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Please review the monitor guidelines for a more complete description of a monitor's duties.

To volunteer as a TheDoghouse.org chat monitor, you must:

• be a regular TheDoghouse.org chat room user for at least 6 months.
• have no history of violating our guidelines.
• be at least 18 years old.
• work well with other volunteers.

As a TheDoghouse.org chat room monitor, you have the opportunity to:

• develop friendships and work in a unique online community.
• provide a new level of service to your community.
• strengthen your online skills.
• assist in the direction of the TheDoghouse.org community.

TheDoghouse.org expects our monitors to:

• attend scheduled net meetings.
• protect confidentiality.
• respect guidelines.
• project a professional manner.
• keep up-to-date on TheDoghouse.org's policies and procedures.

We appreciate your help in making TheDoghouse.org a safe gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender online community.

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• Violations will not be tolerated. TheDoghouse.org monitors have the authority to remove unwanted visitors from chat rooms at their discretion. Removal may occur on the first offense of any guideline listed below.
  
  
• The youth areas  are for slave youth to interface with a space of their own, it is not intended a hunting ground for prey.
  
  

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• Solicitation for sex or pictures is not permitted in youth areas and sexually explicit nicknames and profiles will not be tolerated. Discussion should not be sexual in nature. Violations will result in removal from the chat rooms. Monitors are permitted to request private chat with any user on the male youth floor for age verification. For information about youth safety online, go to: Internet Safety Guidelines for Children.
  
  
• TheDoghouse.org does not permit pornography in its chat rooms, profiles or homepages. Some of our partners may allow some of this material on their sites, but on the portions of their services co-hosted by TheDoghouse.org, this material is not allowed. 
  
  

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• We welcome people of all sexual orientations, ages, races, religions, genders, ethnicities and viewpoints. We do not tolerate expressions of bigotry, hatred, harassment or abuse, nor will we tolerate threats of harm to anyone.
  
  
• Advertising is not permitted in public chat rooms, profiles or nicknames. This policy forbids the inclusion of profiles that contain links to Web pages that redirect TheDoghouse.org visitors to adult sites, pay-per-use sites, adult verification sites and escort services. Links to Web sites intended for obvious commercial intent is in violation of this guideline. Pay-per-use sites using TheDoghouse.org chat may not advertise in visitor profiles. Pages/sites with credit card submission forms are not permitted. Violators will be asked to remove promotional information from their names and profiles. Removal from the chat rooms is warranted, if this policy is not honored. Nothing in this section is to be construed as banning homepages hosted on other sites that meet our guidelines, e.g. homepages on such sites as www.gaydar.co.uk, www.geocities.com and www.planetout.com are not to be construed as violations of this guideline.
  
  
• TheDoghouse.org does not interfere with the relationships made by its visitors. Please do not contact us to mediate disputes you may be having with other visitors in the chat rooms.
  
  
• Monitors are instructed to refrain from interpersonal disputes among visitors. Please use common sense when requesting help from a monitor. We encourage settling disputes without monitor mediation. Be aware that she/he is monitoring multiple rooms and your request for attention should be justifiable.
  
  
• Personal disputes or arguments should not take place in public chat. Please use private chat when arguing. Failing to move a heated argument to private chat will result in removal from chat.
  
  
• Bashers are not permitted. Monitors are instructed to immediately and permanently ban any such individual from the chat rooms on the first offense.
  
  
• TheDoghouse.org believes everyone's chat experience should be a positive one. Visitors who purposely disrupt conversation in any room will be removed from the chat rooms. Examples of disruptive offenses include filling the chat window with the same message, self-indulgent evangelism, USING ALL CAPS and repeated changing of user names.
  
  
• Visitors of the opposite gender must move to the "Friendly Visitors Room," "Bisexual (mixed) Room" or other specified area upon request by any visitor in chat rooms. Monitors are instructed to remove individual(s) for violation of this policy.
  
  
• Impersonating someone else is not allowed.
  
  
• Illegal or fraudulent activities are not allowed.
  
  
• Research, interviews and therapy are prohibited in chat rooms. Links to Web sites promoting therapy treatments are not permitted in visitor profiles or chat.
  
  
• Promotional materials and solicitations many not be transmitted to visitors unless officially sanctioned by TheDoghouse.org.
  
  
• If you have questions about the Chat guidelines, or need to report a violation, please contact us.