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What are the community standards?
Our Community Forums are governed by the following set of standards that will apply to all community members and their posts. We reserve the right to remove any material that does not (in our judgment) comply with these standards and to revoke posting privileges at our discretion and without warning or explanation. Our decisions are considered final.
- Be respectful and civil to other members, even if you disagree with them.
- Any unacceptable content (posts, member names, or subject lines containing profanity, sexually graphic, or offensive language, etc) will be deleted.
- We do not allow harassing, threatening, racist, abusive, hateful, violent, or obscene language or behavior.
- Participation in, suggesting, or encouraging any illegal activity is cause for immediate deletion and suspension of posting privileges, and may be reported to the appropriate authorities.
- Any articles, news reports, or other copyrighted material included in the posts must be with the permission of the relevant copyright owners.
- Do not flood or spam, or post chain letters, pyramid schemes, junk mail, etc.
- No commercial solicitation or advertising will be allowed.
- This is a public discussion forum. Do not post personal or any other information that you do not want made public.
- Please keep in mind that other members may claim expertise or status (legal, medical, etc) that they do not, in fact, possess, and use discretion in following their advice.
Do I have to be registered to use the community center?
Feel free to browse as an anonymous guest, without registering. If you wish to participate by adding your own photos or by posting or replying to topics, you must register.
To register:
- Visit http://community.greatergoodnetwork.com
- Click the "Create Account" button
- Fill out the fields in the "Create New Member Account" page which follows
- Click the "Create Account" button at the base of this page to save your information
- You will receive a verification e-mail -- click on the Verify your e-mail link
- Your account is now verified!
- Sign in on the "Log in" page
- Please read and agree to the Community Standards -- you must do this before you will be allowed to post or reply to topics
- Welcome to your community!
How can I contact the site moderator? If you have questions, comments or concerns, please contact the Moderator at moderator@theanimalrescuesite.com.
How do I login?
- Visit http://community.greatergoodnetwork.com
- Enter your Member Name (case-sensitive; capitalization, spaces, etc., matter!)
- Enter your Password (case-sensitive; capitalization, spaces, etc., matter!)
- Select "Log In"
If you would like to be automatically logged in when you visit, click the check box next to "Automatically log me in". (Note: You must have cookies enabled for this feature. Your login information is encrypted and stored in a cookie.)
What do I do if I forgot my password?
To reset your password, first click Login/Register and then "I forgot my password". Follow the directions in the
email that is generated to the address you entered when you registered. Note: Many of the community features are
available only to those using valid email addresses.
What is a gallery?
A gallery is a place for displaying a collection of featured content. Depending on the features in the community, you may see things like Featured Profiles, Featured Photos, or Featured Blogs, which are member-posted content featured by community administrators.
What is the calendar for?
Community administrators use the calendar to note special events that may be of interest to members. Depending on the community, members may also be able to schedule events (look for the Add Event link).
What are forums?
Forums are discussion areas that allow members to share ideas, opinions and information quickly and easily.
Organized by topics in an easy-to-follow format, forums are designed so you can quickly locate information,
find other knowledgeable members and participate in conversations. Your community has standards of conduct that
explain the rules of posting; please familiarize yourself with the rules prior to posting. View our Community Standards.
How is forum content organized?
The content is structured as follows:
Categories: A category is a collection of forums or other categories. Categories organize forums into a tree
structure so that members can find discussions more easily.
Forums: Forums are the areas where individual discussions take place as a listing of topics.
Topics: Topics (also known as "threads") are the discussions, consisting of one or more posts displayed as a list,
or in a tree structure of posts and their replies.
Posts: Posts are the individual discussion contributions made by community members.
Replies: Replies are posts made in response to other posts, and are organized in a flat, tree or threaded mode.
How do I create a topic or post a reply in the forums?
To start a new topic, choose the appropriate forum and click Post New Topic. Type your topic header in the subject
line and type your text in the message box. Before you submit your post, you can spell check your text by clicking
Spell Check. When you are satisfied with the text, click Preview to see how your post will appear when published.
Or you can post without previewing by clicking Post.
Topic options:
To mark a topic as a question, click Mark as Question (if available).
If your community administrator allows attachments,
click Add Attachment, and then browse your computer's files, selecting one to upload along with your post. Note: There may be a limit on the number, size, and file types you are allowed to upload.
To post a reply to a topic, click the Reply icon next to the post to which you would like to reply. If you want to respond
to specific text from the original post, click Quote Original to add the text from the original post to your new text.
Edit options: If your community administrator allows editing of existing posts, you will see an edit icon in any post that
you authored. Editing privileges may be restricted to a certain timeframe or limited to any posts that have not yet
received a reply. Any edited post will display a time-stamped 'edited' notation.
What are ratings?
If this feature is enabled in your community, you may elect to rate a member, or particular content with 1-5 stars.
What is a profile?
Profiles are personal publishing spaces for information that members want to share with the community. If the community
offers photo albums, blogs, storyboards and forums, profiles include all the content created by the specific member who
authored them. To view all your own contributions to the community, log in and click My Profile. If you enter your AIM screen name, your online status may
be displayed on your profile. See the AIM Developer''s FAQ for more information about your AIM status display.
What is the list of profiles for?
The profiles list is a central place where members can find all the public profiles of others within the community. If
you do not wish to have your profile listed among the rest, click Hide (next to 'List me in the directory').
To create or update your profile, click Preferences in the left navigation bar under "My Content". Your profile, privacy settings, signature line, display preferences, avatars, subscription settings, storyboard preferences, and blog preferences are set from here. To edit settings, fill in your updated information and click Save.
To view the profiles of members who have posted in the community, click their member names wherever you see them as links. You can also use the search feature to locate their member names. You can elect to "ignore" a member's posts by clicking Ignore Member in the member's profile or in the member information area of any post the person has authored.
What is a photo album?
You can create a photo album, add pictures, add captions to describe your photos and even make comments to other photos in the community.
To start your own photo album:
- Click on "My Content" in the left navigation bar -- this will show you more options
- Now click on "Photo Albums" in the left navigation bar
- Select "Add Photo Album" from the "upper" navigation bar (it's under a drop down labeled "Menu")
- Enter an Album Title (and Description, if desired)
- Click the "Add Album" button
- Now select "Upload Photos" button in the "upper" navigation bar
- Enter / upload up to 5 photos at a time
- Click the "Upload Photos" button
What is a blog?
A Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal that is frequently updated and intended for public consumption. Blogs often
represent the personality of the author. You can also comment on other blog entries in the community.
To start your own blog:
- Click on "My Content" in the left navigation bar -- this will show you more options
- Now click on "Blog" in the left navigation bar
- Select "Post New Blog Entry" from the "upper" navigation bar
- Click the "Post New Blog Entry" button when you are finished entering your journal entry.
What is a storyboard?
A storyboard is a series of photos -- usually 2 or 3 -- based on a specific theme. Depending on the community, you may see such themes as breast cancer walk photos, pet photos, wildlife photos, etc.
To start your own storyboard:
- Click on "My Content" in the left navigation bar -- this will show you more options
- Now click on "Storyboards" in the left navigation bar
- Select "Create a New Storyboard" from the "upper" navigation bar
- Enter a Storyboard Title (and Description, if desired)
- Click the "Add Storyboard" button
- Now select "Upload Photos" button in the "upper" navigation bar
- Enter / upload up to 5 photos at a time
- Click the "Upload Photos" button
How do I add a video to community?
- Click on "My Content" in the left navigation bar -- this will show you more options
- Now click on "Videos" in the left navigation bar
- Select "Upload Video in ... " from the "upper" navigation bar (it's under a drop down labeled "Menu")
- Enter a Video Title (and Description, if desired)
- Upload your video file using the Browse button to find it on your computer or network
- Click the "Upload Video" button
What is a Tag?
A tag is a short descriptor -- a keyword, a label -- to help you organize, remember, and find your content later.
How do I add Friends?
To add a Friend who is already a community member:
- Click on "Profiles" in the left navigation bar
- Enter the member's profile name in the "Find a Member" search box (not case-sensitive), or
- If you don't know the member's name, use the "Browse Member Profiles" feature (this is the long way -- there are many pages!)
- Click on the member's profile name
- Click on "Add to Friends List" from the "upper" navigation bar (it's under a drop down labeled "Menu")
- Follow the invitation page and you will receive the message "You have successfully requested to add to your Friends list."
- The member you invited has 30 days to accept your friendship request before the invitation expires.
To invite a Friend to join community:
- Click on "My Content" in the left navigation bar -- this will show you more options
- Now click on "Friends" in the left navigation bar
- Click on the "Invite Friend" button (there are two -- one in the "upper" navigation bar and one in your Friends box -- either one works the same way!)
- Fill our your invitation and click the Send button
What do Subscriptions do?
A subscription notifies you via e-mail or mobile phone text message when a content area that interests you is updated. Similarly, you can subscribe to any content added by a specific member.
To add an item to your subscriptions list, click Subscribe at the top of the page. Clicking on Unsubscribe ends the subscription (and cancels any notifications you may have set). After 30 days, inactive subscriptions automatically expire (unless you elect to cancel the expiration in your subscriptions list in your Preferences). To see your current list of subscriptions, click 'Subscriptions'. Click 'Preferences' to change or update how often your receive notification on each of your subscriptions.
What is the 'Messages' feature for?
Community members can send and receive private email-like messages among themselves. Like regular email, but only for
messages sent within the community, My Messages allows you to easily keep track of messages in folders: Inbox, Sent, Drafts,
Trash and any others you create. You can even keep an address book filled with your friends in the community!
How do I send a message?
Go to My Messages and click Compose Message. Type the member's nickname in the 'To' box, enter your subject, type your
message in the large text box, and click Send. Or, go to the member's profile and click 'Send Message to Member', which
takes you to the Compose Message page with the member's nickname already in the 'To' field. Fill out the rest as noted
earlier in this paragraph.
How do I know if I have any messages?
When you have a new message, a small envelope with a starburst icon appears next to My Messages. If you have no new messages,
you won't see such an icon.
How do I create a poll?
If polls are enabled in your community, you can create them for your blog page or photo album and in the forums. To post a
poll, click Create Poll. Type your poll title in the subject line; then compose your question and poll reply choices. To
have the poll expire at a certain time and date, fill in the additional information as requested.
How do I search the community?
From just about any page of the community, click Search and type your term(s) into the search box, selecting where you'd
specifically like to search by choosing from the Content drop-down menu, and clicking Go. You can also search by specific
member name, and date ranges.
What does 'Email to Friend' do?
If this feature is enabled in your community, you can send a live link to a friend by clicking 'Email to Friend' and
entering the information as indicated.
What are RSS feeds?
If RSS feeds are enabled in your community, you may click the RSS link on any page to copy the code required to regularly
add any new content as it is posted, making it available to via your RSS reader software.
The Animal Rescue Site Community Disclaimer
By posting your stories and pictures on The Animal Rescue Site Community, you certify that you own the copyright to the picture(s) and story included, and that you agree to grant The Animal Rescue Site nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to copy, reproduce, publish in any media, distribute, and display all submitted photos, images, and text. The Animal Rescue Site reserves the right to alter pictures and edit text, and to publish or remove any submissions at any time. You also certify that any submissions posted (photographs, stories, blogs, videos, etc) do not invade the right of privacy of any individual; does not infringe any trademark, trade name, trade secret, intellectual property right; nor does it contain any material that otherwise violates any criminal prohibition or the personal or proprietary rights of any person or entity.
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