Stuff you need to know

Privacy Policy

You should always take privacy policies with a pinch of salt because most of them are fictional, however:

We will never give any personal information you share with us to anyone, under any circumstance ever, other than when forced to do so by a court of law, and even then, we'll be arsey about it. Should our government pass a law that forces us to take such action without a ruling from a court of law, we will resist, but may have to comply under those circumstances too.

Be aware, we cannot be responsible for third party websites. Facebook sells your personal information to third party sites. There is nothing we can do to stop this. Using our Facebook connector will not protect you from them.

Likewise, while it is highly unlikely to be a problem with other more ethical networks, there will always be a very small possibility that other sites you connect to may have something disagreeable to your idea of privacy in their terms. It is your responsibility to read their privacy policy before communicating with somebody on a new website for the first time. Many Diaspora pods have no privacy policy at all. Use your own discretion when connecting to users on those.

Advertisements

We'd really rather not use them at all, and have no plans to do so at this point, but we reserve the right to include advertisements on any page/s throughout our site should it become too expensive to run. However, we guarantee that any non-opt in advertisements we do include will adhere to our privacy policy - ie, we will never give your personal information, or personally identifiable information to anyone ever. This means we will never use advertisements that place cookies on your computer, track your surfing, employ behaviour targetting, or make use of any of the other unethical methods employed by 99% of internet advertisers. Additionally, any banners will be hosted from our own servers so external advertisers do not even have access to your IP until you choose to click through.

"Non-opt in" sounds a bit eyebrow raising, so let me explain. When a singer, or a sports team, or your favourite beer set up a fan page, and you follow it, even if you like their posts they're still, ultimately, selling you something - that's advertising. You explicitly opt-in to these pages, so whether or not you think their ads are acceptable is entirely up to you, and you can simply choose to stop seeing them.

Posting guidelines:

A large portion of our likely target audience will be accessing this site from public places. As such, we're more "family friendly" than other similar sites:

Public Posts

Public posts must obey the 12 year old sister rule. Imagine your (real or imagined) 12 year old sister walks past your computer, and glances at the screen. Are you comfortable with her seeing the content you're about to post? If you are, fine, post it. If you're not, post it, but do so privately to your contacts only. This generally means bad language is fine, but anything that jumps off the page - like pictures and video - probably isn't.

Pornogrphy

Please note, it is illegal in the jurisdiction we are based to distribute pornography. I can face a large fine and a prison sentence if you distribute porn with my knowledge and I do nothing about it. Don't do it, you'll be banned.

General Guidelines

Don't be a muppet. If one person tells you you're being a muppet, you probably just don't like each other. If ten people call you a muppet, there's still room for doubt. If 100 people tell you that you're being a muppet, you're probably being a muppet. If I call you a muppet, you are being a muppet.

That means no trolling, unless you're good at it. If you're good at trolling, we don't mind. If you think trolling is the same thing as insulting people, you're wrong - that's being a muppet.

No stalking, harassing, threatning, or cyber bullying other members. Even if they're muppets.

No croww posting to off topic groups. That's the single most annoying behaviour of the distributed web. Is your post really relevant to 97 groups? No, it's not - you're being a mupppet.

Don't do illegal stuff. It's illegal.