We hope all our members and supporters of Spoonie Talk will be long standing, supportive and helpful members of our community. We also hope that you build positive, healthy relationships with other members. However, like most groups, there are some small rules we have put in place to keep this community a happy, safe place to be. The rules are simple and easy to follow. However, if anyone breaks these rules, we will immediately ban you from the group. The rules are as follows:

• Respect one another, and respect others' privacy. We will not tolerate any kind of hate, discrimination, ignorance or judgement of any member of our group. Do not repost, copy and paste, or screen shot any information or posts from the Spoonie Support group to share elsewhere. This is a private, closed group and we expect it to remain that way. We will do everything we can to keep your privacy safe. However, please be wary of sharing sensitive, personal information, such as phone numbers, addresses, and so on. We advise you not to do this.

• If you are posting something that you may think upset others, such as death, relationship troubles, intimate information, or perhaps your post contains a lot of swearing, please use a CW (content warning) or a TW (trigger warning) before your post, and give a reason for that warning, plus leave ample space between the CW/TW and your post. For example.
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• If you have any kind of bias, ignorance, or issue with race, religion, skin colour, gender, or sexual orientation, keep it to yourself, or simply do not join our group. We will not tolerate ANY kind of hate and discrimination. We are a support group for chronic illness, and that's what we will do, support one another, not share hate speech.

• Every so often we will delete inactive members. We will let you know with an admit post if we are removing people, and please post if you want to stay in the group. We would like the group to be full of active members, not just spectators.

• Any sort of bullying will get you banned. Simple as that.

• Be aware the group also welcomes people who do not have a chronic illness, but know someone who does, or cares for someone who does. We are doing this because we understand it can also be stressful to be the loved one or a friend of someone fighting an illness, and we appreciate that you may want advice on how to deal with certain things and have emotional support.

• If you decide the group isn't for you, of course it's fine if you leave, but please send us a quick message as to why and/or if we can improve on anything.

• Please notify us ASAP if you witness any of the above behaviours going on within to group.
  
  
  If you follow these rules, we are sure you will fit in our group just fine, and hopefully find some extra support to get you through your days. If you would like to join the group, please click here and fill out the information asked for, and you will receive an email with a link to the group, where you can then request to join.
  
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