In posting to the CelebrateLove.com message board, please adhere to a few polite, common-sense guidelines. Following the spirit of these "netiquette" guidelines will make this a more meaningful area for everyone! With your help we are striving to be the best virtual "relationship" community possible.

1. If you do not wish your identity to be publicly known, create a different author name to post your message.

2. Don't re-post personal e-mail. If you receive an e-mail that you must share with the readers of this message board -- contact whomever sent it to you and secure their permission to post their e-mail. Please respect the privacy of others!

3. Do not assume the author name you see belongs to someone you know. It is extremely easy to create a author name that looks like someone's name in real life. With lots of people using this system, someone might already be using *your* name as an author name! So it's safer not to assume that the John Doe who posted a message is the same John Doe you know. You might also want to be suspicious of names belonging to famous people.

4. Please do not quote entire messages only to respond with a few lines of agreement or disagreement. These are called "Me too!" messages. If you respond to a message, be sure you are adding to the discussion.

5. Do not post the same message in multiple message folders. This consumes system resources and wastes users' time online.

6. Be careful what you type! We cannot spellcheck your messages for you and we will not revise anything after you have posted it. If you are responding to a message which makes you feel passionately about your response, you might consider waiting a while before posting it! You might be surprised how your message sounds after you've "cooled off!" Remember that people will perceive you according to how you express yourself. So think through what you are going o write, strive for clarity and try to be reasonable in everything you post.

7. DO NOT USE ALL-CAPS FOR YOUR ENTIRE POST! IT MAKES IT SEEM AS THOUGH YOU ARE SHOUTING AT YOUR AUDIENCE! "Netiquette" suggests that to do so is being rude. Not only that, it is more difficult to read. Only use CAPS for emphasis; one or two words as most. Enough said!

8. To avoid misunderstandings, be careful of your use of sarcasm. Your online audience cannot read your "body language" or hear your tone of voice. Therefore, it is important to write in such a way that people can understand what you mean by your words alone. Some people employ "smileys" in an attempt to do this :-) but many people complain that smiley usage is overdone and may not always adequately convey your attempt at sarcasm or humor.

9. Disagree or agree, AND always be patient, tolerant and considerate of others' feelings. It is inevitable that there will be many who will frequent this message board who will not believe the way you do. In fact, they may represent a radically different view than what you are accustomed to encountering. Please do not respond to their views in anger or intolerance, this will only close the doors for communication.

Feel free to state clearly what you believe -- exercise every right to disagree if you wish. However, please respect another's right to disagree with you, and avoid responding to anyone in anger. If you do disagree with someone, be careful to discuss their ideas, not their personality!

CelebrateLove.com will not allow messages with profanity, vulgarity, personal insults, harassment, blatant messages about hard-core sex or bigotry to remain on this message board. Please bring any such messages to our attention by providing the SPECIFIC path to the undesireable message in an email to MessageBoardHOST@CelebrateLove.com so we may delete it and ban the violator from our community.

10. Advertising or solicitation of services will not be allowed.

11. Posting a phone number or address on this message board is prohibited. We do not have anyway of verifying the number, and you can well imagine the pranksters among us who might post a phone number or address that is not their own. Therefore all phone numbers and addresses will be deleted from the message board.

12. Posting the same message in more than one folder is considered "SPAMMING" the message board and is highly frowned upon by the CelebrateLove.com Community.

CelebrateLove.com reserves the right to remove messages that, in our opinion, we deem be be abusive, defamatory, racial, obscene, or otherwise unacceptable.

NOTE: Larry James does not answer messages posted on the message board. He only answers e-mail sent from the Ask Larry James page.

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Please help CelebrateLove.com to be the best virtual "relationship" community possible by following these "netiquette" guidelines. We thank you and appreciate your cooperation.

If you would like to read more about the details of posting and reading messages before you visit our message board, please go to Help now. To return to our site, click "Back" on your browser. Clicking on "Help" after you get to the message board opens a new browser window. To return to the CelebrateLove.com message board, simply close the new browser window.

IMPORTANT: 

To post and read messages on the CelebrateLove.com message board, you must create a Coolboard account (Click on "New Account"). This process will take about three to five minutes. Remember to make a note of your "user name" and "password." A Coolboard account will let you participate in discussions on any message board where you see the "Powered by Coolboard" label.

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