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In order to have your account approved for posting, you must send a Registration Email to administrator (at) casebook.org titled "New Registration Request" (that EXACT title) and give a brief introduction of yourself and your interest in posting as well as the username you registered. We get a lot of spam registrations and your account will not be approved unless you can follow those instructions. If you can't follow these instructions, it proves you aren't interested enough in posting here to either familiarize yourself with the rules, or follow some simple instructions and therefore, we don't want you posting here. We frequently have people contacting us through the Contact link stating something like "I've been waiting in the moderation queue for months and you haven't approved me! WHY NOT! WHY WON'T YOU LET ME POST!" And the answer is simple and above: if you've been waiting in moderation for months and haven't bothered to click on the Rules page to do a little investigation, again, you are exactly the kind of person we don't want on our board.
Registration Guidelines
Each community has its own feel and its own rhythm. Below are some guidelines for transitioning into this community.
1. Read the Rules. We have created an explicit rule system. Read it. The Admin gets very snarky and annoyed when people send us an email asking a question that is already clearly answered on the forums because they are too lazy to do some reading or use the search feature. We tend to just ignore those emails.
2. Recognize that anything you post here is permanent. Occasionally we get people who have posted under their real name or through some other identifier asking to have their entire posting history deleted because they are undergoing a job search or suddenly wish to disavow their words. No, we will not do this. We have archived posts from 1999. If you post it here, it is here for as long as the website exists.
3. Before creating a new thread, search the forums to see if a thread already exists on that topic. If there is not a thread on the topic you wish to discuss, make sure that you create your new thread in the appropriate forum. Suspect threads in the individual suspects forum, victim threads in the matching victims forum, etc. Please make sure you title your thread specifically and as relevantly as possible. Don't title a thread "So I was thinking about this..." but instead " A thought about where Jack might have lived". This helps us in determining whether threads are appropriately placed or need to be moved to a new forum.
4. Make an effort to communicate clearly, using appropriate punctuation and capitalization. We have valued foreign posters who already have difficulty deciphering English without the added complication of trying to glean the meaning from a sloppy, carelessly written post that has no punctuation markers. This holds especially true on Ripper related threads.
5. Be prepared to be disagreed with especially when discussing theories. Accept it as part and parcel of participating in the boards. Do not argue expecting to win, but for the sake of airing and sharing ideas.
6. Be advised: New members are sometimes restricted from accessing certain forums for a specific period of time. This generally occurs when we are having trouble with a banned poster repeatedly attempting to create multiple new accounts and spam a particular topic. Sorry for the inconvenience if you register during this time. Generally speaking, the "Other Mysteries" section is open only to established members as that tends to be where we get the majority of our issues.
Registration Guidelines
Each community has its own feel and its own rhythm. Below are some guidelines for transitioning into this community.
1. Read the Rules. We have created an explicit rule system. Read it. The Admin gets very snarky and annoyed when people send us an email asking a question that is already clearly answered on the forums because they are too lazy to do some reading or use the search feature. We tend to just ignore those emails.
2. Recognize that anything you post here is permanent. Occasionally we get people who have posted under their real name or through some other identifier asking to have their entire posting history deleted because they are undergoing a job search or suddenly wish to disavow their words. No, we will not do this. We have archived posts from 1999. If you post it here, it is here for as long as the website exists.
3. Before creating a new thread, search the forums to see if a thread already exists on that topic. If there is not a thread on the topic you wish to discuss, make sure that you create your new thread in the appropriate forum. Suspect threads in the individual suspects forum, victim threads in the matching victims forum, etc. Please make sure you title your thread specifically and as relevantly as possible. Don't title a thread "So I was thinking about this..." but instead " A thought about where Jack might have lived". This helps us in determining whether threads are appropriately placed or need to be moved to a new forum.
4. Make an effort to communicate clearly, using appropriate punctuation and capitalization. We have valued foreign posters who already have difficulty deciphering English without the added complication of trying to glean the meaning from a sloppy, carelessly written post that has no punctuation markers. This holds especially true on Ripper related threads.
5. Be prepared to be disagreed with especially when discussing theories. Accept it as part and parcel of participating in the boards. Do not argue expecting to win, but for the sake of airing and sharing ideas.
6. Be advised: New members are sometimes restricted from accessing certain forums for a specific period of time. This generally occurs when we are having trouble with a banned poster repeatedly attempting to create multiple new accounts and spam a particular topic. Sorry for the inconvenience if you register during this time. Generally speaking, the "Other Mysteries" section is open only to established members as that tends to be where we get the majority of our issues.