Hi Auxio, I can appreciate a clear expectation of the rules and while you mention trolling, racism and hate speech is important to fully understand, we have further explained exactly what we don't wish to see in the TOS agreement, here is an expert that applies to your question:
User content:
All content you post may be able to be viewed by other users of Snapzu, including any third parties, and should be considered publicly available for anyone to see. Snapzu is a content discovery service which supports and promotes the sharing, use and re-use of content being posted. You own your content, and you retain your rights to all content you make available, however, by making content public, you grant Snapzu a non-exclusive, worldwide royalty-free license to use, copy, display, process, modify, publish, broadcast, transmit, exhibit such content in any and all media, and to distribute it by all distribution methods. When you delete your user content, it will be removed from Snapzu, however, you understand that any removed user content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time.
By using Snapzu, you agree not to make available content that is:
Threatening - Don't threaten people, you wouldn't threaten someone at your birthday party. Don't PM threats and don't post any type of threats in snaps / text posts or comments.
Harmful - Whatever you wouldn't do to yourself because your brain instinctively tells you "its bad", don't do to other people. Unless you're a psychopath, then, just, use the code that your father taught you on how not to hurt others.
Unlawful - Illegal stuff gets everyone in trouble, so lets not do illegal stuff. Don't post illegal downloads, music, pictures or anything else that would otherwise land you in jail if engaged in on another medium (like a bazaar).
Abusive - Don't partake in abusive behaviour either by yourself or in a group. No witch hunts, no bullying, no posting of personal inf...
Hi Auxio, I can appreciate a clear expectation of the rules and while you mention trolling, racism and hate speech is important to fully understand, we have further explained exactly what we don't wish to see in the TOS agreement, here is an expert that applies to your question:
User content:
All content you post may be able to be viewed by other users of Snapzu, including any third parties, and should be considered publicly available for anyone to see. Snapzu is a content discovery service which supports and promotes the sharing, use and re-use of content being posted. You own your content, and you retain your rights to all content you make available, however, by making content public, you grant Snapzu a non-exclusive, worldwide royalty-free license to use, copy, display, process, modify, publish, broadcast, transmit, exhibit such content in any and all media, and to distribute it by all distribution methods. When you delete your user content, it will be removed from Snapzu, however, you understand that any removed user content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time.
By using Snapzu, you agree not to make available content that is:
Threatening - Don't threaten people, you wouldn't threaten someone at your birthday party. Don't PM threats and don't post any type of threats in snaps / text posts or comments.
Harmful - Whatever you wouldn't do to yourself because your brain instinctively tells you "its bad", don't do to other people. Unless you're a psychopath, then, just, use the code that your father taught you on how not to hurt others.
Unlawful - Illegal stuff gets everyone in trouble, so lets not do illegal stuff. Don't post illegal downloads, music, pictures or anything else that would otherwise land you in jail if engaged in on another medium (like a bazaar).
Abusive - Don't partake in abusive behaviour either by yourself or in a group. No witch hunts, no bullying, no posting of personal information, anything that you would dread happening to you, DON'T do it to others.
Harassment - It's alright to have a heated discussion on whatever topic comes to mind, but don't continue to repetitively PM someone after they have given you obvious signs that they have concluded their discussion with you. By obvious we mean obvious, harassment will not be tolerated in any form.
Libellous - Don't post personal information, don't post defamatory content about other individuals. I'm sure everyone of us hates negative untrue rumors going around about ourselves, this is even worse.
I think its fair to say that anything depicting any sort of harassment to people on and "off" the site will be unacceptable. We WILL enforce these rules, but like I mentioned earlier I believe the community will play a big part in keeping things civil.
Thanks for your response. I'm not sure the quoted part of the TOS really clarifies much however, since it is still very much up to interpretation: namely the sections Harmful, Abusive and Harassment. When you use words like 'obvious', it indicates that there is still a lot left being unsaid.
In fact, I'm probably more confused now. Especially with: "Whatever you wouldn't do to yourself because your brain instinctively tells you "its bad", don't do to other people. Unless you're a psychopath, then, just, use the code that your father taught you on how not to hurt others." These sections seem to be guide as to not break rules, rather than just telling us the rules directly.
Auxio, I appreciate your push for total clarity, but to be absolutely honest with you it is a a set of guidelines. We are making this up as we go along, and most importantly we are learning from the experiences and feedback of the community as a whole. I wouldn't imagine doing it differently, especially when it comes to forcibly setting hundreds of rules in an attempt to plug up all the loop holes that come with such a concept. Nope, we are doing our best to give the people here a good idea of what not to do, and at this point I think it's more than enough. Having said that, we don't have the experience, the time nor the will to create a 30 page document specifying in lawyer speak what is and is not allowed, it's just not possible. However, if you do have a detailed rule document like that, and are willing to share it, I would be more than happy to read through it and see if maybe we can do something differently. We are always open to try new things!
And that's absolutely fine. It's your website, and you can do anything you want with it. I like the format and features, just it's the rules are a bit ambiguous for me to put any significant contributions towards this site. I'll wait a while, and see how things turn out in a few months.
Hi Auxio, I can appreciate a clear expectation of the rules and while you mention trolling, racism and hate speech is important to fully understand, we have further explained exactly what we don't wish to see in the TOS agreement, here is an expert that applies to your question:
... Read FullThanks for your response. I'm not sure the quoted part of the TOS really clarifies much however, since it is still very much up to interpretation: namely the sections Harmful, Abusive and Harassment. When you use words like 'obvious', it indicates that there is still a lot left being unsaid.
In fact, I'm probably more confused now. Especially with: "Whatever you wouldn't do to yourself because your brain instinctively tells you "its bad", don't do to other people. Unless you're a psychopath, then, just, use the code that your father taught you on how not to hurt others." These sections seem to be guide as to not break rules, rather than just telling us the rules directly.
Auxio, I appreciate your push for total clarity, but to be absolutely honest with you it is a a set of guidelines. We are making this up as we go along, and most importantly we are learning from the experiences and feedback of the community as a whole. I wouldn't imagine doing it differently, especially when it comes to forcibly setting hundreds of rules in an attempt to plug up all the loop holes that come with such a concept. Nope, we are doing our best to give the people here a good idea of what not to do, and at this point I think it's more than enough. Having said that, we don't have the experience, the time nor the will to create a 30 page document specifying in lawyer speak what is and is not allowed, it's just not possible. However, if you do have a detailed rule document like that, and are willing to share it, I would be more than happy to read through it and see if maybe we can do something differently. We are always open to try new things!
And that's absolutely fine. It's your website, and you can do anything you want with it. I like the format and features, just it's the rules are a bit ambiguous for me to put any significant contributions towards this site. I'll wait a while, and see how things turn out in a few months.
Fair enough. Have a good one.