02. Basic Rules of GI

[Unka Bobby]

BASIC RULES GI's Prime Directive is that emotionally-real Innerkids should be protected and encouraged to explore their needs and fulfillment in whatever way is best for them. This can be a very wide range of tastes, limits and goals -- so, rather than having a lot of concrete rules to complicate things, we try to focus on that Prime Directive, and we must ask you to respect it, too. But make no mistake, the fulfillment and safety of the Innerkids is the point, here. Many of them need safe Guardians in their lives, but we're not here to match anyone up, or to be a playground for adults -- we're here to protect and encourage emotionally-real Innerkids. GI's a benevolent dictatorship, and I've overseen it since 1995, but I have a special group of folks who "get" what we're doing, whom we call the "Lollipop Guild", who're moderators, and have moderating powers. We discuss issues that come up around here among us, and a number of them are here a lot of the time. So people are keeping an eye on things most of the time, and you can expect the Prime Directive to basically be applied to overseeing things around here. That means that if you're doing something that interferes with an Innerkid's opportunity to be safe (emotionally as well as physically), and to be encouraged to find their own fulfillment, then someone's probably going to have a problem with that, and you're probably going to find your post removed or something. We want to be as warm-and-fuzzy as possible, that's the nature of the population and the goals -- but one of the reasons we think that GI has lasted is that it's not hampered by bureaucracy or piles of rules and procedures: If you're doing more harm than good for the community, or if you're interfering with an Innerkid's safety or fulfillment, then you'll be asked to stop... And if you don't, you'll be asked to leave. A couple of concrete rules are necessary, nonetheless: * Sexual or otherwise intensely "grown-up" discussion or play must be done in the Kittery. (If you don't want to see the Kittery side of GI, just PM me and I'll make it so). * Trolling for quick "chat play", or generally treating the place like a pick-up bar for Innerkids is strongly discouraged: Our belief is that the Prime Directive would include us discouraging Innerkids from trusting strangers with their most vulnerable side too easily, entering into virtual "adoptions" too quickly, and generally to be wary of newcomers who're only here to hook up ASAP. * Respect and gentleness when talking to or playing with Innerkids is also necessary for the Prime Directive, so unnecessary meanness, harshness, manipulation, etc., won't be tolerated for long. * Using any GI features to bother anyone who's asked you not to (such as the Personal Message (PM) system, the chatrooms, etc.) is, of course, hampering their emotional safety, so can't be tolerated. ~ ~ ~ That being said, we do try to be as loose and carefree as possible, and almost everyone gets along just fine, so don't be uptight about any of the above. If you get what we mean by "emotionally-real Innerkid", and you understand why we consider them so precious, and worth protecting, then you should be just fine. Write me if you have any questions or concerns about these things... Or anything, really! And have fun! --UB

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