Recent Rule Updates/Additions

[pmbstaff]

Hello everyone,



Recently we have made a few additions to the Pulse Rules and Guidelines.



Last week, we added this clause to the rule that currently prohibits posting Spam:

Solicitation of monetary contributions for members' own purposes is also prohibited.

This addresses the potential issue of members giving out their financial information to people on this board, particularly if the people they're giving this information to...have decidedly less-than-well-meaning intentions. Even worse, would be if any of our members who are under 18 give out this information.




Today, we are also adding:


Under Posting Rules -

7. No personal information. -- Do not post personal information regarding others without their consent. This includes the use of other posters' pictures, as well as pictures of non-members (excluding celebrities). Furthermore, do not post any pictures of minors under 13 years of age, in accordance with the ProBoards Terms of Service/Privacy Policy.

(For clarification, clause (2) of the TOS states consent to the ProBoards Privacy Policy, which can be found here: www.proboards.com/privacy
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Also, for our rule regarding Signatures, this clause has been stated:

Signatures also cannot violate any of the other rules.

We have updated the Rules to also include avatars and status messages under this same rule, such that it now reads:

4. Signatures, statuses, and avatars. -- Signatures, status messages, and avatars cannot violate any of the Pulse Rules and Guidelines. Signature images also cannot exceed 100x500px in size nor can they be more than 300kb.

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If you have any questions/comments/concerns regarding any of these rule changes - fire away! :)

[Deleted]

YAWN. I see you changing rules since IAM THE QUEEN OF SLANDERING FOLKS VIA STATUS MESSAGES.

how about we update the harassment policy to include staff should not stalk, harass or carry out petty retaliation against Coco.

[Greecelove]

Ok ! Accepted !

[Chelsea Press 2]

Mar 6, 2015 20:07:17 GMT -5 pmbstaff said:

Solicitation of monetary contributions for members' own purposes is also prohibited.

This addresses the potential issue of members giving out their financial information to people on this board, particularly if the people they're giving this information to...have decidedly less-than-well-meaning intentions. Even worse, would be if any of our members who are under 18 give out this information.

It makes sense, but has this actually happened? If so, wow, OMG. 

[Kurt]

It wasn't based on anything from a current member or anything - someone joined recently to spam and wanted money for their project, so this addendum to the spam rule covers that.

[pmbstaff]

Mar 6, 2015 20:07:17 GMT -5 pmbstaff said:

Also, for our rule regarding Signatures, this clause has been stated:

Signatures also cannot violate any of the other rules.

We have updated the Rules to also include avatars and status messages under this same rule, such that it now reads:

4. Signatures, statuses, and avatars. -- Signatures, status messages, and avatars cannot violate any of the Pulse Rules and Guidelines. Signature images also cannot exceed 100x500px in size nor can they be more than 300kb.

For the sake of avoiding repeats of last night (or similar instances), and to enable enforceability, this rule now also includes display names.