Field of Dreams Communities Standards

The Freedom Congress is a member of Field of Dreams Communities and whole 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.

GOOD NEWS: We will be setting up a DIRECTORY of member groups and offering space for groups on hosted servers such as Yahoo or MSN to move to our own NING site. Details will be released in subsequent Daily Fields. Thank you, The Field of Dreams Communities Administrators