How Many Have Read the DU Terms of Service?

[MineralMan]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=termsofservice

Just curious to see percentages. On most websites, few people ever bother to read the TOS or Privacy pages. I've seen that by watching statistics for sites I've worked on. DU's TOS is really short and simple, but how many DUers, or what percentage, have actually read that simple Terms of Service Statement?

2 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	I have read the DU TOS and remember what it says.
	0 (0%)
	I have not read the DU TOS.
	0 (0%)
	I read it once, but don\'t remember any of it.
	1 (50%)
	I don\'t read such stuff - EVER!
	0 (0%)
	I\'m not answering this, on Fifth Amendment grounds.
	1 (50%)
	There are dingbats on DU, I\'m sure.
	0 (0%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[clarice]

1. have read.nt

[sharp_stick]

2. I remember most of it

but I admit to not committing the entire thing to memory.

[Ernesto]

3. Read it in early 2001

When the chimp was installed

[GoCubsGo]

4. Some of them...

I have read the "Community Standards" section, thanks to jury duty. The rest, I just pretty much assumed, based on watching the people who got tombstoned over the years. Just read them now. It's everything I figured it would be.

[MineralMan]

5. Thanks for reading them. I was hoping that this

poll would encourage people to do that.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Ought to be a requirement before an alert can be made.

Speaking as a former member of MIRT, former host of some groups, and all too often on juries where the alerts were nonsensical.

[MineralMan]

7. That would be great, I think.

Maybe there should be a required reading before joining. Take the new member to that page and force a agreement before returning them to the site, with a time delay to make sure there was time to read the TOS. Same with the Community Standards.

I remember reading both before ever posting on DU. When DU3 was launched, I reread them. I couldn't recite them, but I know them both.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. think about posting that idea to ATA..maybe they will consider it.

In the alert box, it does ask if the alert is a violation of TOS but no way to show/know the alerter has any clue what TOS is, much less Statement of Purpose of the group that the post is being alerted on.
I suspect that is the reason many juries come back with no explanation, just the vote.

[MineralMan]

10. I think it has already been suggested. I remember reading

a message like that. If I remember correctly, Skinner said they had no plans to do that. Usually, my memory serves well, but I could still be mistaken.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Well, it's not Shakespeare's sonnets or War and Peace....

So, I've only glanced in it in the same way I do at labels on cereal boxes.

[hrmjustin]

11. I read it often. n/t

[Tx4obama]

12. I hope everyone takes the time to read the 'Statements of Purpose' of each forum too :)

[graham4anything]

13. If one goes to wiki, voila, this comes up

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Underground

Democratic Underground, also known as DU, is an online community for U.S. Democrats. Its membership is restricted by policy to those who are supportive of the Democratic Party and Democratic candidates for political office.[2] DU was established on January 20, 2001, the day Republican George W. Bush was inaugurated president

[graham4anything]

14. Right there in paragraph one= Paulites are NOT welcome here. (Ron and Rand Paul=Paulites).

Don't be a wingnut (right-wing or extreme-fringe).

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