styx_n_stones
Hi Lanzer.. Im looking froward to the summer event, hopefully itll be a blast
Question one) With the closure of the Dolphinmania site & the announcement made in the Aquarium forum stating that using sites that basically bypass the forum & link direct to the tanks (aggregate sites) is not permitted, 2 questions come to mind.
1) does this mean that any other aggregate sites have to be shut?
2) even if they are shut or not, but other sites pop up, how would you deal wth users using them? is it (or going to be) a bannable offense & how would you be able to determine if people are using those sites? as either via the Aquarium forum or via aggregate sites, they both do the same thing, open the tanks via the same link.
Question two) Can we please have sets of rules published concerning Flobs & post styles, and also for using Youtube videos. theres been a few occasions where they have been so large its distracting....and as for youtube videos, people have been posting them in signatures & when told they are not allowed to, all that comes back is "well it doesnt state anywhere in the ToS / R&G that we cant...so i will put them there if i want to"
The main site had always been DolphinMania and we just wanted to be fair to them with the heads up mainly because the amount of time that was put towards building the site and the community as the first to be there. Any other outside aggregation services should no longer work technically because of some changes we're making to Booty Grab. Any chance we can get a hold of the other sites owners we'll talk to them also. Hope that answer both questions.
Yes there will be more rules around the use of post styles and videos separately. We'd like to ask everyone to be courteous to fellow Gaians and don't do what themselves would otherwise consider as distracting. In time we'll have much more concrete rules setup.