Welcome to our community!
We want our community to be a helpful, informative and friendly space for all. If you have any questions regarding our community please contact an admin and before using please read through our Community Guidelines below to make sure you are familiar with how you can protect yourself and others and help make our community friendly and valuable space for everyone:
- Be nice: Please avoid posting material that is obscene, indecent, abusive, offensive, harassing, violent, hateful, malicious, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable. Please also consider if your content could be interpreted as racist, sexist, homophobic, etc.
- Be kind: Please don’t engage in personal attacks or post rude comments about others
- Be careful: Keep your information safe - don’t disclose your own (or anyone else’s) personal information or data, including address, telephone numbers, email address etc. Please respect other’s privacy - and don’t reproduce messages that have been sent privately on the forums or by email.
- Remember the law: Please refrain from being defamatory, fraudulent, or misleading or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offence. Please don’t violate the legal rights of others (copyright, intellectual property, etc.)
- Be truthful: Don’t make false or unproven claims about MS or the MS Society or promote products/services related to treatment of MS
- Mind your language: People of all ages and backgrounds read and contribute to these forums, please don’t post extreme profanities that could cause upset.
- Advertising, selling and spamming: Please don’t promote third parties or their products or services, or content that could be considered spam. Advertising which is considered or deemed to be spam, and/or promoted excessively within a thread/post will be moderated as appropriate by an admin. We accept signposting within reason but blatant advertising to a third party site or content will not be accepted. Spamming can also be considered by posting multiple threads within short vicinity or regarding the same/or similar topic - please respect other forum members and use your original post to add too.
- Research posts: Please note that the forum is a peer-to-peer support network and should be used as such. Any threads mentioning/containing links to individual research projects/surveys or promoting a research project in any way will be removed.
- Think copyright: Aside from being subject to copyright, lengthy posts cause problems for visually impaired people with screen readers. Please use links to other people’s content instead.
We want our MS Society HealthUnlocked community to be a helpful environment for all - Posts that include content that breaches our community guidelines may be edited or deleted and may result in you being banned from accessing the community in the future.
*This is an open community, please understand that the material posted on the forum might not reflect the opinions of The MS Society, its employees or affiliates.
Our MS Helpline is also here for you. If you have a query or question regarding MS you can call us in confidence on 0808 800 8000 or via helpline@mssociety.org.uk
