Terms of Service Announcement

Please be aware that all content on VFDC must comply with the Terms of Service.

All public facing content including forum posts, status updates and signatures may not include or link to:

• Pornography, adult or mature content
• Violent content
• Content related to racial intolerance or advocacy against any individual, group or organisation
• Excessive profanity

Content in violation of the above will be deleted on sight. Appropriate disciplinary action will be taken against repeated offences.

 

In case you might be wondering what triggered this announcement:

I received a notification from Google Ads today regarding inappropriate content found on VFDC. While they were not specific, they linked to an example page which violated the guidelines given for Ad serving. The example page contained lots of occurrences of "*aggot" and "*igga" which have since been dealt with.

The list of guidelines shown above are fairly straight-forward, but there's subjectivity around what's considered "excessive" profanity. The use of profanity is not out-right banned, but I trust your better judgement on the level and frequency of use.

If VFDC does not comply with the content policy, then Google will cease to serve ads here. If there are no ads, then VFDC loses valuable revenue which accounts for approximately 50% of the monthly running cost for the server. The remaining cost is out of my pocket.

The vast majority of you are complying with these guidelines. For that I thank you, and there's no further action required on your part.

The notice is just a reminder of the standing Terms of Service you implicitly agree to by using this service (VFDC).

Thanks.

 

FaethonsNemesis - if you mean posting the pics of the entire VF Comic, it most likely is a problem.

 

FaethonsNemesis, thanks for checking in with us first. If you have a genuine question regarding what's permissible to post, you're better off privately messaging the moderators.

Regarding copyright though, this particular post was pointing out specific content, but if you read the Terms and Rules it clearly warns against copyright infringement.

This comic you wish to post, if it already available on the Internet somewhere, then perhaps you can just link to it and credit the source.

 

Not a silly question at all. Even though the Shout Box is only viewable to registered users, the same rules apply.

 

Absolutely.

 

If you have evidence of said violations, please use the Report feature to enable the Moderator team to take appropriate action.

If you're referring to violations within the Shout box, please understand that due to its volatile nature, such as any chat medium, policing user behaviour can be difficult/impossible. If you have captured evidence of violations, or if a Moderator is online at the time, please bring it to their attention.