Welcome to the Ocean City Message Board! This page describes some of the features of our forum as well as some rules so you can be guided accordingly before you post here.

Features

• Customizable Threads: you can choose from a wide variety of formats to display the message board - experiment with these options to see which format you prefer
• Messages Displayed: you can set the message board to display as many (or as few) messages as you'd like to view - you can even go back to the very beginning of the forum and start at message number 1!
• E-Mail Notification of New Posts: just set your preferences to be notified via e-mail whenever new messages have been posted
• Search Feature: just enter your search terms and the board will retrieve all messages containing those words within your specified time range
• Spell Checking: clean up your message before you post
• Review Prior to Posting: you can choose to edit your message before you post it “live”
• User Profiles: you can create and edit your own unique user profile, and view the profiles of other regular contributors
• Stored Preferences: if you enable/accept cookies, the board will remember your user name and e-mail address, password, etc. during your session

There is a brief delay before messages actually appear in our forum, so please don't resubmit the same message repeatedly because you did not see your message immediately on the board.

Guidelines

This message board is intended to facilitate the exchange of information among residents and others in our area about local and community events, information, and issues. We welcome postings about such items as local events and news, garage sales, wedding and birth announcements, engagement notices, and the like. We do not allow advertising or promotion of any business or commercial enterprise other than our participating advertisers--this is a commercial site, and our advertisers pay to be listed here, so it would not be fair to allow others to advertise for free by way of postings on the message board.

Ocean City Online^SM is a “family-friendly” site, and we do not permit (and will summarily remove or edit) postings or user profiles which we in our sole discretion find to be offensive or inappropriate. Anyone abusing the forum or using it to annoy or harass others will be prohibited from participating. The bottom line: this is a privately-owned web site, and we will decide which postings we will or will not allow, at any time, and for any reason.