General guidelines
As in any community, Talk Irish members are asked to respect others.
Talk Irish is used by many different people, from complete beginners to language experts, from teenagers to adults. Please bear this in mind when posting messages.
Try to find the forum that suits you best. If it's not here, email us and we'll organise it for you!
You may enter into chats about the use of the Irish language, which may lead to disagreement. Try to agree to differ in a civilised way. Don't use language or personal abuse that others may find offensive. Abusive or offensive messages may be deleted without notice.
The Irish language has three main dialects. It can be useful to note which dialect you are using. Sometimes people prefer one dialect over another. It's important that you don't make a value judgement on which dialect is 'better' than the others. Each dialect is unique and important, and used by many speakers. Try not to disparage a dialect that is 'different' to yours.
Monitoring
Talk Irish forums are not monitored. If you receive an unpleasant message, or one that makes you feel uncomfortable, don’t reply to it. You can report it to us. You can also notify us of other inappropriate use, such as advertising. Include the forum name and some details to help us identify the post. We’ll take appropriate action against postings and users who misuse the forums.
Post on topic
Keeping on-topic makes forums easier to follow and more constructive to use, so make sure your posts are relevant to the topic being discussed. Talk Irish may delete posts that appear irrelevant to the discussion in which they’re posted.
Keep your personal information safe
By adding content to your user profile, you can let other users know more about you. This can help you make friends and enrich the Talk Irish community. But it’s best not to give out your full address or phone number of your home, work or school either on your profile or in the forum.
Your profile can only be viewed by other Talk Irish members. However, the forums are public. If you disclose personal information online, it could be collected and used by third parties to send you unsolicited materials.
Be cautious when sharing your email address. If you do give out your email address, don’t open emails from people you don’t know. Don’t open emails with attachments from people you don’t know – they could be carrying viruses or malicious programmes.
Meeting people
You may meet a language partner online, who you would like to meet up with to practice Irish face-to-face. You must be careful about meeting other forum users, as it is very easy for people to pretend to be someone they’re not. Follow these guidelines when agreeing a meet-up:
Under 18s:
1. Always ask your parent(s) or guardian(s) first.
2. Ask your parent(s) to go with you.
3. Always meet in a public place of your choice.
Over 18s:
1. Get a friend to accompany you.
2. Always tell someone you trust about where, when, and who you are meeting.
3. Always meet in a public place of your choice.
Legal stuff
In using the code you are issued with in order to make posts on this bulletin board you are agreeing to comply with all laws pertaining to publishing on the World Wide Web. The laws that are most often called into question are those pertaining to copyright and to defamation. It's your responsibility to be aware of these laws when you post any content here. Note that the laws concerned may include both those of the country the site is published from (the United Kingdom) and whatever country the material is downloaded to, which may be any country.
If you want to quote material from other published sources (websites, books, or any copyrighted material) you must attribute the source. Quote the name, author and publisher of any printed source. Most website authorities allow links to URLs on their sites - do this when referring to content on other websites.
If you're not sure whether you are infringing copyright when creating a post, DON'T POST!
The Talk Irish team take no responsibility for material that you publish on this bulletin board using any code issued to you for that purpose.
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