DWW - ABOUT ADVERTISEMENTS

Conditions

Please remember the contract: subscribers agree NOT to submit, publish, or display on the server any defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, threatening, racially offensive, indecent or illegal material or information. Subscribers agree NOT to submit, publish or display on the server any commercial advertisements (i.e. for sale or rent of any products; agencies or companies offering or searching a model; advertising for prostitution; etc.). Transmission of such material and/or material that violates any federal, state, or local law, is prohibited and is a significant breach of the subscribers’ agreement.

Passwords for advertisements

The password for your advertisement should be different from the one you use to access the Web Club. Subscribers can choose any password they please and must enter it in the box provided at the time of inserting the announcement. You will only be able to delete or renew your advertisement if you have remembered the password!

How can I change my advertisement at some later date?

Delete it and type and submit a new one.

How should I present myself in the advertisement?

Well, that’s up to you. We recommend you not to use your real name nor to publish your phone number or address. Email is fine and fairly discreet. We recommend you not to exchange addresses or phone numbers until it comes time to arrange an actual meeting. Bear in mind that although in theory anyone in the world could be reading your advertisement, the overwhelming likelihood, since it is placed in a membership area, is that only readers sharing the same interests will come across it.

Say as much or as little as you like about yourself, but do try to be honest. There are several fields provided on the form for you to enter your details; it’s not, however, necessary to fill them all in. There’s also a comment box where you may submit additional information, be it about your personality and/or the type of wrestling partner you favor.

Always submit your correct email address. If you don't, no one will be able to respond to the advertisement, which makes the whole exercise rather pointless!

If you are looking for both male and female wrestling partners use the Comments box to make this clear. Do the same if you live near a frontier or are prepared to travel abroad or ask for your partner to do so; in such a case, you could write "N/A" in the Country field or just check "World" under Region.

Pictures

Nothing technical stands in the way of members uploading their photos along with their ads. However, before giving you that option, we would like first to investigate the legal implications. In the meantime, if you want people to see what you look like, there is nothing to stop you including the URL of your own home page in the text of your advertisement, so that anyone with a mind to can follow the link. The contents of your own home page are of course uniquely your responsibility.

Who may advertise?

Every subscriber is entitled to upload one personal announcement per ID (user name). To upload more than one advertisement, subscribers must apply for additional ID numbers. Each advertisement runs for 50 days, but it can be deleted before that time. The expiry date is displayed on the announcement itself. To extend the period of an announcement, a subscriber must renewed it before the expiry of the 50 days. Subscribers may, if they so desire, change the text of their advertisements at the time of renewal. Advertisements that are not renewed will be deleted automatically upon expiry of the 50 day period. Thereafter they will have to retyped.

Safety and ethics

1) A personal announcements service like this is certainly something wrestling fans have long be waiting for. In principle, the free and uncensored use of these pages should present no problem as long as the system is not abused. We're certain that 99.99% of all subscribers will respect the rules. There is bound, however, to be the occasional black sheep - and even if it's only one in a thousand, that could still be enough to create mistrust. Therefore we ask all of you that use the system to draw our attention immediately to any abuses you encounter. One type of abuse we seek to eradicate is the insertion of commercially motivated advertisements and links to other commercial web sites. Another type of abuse might be the use of bad language or the wrongful use of the name or image of a third party. We will of course deal with all such information in the strictest confidence, for it is only with your help that we can hope to keep these pages clean and make the whole idea a success.

Necessary Caution

2) Naturally we advise caution when divulging personal information or arranging meetings with others as a result of contacts established through these announcements. Being careful doesn't mean you have to succumb to the paralysis of paranoia but—especially for women—certain precautions are only a matter of common sense. Remember that however safe in your person and confident as to your anonymity you may feel when establishing new relationships over the Internet, once you begin exchanging addresses and phone numbers or arranging to meet you are back in the real world, dealing with real people with all the joys and hazards that entails. Don't, then, be lulled into a false sense of security! For this reason, we have tried to remind you of some of the basic precautions you would normally take when arranging a first meeting with someone you have contacted over the Internet, on a chat line or through an agency. Your local police force, Citizens Advice Bureau or women's group should be more than happy to help with further suggestions. We are convinced that the overwhelming majority of Web Club users are decent and law-abiding people. We would like, however, to be notified at once of any bad experience you may have as a result of having placed or responded to an advertisement on these pages (e.g. abusive behavior, phone calls or email), so that we can warn other subscribers about the offending individuals or practices.

1. Always meet for the first time in a public place, preferably where you and the person you are meeting will be noticed. You needn't apologize for insisting on this. Unless they're mind-bogglingly stupid (which we trust few Web Club members are) men understand the particular dangers women face and—rather than being embarrassed or taking offense—will recognize that this and the other suggested precautions are necessary, given the fact that the most dangerous people can appear the most plausible.
2. Try to arrange to be with a friend when you first make contact. If you can't arrange for a friend to be there, sit at the bar or try somehow to make the barman or waiter aware that you are on a 'blind date'. You might try to initiate a three-way conversation. The idea is to make sure that if anything should happen to you, someone will be able to provide a description, or recognize a photo, of the person you have met.
3. Try to find out as much as you can about the person before you meet. If anything he/she tells you seems inconsistent, try to obtain clarification. If it still doesn't add up, don't go through with the meeting.
4. Write down everything you know about the person you are meeting, and leave the information where it will be found in case anything happens to you. If when you meet him/her, the description is false in any essentials, make your excuses and leave.
5. Tell someone you can trust: who it is you are meeting, when and where. You might arrange to call them or ask them to call you at some stage in the proceedings to check that everything is OK.
6. Don't travel any distance or go to any great expense to meet someone without satisfying yourself beforehand, in as far as this is possible, that the person is genuine and not a practical joker.

Although what you are seeking may be a wrestling partner rather than romance, the implications for your personal safety are much the same in either case. For this reason, we urge you to follow this link to the site of the University of Oklahoma Department of Public Safety. It offers invaluable guidelines for persons pursuing contacts established over the Internet.