These twelve traditions are guidelines for the fellowship of Online Gamers Anonymous, a nonprofit organization.
The twelve steps and principles were created so we don't kill ourselves. These traditions are here, so WE DON'T KILL EACH OTHER! Healing can be a very sensitive and volitile process. Please follow these traditions so we can stay united in our journey.
1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon OLGA / OLG-Anon unity.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for OLGA / OLG-Anon membership is a desire to stop excessive game playing.
4. The group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or OLGA / OLG-Anon as a whole.
5. The group has but one primary purpose-to carry its message to the excessive gamer who still suffers.
6. The OLGA / OLG-Anon group ought never endorse, finance or lend the OLGA / OLG-Anon name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. The OLGA / OLG-Anon group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. Online Gamers Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but we may employ special workers as needed.
9. OLGA / OLG-Anon., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. Online Gamers Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the OLGA / OLG-Anon name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
Note: The Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous have been adapted for OLGA / OLG-Anon with the permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. ("A.A.W.S."). A.A. is not affiliated with OLGA / OLG-Anon as A.A. is a program of recovery from alcoholism only.