Friends of Captain Awkward

Actually, it turns out there has been a solution in plain sight all this time. At the bottom of every page is a link called "The team". It will take you to a page where you can see a list of all the administrators (people with red names) and a list of all the moderators (people with bold blue names,...

FoCA members who pay close attention to the board rules will have noticed that we added a new rule in section 5: 7. Asking for moderator help If you need moderator help, or would like to have a moderator look at your post and make sure it's okay, click on the Report button and ask your question ther...

Those of you with eagle eyes will have noticed that ArisTGD and letternext have had their names change from blue to red. This is because after giving moderating a try, they have agreed to become permanent members of the admod team. The rest of us could not be happier to have them join us. It's a big...

You may have noticed that the awesome ArisTGD and the excellent letternext have agreed to join the moderation team, so their names have turned bright blue! Please join the existing admod team in thanking them for stepping up to help us keep this community humming along.

The forum rules are posted here: http://friendsofcaptainawkward.com/forum/rules.php If you take a look at them, you will notice we've been working on making them more legible and complete. (And, yes, we know there are currently a few issues with formatting and links. We're working on fixing those.) ...

((Please note that I am posting here as a user, not as a moderator.)) In many specific disability communities, there are disagreements about person-first language. I am personally acquainted with activists on the ASD spectrum who are adamantly in favor of person-first language and I also know two su...

((Mod hat on)) Gracesonnet, ”Get some professional help" is medical advice and an implicit diagnosis of a person you have not met. In addition, in this post (and given the way you have chosen to phrase it), it acts as a way to bludgeon the person you are addressing, which is not allowed, no matter h...

This is another post about the current state of the world, resistance, feelings, and violence. In it, we want to discuss our hopes for the forum, some new guidelines we are adopting for how we as the admod team will manage content here, and a major caveat that we hope everyone (including all moderat...

When you send a PM, it goes to your Outbox. When the recipient reads it, it moves to Sent. This way, you can tell when the PM has been read,

((Mod hat on)) MerleauPonty, The thread in I Need Help belongs to its creator, M.J. We will leave it in I Need Help in case M.J. ever wants to revsisit the specific issues that led him to create the thread in the first place. If you explore I Need Help, you will see that sometimes the original poste...