Users posting contact information in chat rooms and forum posts results in excessive low-quality spam, which makes our services harder to use for chatters with constructive, insightful things to say. Do not post contact information of any kind — phone numbers, email addresses, personal websites, handles/usernames/addresses for any outside messenger services or social media, or other such information.
Additionally, users should never share contact information belonging to any other person. There is no way for us to verify that such contact information is being shared with the consent of the person to whom it belongs. Sharing contact information that belongs to any other person will be interpreted as an attempt to harass, defame, or incite violence against that person.or other such information.
In fact, we can’t be sure that any contact information shared by any user belongs to that user. Therefore, any contact information shared on our services could be regarded simultaneously as spam and as an attack against another person.
Any information, such as any person’s full legal name, residential address, place of business, or that of their friends, family, known associates, employer, and so on should never be shared on our services. We cannot verify that a given user sharing personally identifiable information owns that information, so the sharing of any such information will be regarded as an attempt to harass, defame, or incite violence against that person.
— Do not post, link to, stream, or otherwise share any content that is under copyright by an entity aside from yourself. This may include artwork, video, animation, audio recordings, works of fiction, and other kinds of content.
— This also applies to any media depicting other real persons, especially that which was shared with an expectation of privacy or the expectation that it would not be shared with anyone but the original recipient. This includes sharing pictures of other users of our service, whether original or altered. Content depicting persons who are not public figures engaged in acts of public performance, or otherwise permitted as public domain, should never be shared on our service.
If someone does not want to interact with you, then you don’t interact with them. Reaching out for initial contact is fine, but if they have made it clear that they are not interested, move on. Every user has the ability to block other chatters, or manage their private message and forum privacy settings to prevent being contacted by people who they do not want to interact with. Circumventing these measures to re-initiate contact with a user who has blocked you constitutes harassment.
Moderators act to improve the quality of our services by managing troublesome users. When moderators make decisions that you do not approve of, you may contact us with a description, with evidence, of any problematic behavior. However, do not harass moderators about their decisions or discuss moderator decisions in public. They are chatters just like you and are subject to the same protections against harassment that other users enjoy.
Impersonation of any other person will not be tolerated. This explicitly includes all users of our service, all moderators and staff. Additionally, impersonation of any public figure will not be tolerated. This may be interpreted as an attempt to harass or defame any given figure, or an attempt at social engineering, depending on context, and an offender may bear criminal or civil liability for such actions. the same protections against harassment that other users enjoy.
Repeated low-quality chat or forum posting, especially if intended to draw attention from our users toward some outside service, constitutes spam. Doing this frequently, especially with the aid of automation tools, constitutes flooding. Neither is acceptable.
— Posts containing contact information will be considered spam.
— Unprompted posts stating nothing but basic information about yourself, fishing for private messages, may be considered spam.
— Crude “any girl” posts that clutter the chat or forums may be considered spam.
— Repeated re-posting of copy-and-paste lines of any kind may be considered spam.
Any attempt to hack, intercept communication to or from, gain control of, or otherwise attack the service, any users connected to the service, or the ability of the service to function in its full capacity, will not be tolerated. Any person performing any such actions may be prosecuted under various national and international fraud and trespassing laws and/or liable for civil damages.
Because we cannot guarantee our ability to translate any posts containing languages aside from English, no language aside from English may be used on any of our services. Posts written in other languages may violate any of our rules, and we have no choice but to be suspicious that this is the case in any given instance.
Do not attempt to solicit payment — using any sort of exchange medium, including any real or digital currency, credit, gift cards, bonds, checks, IOUs, etc — for or seek purchase of any kind of goods, services, or activities using any of our services. This includes:
Selling, buying, or arranging to buy or sell pictures, videos, audio recordings, live webcam sessions, adult chat sessions, any sort of adult goods, whether physical or digital,
Selling, buying, or arranging to buy or sell any sort of contact information with the promise of adult activity off-site,
Selling, buying, or arranging to buy or sell any sort of prostitution or related activity, whether dates, escorts, arrangements, hookups, and so on in real life.
Selling, buying, or arranging to buy or sell any goods, services, memberships, or anything not previously mentioned here,
Soliciting for advertisers or sponsors, or sharing any kind of advertisement, including, but not limited to, linking, sharing promotional material, embedding advertisements in uploaded content, spreading “word-of-mouth” for any other service outside our service, etc.
Any disciplinary action issued for violating these rules is final. Users evading disciplinary action may be subject to trespassing charges where applicable.
Users of our services are bound by all of the above rules. Use of our services constitutes continued agreement with these rules. We provide these services at will and at our discretion. We have final control over whether you are permitted to use our services. If you disagree with any part of these rules, you may not continue to use our services.
These rules may be changed at any time for any reason, whether to increase restrictions or to lift them. This text will always be available and presented to all users when using our services. Ignorance of changes to the rules is, therefore, no excuse. Continued use of our services, even if rules are updated, constitutes agreement with the rules.