Our Terms of USE includes the following, which ALL apply in this community: Field of Dreams Communities (FODC) Standards, FODC Member Agreement, Reagan 2.0 Community Standards, Reagan 2.0 Memebrship Requirements, Reagan 2.0 General Guidelines, and Posting Etiquette.

Please read these Terms of Use as ALL persons who join this community are assumed to have AGREED to these Terms of Use as a precondition of membership.

FODC STANDARDS-

Reagan 2.0 is a member of Field of Dreams Communities and while our Terms of Use do apply those who may not be familiar with Field of Dreams Communities (mostly Yahoo Groups) need to be aware of some basic STANDARDS:



1. Civility- on all space except for "The Hardball Lounge" (or any location designated as a "no holds barred" in your community) there is NO name calling and being rude and un-civil



2. Conflict- we encourage members to keep their quarrels in private, if your community has an Ombudsman or individuals who handle resolving conflicts, feel free to contact them, if not, contact the group owners, moderators, or administrators



3. Content, on our servers or on any of our groups (Yahoo, MSN, Google) must basically be "family friendly" unless it is designated as for adults, however anything extremely vulgar or beyond is prohibited EVEN IF your group is on Yahoo or MSN in the ADULT AREA



4. Ownership- ALL Field of Dreams Communities that are on MSN, GOOGLE, or Yahoo Groups, or now NING, MUST be owned by a Field of Dream administrator



5. TOS- on any hosted group all members must abide by the Terms of Service of the host, e.g. Yahoo Groups and etc., however any ABUSE of TOS to harass members or to circumvent our conflict resolution protocol will be cause for moderation or banning



6. Privacy and Clones- we do not allow clones, more than one ID per individual, unless your group is a simulation that allows clones and we expect all chats and discussions to be considered private and confidential- disclosure of any material without the permission of he author outside of the group is forbidden



7. Content use- all content is Copyright Field of Dreams Communities, the member community, or the author and must not be copied, posted, used, transmitted or etc, unless prior permission has been obtained



8. GROSS Insensitivity- if you are found using racially insensitive remarks or otherwise making statements that are deemed to be inflammatory and against our basic Christian ethic we will require that you make atonement by means of a formal letter of apology and a donation to a non profit entity that serves the offended audience with a $100 or greater donation, with proof to be mailed back to the community where you made the offending remark. FODC does not tolerate any kind of hate speech or serious insensitivity to any group of individuals.
 
REAGAN 2.0 MEMBER AGREEMENT
 
Reagan 2.0 is a member of The Field of Dreams Communities, a network of virtual communities of various types.
The following is a requirement for ALL Field of Dreams Communities.

I agree to the following as a member of this Field of Dreams Community:
 
1) I acknowledge the administrative leadership as fixed and permanent and that the Governance Team  have the "Best Interest of The Community" authority and will make all final decisions for the good the online community. This rule may not be questioned in the public areas but may be addressed by a Community Standards Committee
 
2) I will abide by the member rules and all other applicable rules
 
3) I will leave personal or past issues with other members or leaders of this community or individuals and other communities out of this community
 
4) I acknowledge that if I violate this agreement I can be and will be removed and questioned by the administration of this community
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5) I agree to resolve any and all disputes through the mediation process, refraining from flame wars, agitating against people, or spreading false accusations whether through the list itself or in personal emails or IM's about members of this group.
 
6) I understand that I can be removed and made to go through the mediation process for violating this agreement.
 
REAGAN 2.0 Community Standards
 
By entering our community, you agree that you will not post any of the following material in chat rooms, message boards, or other forums:

1) Any communication that is intended to harass, belittle, humiliate, threaten or cause embarrassment to a fellow member or that reveals any or discusses any private, internal, or personal issues not suited for public consumption. This includes posting links to other sites/media that violate this policy.

2) Profanity or masking your profane words. This includes posting links to other sites/media that violate this policy.

3) Material that contains vulgar, obscene or indecent language or images. This includes posting links to other sites/media that violate this policy.

4) Any communication that contains spam (multiple copies in one area or the same communication in multiple areas), that solicits for donations,clients,  customers, or etc. or that solicits for other communities without the prior consent of the community staff (which is generally easy to obtain).

5) Material that defames, abuses or threatens others, even other political candidates, or that defames or smears who groups of people, including this community or any other community.

6) Statements that are hateful or racially offensive.

7) Any sexually-related images or discussion in any form will not be tolerated.
 
Reagan 2.0 Membership Requirements
 
1. Membership in the Reagan 2.0 community is open to anyone who agrees with Reagan’s 10 Commandments as a basis for advancing a free, strong, and prosperous America- this is a not a debate society.

2. Any individual who knowingly enters Reagan 2.0 for fraudulent reasons, to obtain information on members (members of the press must be verified and identified by phone prior to entering), lifts, copies, or uses personal information from or about members or that is the copyright of the member or this community,  who violates the law, or installs any harmful code or disruptive sound files or any files may have their membership privileges revoked and by entering the Reagan 2.0 Community you agree to our Terms of Use and to abide by our Community Standards while certifying that you are here to support our mission in pursuit of "Reagan's 10 Commandments"



3. At Reagan 2.0 we have "a place for everything and everything for its place", please respect the fact that certain subjects belong in certain places. We may set up Forum Groups, such as the Hardball Lounge, from time to time for members who want to discuss specific issues and when we do we ask that those discussions move to the Forum Group.

4. There are community volunteers and workers who can help you:

Guides- these are people who have moderator power and who seek to assist members, especially new members. We will be providing a list of Guides and you can contact them if you have questions or issues. You will see them with the title R2CG R2MOD.

Team Leaders- these people assist the Guides and/or run their own Group and who serve in some voluntary capacity to help with various projects or issues, A Team Leader may have the title "R2-TL" beside their name.

IT IS a serious violation of our Terms of Use to use a badge or title indicating that you have an official position of any kind within our community if this is not the case. If you see a title like "NB-MOD" this is a GROUP title, it means that this person is a Moderator in a group.


5. We do not allow multiple ID's: if we find a member has more than one ID per IP address, computer, or email address we may remove BOTH ID's. Please let us know in advance if two people use the same computer or email address. If you do not know about "IP Addresses" don’t sweat it, this probably does not apply to you, however we will let you know if there is an issue. Understand that if we do contact you, we are just doing housekeeping". Your help makes our life a lot easier and prevents a lot of potential for mistakes!



6. Personal issues, issues related to our community’s internal affairs or the specific issues of a specific member, and personal conflicts do not belong in public forums. You can and should address issues to moderators based on their relevancy and we have a place in forums, under feedback, where concerns, suggestions, and things of that nature can be discussed freely provided nobody's personal information is discussed



7. EVERY area in our community is PRIVATE and all content is copyright Reagan 2.0 or the person who posted that content and is protected under the law: we are a private community, this is NOT a street corner. You may not copy and paste or use any private information or email broadcast without the express permission of the person who posted it and copying and pasting articles , email broadcasts to members, or blog entries may be a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act



REAGAN 2.0 General Guidelines

1. We have public spaces, chat and forum, which are generally for people who agree with Reagan’s 10 Commandments. Please respect that if you go into these areas. You may be asked to "take it to the Hard Ball Lounge", a space we have set up just for our friends who may not always agree with us, a place where we can meet and debate or just be friends: generally, however, if you stay ON TOPIC and CIVIL you can post your views in forums at will.



2. Groups- you can start your own group IF you are a verified member and we will be happy to help you. If you start a group you may be given an opportunity to join The Community Building Group where group owners, Guides, and Team Leaders can share ideas and insights. Yyou can join any of the groups in our community, pursuant to the policy of the group leaders, the standards or rules of the whole community apply but these groups generally have their own rules and standards as well.

3. Your Profile- Private information is ONLY seen by you and the admins, nobody else. You will see a lock sign by that information. You can choose who can see your profile. You can blog there, or post items, you can customize your profile, choose friends, and lots more.
 
 4.  RESPECT for others- We have groups for all kinds of interests, please respect the fact that we all have different opinions, stay ON TOPIC in posts, and do not disrupt anyone's thread of group with something that is not relevant to the purpose of their thread or group.

If you do not like a thread or agree with it, start your own thread, don't disrupt that person's thread. For instance, if I post "I love shoes, let's all wear shoes!" respect my intention, to talk about my love for shoes, and if you don't like shoes, POST YOUR OWN THREAD. If you do not like a thread, either post your own or just ignore that thread.



5. Duplicate POSTING- If you are posting an article, please do NOT post the SAME article in numerous places. post you main article and then post SNIPPETS with a link to the main post for reader to find and try, in your snippet, to make your post relevant to the subject at hand or the purpose of the group where you are making the post. This is a bigger issue than many people know for search engines and by helping us with this you are increasing our "relevancy" to the search engines. Search engines do not "like" one site with multiple posts of the same content.


Posting Etiquette



1. Search before you post: Many topics have been discussed at length previously. Before posting any new thread please check to see if a prior thread has been recently posted already.



2. Stay on topic and post threads in the appropriate forum. Please post only messages that are relevant to the subject of the Forum - and relevant to the thread.

3. Don’t hijack threads: Don’t post irrelevant queries within threads; don't "gently caress" a thread or repeat the same argument over and over to occupy space. Please do not start a duplicate thread that can be incorporated into existing discussion threads. Moderators will be the sole judge as to what constitutes hijacking and their word is final.



4. Never post personal information such as phone numbers, credit card numbers, addresses, etc. in any public Forum. Please be very careful about giving out your personal email address or donating money to anyone through links as well. There are excessive amounts of postings and requests from new members who are providing links for donations and request of personal email addresses and credit card information.

5. Don't cross-post or double-post. Posting a message to more than one Forum (i.e "cross-posting") is unnecessary, and creates extra content for you and others to read through. If you've already posted a discussion, please don't repeat your posts in order to get more attention - this makes it very difficult for others to have their post be noticed.



6. Please report any disruptive behavior of a member by utilizing the proper protocol within the forum group, or blog you are participating in, do NOT accuse members IN PUBLIC of being a "troll" a "clone", a "spy" or of anything

7. Be nice. Please refrain from posting both inappropriate language and content. Personal attacks and insults are never appropriate.



8. Don't Post Messages in All Caps or All Bold. This is the online equivalent of shouting and marks your post as either a newbie or someone who wants to be rude. Either way you're better off simply not doing it.



9. Questionable Actions and Content. The Forum rules are not designed to cover every scenario. Any action that is seen to be counter-productive or harmful to the community or offensive to its members will be "moderated". The moderators can and will act in the best interest of the community.