Welcome to New Members
Welcome to board77! I hope you will enjoy reading and posting in our forums.
Board77 is a member-moderated board. After you have been with us for a while you will be eligible to participate in our governance. This email contains information about your eligibilities and how to activate them. This email also contains information about our age-restricted forum and those forums that are invisible to non-registered members.
I would like to direct you first to your Member Rights and Responsibilities posted here:
http://www.phpbber.com/phpbb/viewtopic. ... rd77#89291
Second, we have a Charter that contains our mission, principles, by-laws and plans for the future. You can read a summary of the Charter here:
http://www.phpbber.com/phpbb/viewtopic. ... rd77#89294
The full Charter can be read or downloaded here:
http://uk.geocities.com/b77_ad/CharterIndex.htm
After you have been with us for three months and have made 100 posts, you will be eligible to serve as a juror and mediator. Board77 does not ban or restrict the access of members without giving them a Hearing, and our jurors listen to both sides of each case and make these decisions. Mediators help members resolve interpersonal disputes. Shortly before you become eligible for the jury pool, you will receive an email asking whether you are interested in serving the board in this capacity. Meanwhile, everything you need to know about jury duty and mediation can be found in our Handbook for Jurors, Mediators, and Loremasters: http://uk.geocities.com/b77_ad/Handbook ... ndbook.htm
After you have been with us for six months with a visible, contributory posting presence on our board, you will be eligible to serve as a Ranger. Rangers are our administrators. We have no moderators on Board77. You will receive an email shortly in advance of your eligibility asking if you would like to train as a Ranger. Meanwhile, everything you need to know about administration of the board can be found in our Handbook for Rangers:
http://uk.geocities.com/b77_ad/Handbook ... ndbook.htm
As soon as you registered you became entitled to vote on all issues that affect the board. Even if you are not interested in serving as a Ranger or juror, we hope that you will participate in all votes as a full-fledged member of our community.
We have one age-restricted forum, called “Thinking of England.â€
Topics that are not suitable for children are allowed in this forum, and you must be 18 years of age or older to participate. Because of the personal nature of some conversations, we ask that you wait until you have been on the board three months and have 100 posts before joining the forum. There are other courtesies that fellow-members ask of you while posting there. These are explained in the ‘sticky’ welcome thread at the top of the forum and can also be read here, in Article 6 of the Charter:
http://uk.geocities.com/b77_ad/CharterIndex.htm
Once you meet the eligibility requirements, you may PM or email a Ranger and ask to have your permissions enabled for that forum.
There are three forums that are not visible to non-registered members. These are: the Outside Forum where Hearings are held and interpersonal disputes between members are resolved; M77t and Geek where real life events are planned; and the Members’ Lounge where you can discuss any topic that you might not want published by the search engines which scan the web.
There is one forum that is not visible to registered members on a routine basis. This is the Sensitive Information Forum used by the Rangers and the Mayor for storing or discussing private matters such as the permissions of individual members. However, all members have opportunity to serve as Rangers and while you are a Ranger this forum will be visible to you. Forum Management, in which Rangers conduct daily business, is routinely visible to all registered members.
Board77 is very proud of its member governance and we hope you will find it interesting and fulfilling to be a member of our community.
With best wishes,
Erunáme, b77 Mayor