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Being a Member of
Hittygirls is a Privilege, not a Right. Rules of
Participation
This
group is a discussion and play list for Hitty, a small wooden
travel doll. In order to understand our
play and to join in you will need to read Hitty: Her First Hundred
Years, by
Rachel Field. You can borrow this book
from the library or purchase it online for a reasonable fee. Other modern books about Hitty have been
written by Ellen Weiss and Rosemary Wells. We
have three Hitty-related lists. Hittygirls
is our Mothership. Under it we have
Hittygirls-Real-Life (for
discussing RL with other hittygirls members) and Hittygirls-WoodenWorld
(for
playing with wooden Hittys and her like-sized wooden friends
only—coming
soon!). You must be a member of
Hittygirls to join our other two lists. Please do not
cross-post/forward
pictures or messages from any of our three hittygirls lists. (Moderators only may do this at their
discretion.) Members
may NOT be on Special Notice only. You may
choose any of the other mail-reading
options yahoo provides. Members MUST
have at least a first name on the yahoo profile to be admitted to play. Posts may be signed with a real first
name
or a pseudonym, as long as we have a first name on file.
If you belong to any of other groups under
the Hittygirls umbrella, we ask that you use the same name in your
emails. Email addresses may be different
as long as
we know who is talking. You
are allowed one
membership to our lists. If you get a new email address, please
remember to
remove your old membership and then ask to rejoin with your new
membership. ‘Secret’ accounts,
multi-accounting, and memberships designed to deceive members into
thinking you
are someone else are considered fraud, both by Hittygirls and
Yahoogroups. Anyone found employing such
accounts will be
(and have been) banned for life from our play, and reported to
Yahoo. The single exception to this would be a pre-approved
activity
within the group. We
have a strict policy regarding negative comments--and this applies to
auctions as well as to list members. Anyone posting negative comments
will be
placed on moderation immediately. Any
arguments formed within the confines of the Hittygirls list may not
be taken privately. This is
considered
harassment, not only by Hittygirls rules, but by Yahoogroups rules, and
can
result in being banned from both venues. If
you experience private harassment you can report it to
a Mod or to
Yahoo. Mods will not get involved in any private fights,
but we
can help you figure out how to block and/or report someone who is
harassing
you. Posts
received within the list may not be forwarded to other lists, forwarded
to non-members, displayed on web sites/blogs, or
made public
in any Social Media. This is a
private discussion list, and any posts within the list are made with
the
assumption and right of privacy. This
does not include swap messages or other activities that may require
private
discussions. This is a Hittygirls rule and
a Yahoogroups rule. No
flaming, no religious or political discussions, no forwards, no spam,
no multi-list health alerts, no chain letters of ANY kind, no virus
alerts
(because most of these turn out to be hoaxes anyway) and no messages of
the
'please forward this to everyone you know' type. No
off-topic (non-Hitty) posts may be sent to our list. We have a
separate list for those wishing to get more involved with other
hittygirls
members. Please join hittygirls-real-life at yahoogroups to discuss
real life. Also, no posts with
‘off topic’ in the
subject line. If our members wish to read off topic posts, they are
already members of the RL group. If you have a RL post
you think
should be sent,
please send it first to a Mod, who will distribute your post if
applicable. The
only exception to this rule would be the death of a Hittygirls
Member. If you would like to pass along this news, please send the
particulars
to any Moderator or your list owner, and it will be sent to the list as
a
Special Notice. No
privately promoted charity events or benefits, unless approved by the
Mods. Charity events will be limited
to
catastrophic events we wish to help, such as our Tsunami and tornado
relief auctions
of the past. Any member may suggest a
charity event to the Mods at any time, and the Mods will make the
decision to
make it a list activity. Our
Hittygirls-Real-Life
can be used to promote any charity events or benefits, as this is the
list we
set up to discuss Real Life events. Promoting
your eBay sales through posted announcements to the list is
allowed, as long as the sales are Hitty-related. However,
keep in
mind that this is primarily a discussion list, and if you post sales,
you are
expected to create other posts also. In other words—to sell on
our list, you
must play on our list. We also have an in-list sale venue, the
Z-Hitty Sale
Items photo album. This will be purged monthly to keep it current and
clutter
free. (You are welcome to post again at the beginning of a new month.) On
Hittygirls, we maintain monthly and special event photo albums. We do
not allow personal albums on this list. If
you forget and start a personal album, we will move
your pictures to
the current month for you, and delete the empty album.
(Hittygirls-Real-Life and
Hittygirls-WoodenWorld permit private albums). If
you are playing in an activity, it is your
responsibility to put your
photo into the appropriate (and not private) album. All photos need to
be
labeled with a name and activity title to qualify for any offered
prizes. Photos
submitted for our pleasure need to include Hitty. While
we welcome Hitty’s like-sized friends,
this is a Hitty list, so we need to see Hitty having fun with her
friends. Of course there will occasionally
be
exceptions to this rule (photo challenges, etc), but do try to keep to
it as
much as possible. While
we appreciate a good tag sale, we ask that any finds be
Hitty-related, in scale, and not out-scale items. Of
course Hitty play is in the eye of the
beholder, but items obviously intended for larger dolls (such as a hair
brush
the size of Hitty’s leg) would be considered out-scale. We
have a lot of swaps and challenges, and encourage folks to play with
us. We have two categories for
swaps: Advanced and Regular.
To join an Advanced Swap, you will have to go
to http://www.hittygirls.com/swapperapp.html to find out the
particulars. Only accepted Advanced
Swap members will be
allowed to join an Advanced Swap. Regular
swaps may be joined by any member. Once
you have been approved for Advanced
Swap, this will cross over to our other lists, if applicable. We
understand that these rules may seem strict, but we intend to keep
our lists safe and happy for everyone playing inside.
Most of them are common-sense rules, and some
are special rules for our specialized list. We
hope you will understand the spirit with which they are
created, and
come on in to play! |