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Originally Posted by Dutchie
Dear 711, all
I was wondering what criteria are applied to judge !!!!ing away certain words. I can understand that offensive language is not allowed (rule 30), but I am really wondering why words like p e a b o a r d are !!!!ed away.
I'd love to learn what rule covers this and what criteria are applied to decide if a word is !!!!ed away (so I know what words to avoid in the future).
Thank you,
Dutchie.
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Links to and/or promotion of websites that substantially violate the rules of EntropiaForum or the EntropiaUniverse EULA may be censored by preventing such links in signatures, profiles, blogs, post content, or other publicly visible areas of EntropiaForum.com, especially when a consistent campaign to promote those sites is observed. The censored words or links are automatically replaced by exclamation points by the forum software, and will appear like this: !!!!!!!!!!.com
An example of such prohibited links are those to sites that feature scammer lists. The site you mention is one of these, and thus links to that site were prevented several months ago when it was noticed that a scammer list was being promoted.
Another example is popular third-party image hosting sites. In order to prevent broken image links on EntropiaForum, members are required to upload any images they wish to include in a post to the
EntropiaForum Gallery. It is thus more practical to prevent links from some of the more popular image hosting sites (such as image shack.com) beforehand, rather than waste moderators' valuable time removing unwanted links. This also encourages members (especially new members) to use the forum gallery instead, since the third-party image links will not work.
It would be pointless to have a set of forum rules prohibiting certain behavior or content if members were allowed to circumvent those rules by simply promoting and/or linking to sites featuring such prohibited content.
To avoid confusion in the future, I will include this information in the next update of the forum rules (even if it is pretty much already covered in this portion of the existing rules):
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Originally Posted by Forum Rules
The EntropiaForum administrators shall be the sole arbitrators of what does and does not violate EntropiaForum community standards.
The more general right to refuse access, ban a user, block an IP address, or otherwise restrict the functionality of EntropiaForum services in any way is reserved by the EntropiaForum administrators.
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