to participate regularly in topics of interest. Author your own blog and share your blog site with your friends.
3. Stay on topic. Remember that you're interacting and developing content on a site hosted by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, which is dedicated to fighting blood cancers. The Society launched this forum to encourage peer support and to facilitate interaction among our various contacts. The Society reserves the right to remove content if it's off-topic or inappropriate.
4. Be safe. Protect your privacy. Disclose only what you feel comfortable disclosing. The BB is open to the public. Anyone can read the postings. Except for personal profile pages, the information you post is searchable by search engines. So post only what you feel comfortable being seen. Don't post your phone number or address. Be careful of how much detail you provide about your family. Do not post your personal e-mail address unless you are prepared to get more e-mail spam, as spammers "harvest" e-mails off the Web.
5. Think before you post. If you read another's post and it causes you to react strongly, try reading it again from a different point of view. Pretend you are your best friend or a person on the street. Would they react as strongly as you did? In online communities, we can't see and hear the people who post messages. So we can't assume we fully understand what they're saying in their text-only messages.
6. Start smart when creating new discussion threads. Before you begin a new discussion, search to see if the site already has one on your desired topic. Use clear subject headings for new discussions.
7. Follow the rules. Please do not post any of the following: Someone else's contact information without their permission, commercial advertisements, things for sale, fundraising requests, inflammatory material, or links to personal or professional Web sites with questionable content, photographs, and clinical trial solicitations. Do not request or offer medical advice or services such as analysis of medical diagnostic test results, offer a medical diagnosis or specific treatment plan.
8. Inappropriate to post: By participating on the Discussion Forum, you agree to not post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise volatile of any law. You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you. Please note that advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are inappropriate and will be removed.
9. Cross the line? The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society staff moderates the site. Moderators remove inappropriate posts. The Society reserves the right to restrict or delete an account if unauthorized material is repeatedly posted.
10. Concerned? If you are concerned about something on the site, let us know. E-mail community@lls.org and we'll look into it.
11. Be yourself! These boards are great because of you!