Welcome to the Stop Animal Rights Madness Web Ring
What is a Web Ring?
A web ring is a way to group sites with similar content by linking them together in a circle, or ring. The idea is that once a visitor is at one site in the web ring, they can click on a "Next" or "Previous" link to go to adjacent sites in the ring and--if they do it long enough--end up where they started. Each site in a specific web ring displays identical code and graphics to facilitate ring surfing. Special thanks goes to Sage Weil and the original WebRing, without whom this Web Ring would not exist!
What is the Stop Animal Rights Web Ring?
The Stop Animal Rights Web Ring is a group of sites related to the promotion of animal welfare philosophy and opposed to animal rights philosophy, with the purpose of uniting those sites to increase public awareness of the issues involved in the animal rights philosophy. Animal rights activists would like to see opposition remain separated by different issues. A united voice against ARAs is far more effective than a single cry in the wilderness. We can continue to be divided by our own issues, whether it be breeding, farming, medical research, hunting, fishing, rodeos, circuses, etc.--that is what they want. Or we can unite our voices and our home pages together in opposition to animal rights philosophy, and along with it, a dangerous erosion of human rights. As Arlo Guthrie would say, "Can you imagine if 1,000 people walked in and sang a bar of Alice's Restaurant. Friends, we'd have a movement."
This ring is only for pages that have content on the animal rights issues or animal welfare and are opposed to the animal rights philosophy. The Ring will include sites about medical research, hunting, fishing, breeding animals, exhibiting animals, farming ... all sites that recognize that there are legitimate uses of animals by humans and that promote animal welfare as well. If you are unconcerned about the comfort and well-being of animals or promote animal cruelty and/or abuse, don't apply. If you have a page that presents your argument against animal rights persuasively, please do apply. (See my Animal Rights: Myths, Lies, Terrorism.... Their Real Agenda page).
I monitor the ring often to make sure all sites are appropriate for the intent of the Stop Animal Rights Madness Ring and for a general audience. All Stop AR Madness Ring members are expected to be good netizens. This means that our members do not direct-link their graphics from other sites, they do not use the ring for SPAM, and they comply with copyright and usage limitations.
How to Join the Ring
- Register with the Ring.
The page you register should be the page that will actually contain the Stop AR Madness code. If you want to put the code on a "Ring Page", you may as long as your main page has content on animal rights and/or welfare, opposes animal rights philosophy, and has a VERY easy to find link to your ring page.
If at any time after you are a member of the Stop AR Madness Ring, you move your home page or want to make changes to your site description or keywords, etc. you can do that through the option box provided near the bottom of this page.
Registering with the Stop AR Madness Ring will put your site in the Stop AR Madness Ring 'Queue', where it will remain until you are added to the ring. Registering does not insert you in the ring; the actual insertion is done after your page has been reviewed. After you register, you will get a page that contains your fragment. You will also receive an email message with your fragment and site information. Save this message in a folder in case you need to edit your site information at a later date. Just copy the fragment from the page that you get after registration or from the email that is sent to you, and paste it into your page. It's that simple. You do not need to edit the fragment. It already has your Name, Email Address, and Site ID# in it.
- AFTER you have registered and the code and graphics are displaying correctly on your page, I will get a message from the ring stating that you are in the Que. I will then review your site. You can also e-mail ME at dandy_lions@pipeline.com and ask to be added to the ring, just in case the webring.org is down for a while (as it occasionally is).
After your page has been reviewed, if it meets the Stop Animal Rights Madness Ring requirements, you will be added to the ring. You will receive an e-mail telling you that you've been added, and will be able to navigate the entire ring. Until that time, clicking on the code will return you--and your visitors--to this page. There will be little waiting time for addition to the ring, as I will check the QUEUE daily, review the sites and add them, if appropriate.
Note: After you are a member of the Stop AR Madness Ring, if you move the Ring code and graphics to another page, you must change the registered page at the Stop AR Madness Ring. Do that through the option box provided at the bottom of this page
Be sure to write down your site number and password or save the email you receive with your site information in a special folder- you'll need them should you need to revise your listing in the Stop AR Madness Ring in the future.If your Stop AR Madness Ring page is not your main page, add a link FROM YOUR MAIN PAGE to the ring page that the fragment is on.
