This is an announcement that we are tweaking two rules, outlined below:
1. From this announcement forward, tracing and art theft posts will fall under our usual 'no proxy' blanket rule. This means an involved party will need to be the person who posts the beware, whether it be a purchaser or the artist whose work was stolen/copied. Be aware that the 'must be transaction related' rule still applies to art theft posts, and that you can always take your proxy art theft posts to
art_theft.
2. All Paypal addresses and real life names should be censored when you submit screencaptures, pending our best judgment in specific cases. Previously, we manually checked to see if this information was publicly available, but we have decided censoring them from the start would be a better direction.
Thank you for reading!
1. From this announcement forward, tracing and art theft posts will fall under our usual 'no proxy' blanket rule. This means an involved party will need to be the person who posts the beware, whether it be a purchaser or the artist whose work was stolen/copied. Be aware that the 'must be transaction related' rule still applies to art theft posts, and that you can always take your proxy art theft posts to
art_theft.2. All Paypal addresses and real life names should be censored when you submit screencaptures, pending our best judgment in specific cases. Previously, we manually checked to see if this information was publicly available, but we have decided censoring them from the start would be a better direction.
Thank you for reading!
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If the Paypal addresses and or real life names are publicly displayed by the user being posted; they should still be censored in all screen-captures regardless, correct?
There may end up being certain cases where we'd allow publicly available names/emails to go uncensored but there would need to be a solid reason for it, which probably wouldn't come up too often anyways. But yeah, we're defaulting to asking these to be censored from now on.
Mostly this new rule is in place to cut back on how much time it takes for us to dig around to see if something needs censoring or not. Doing that was a real time sink.
But yeah, there will still likely be times when some of the IRL names/emails that are given out on userpages may be let through if it holds weight in the beware itself, but that will have to be done on a case by case basis.
Edit: D'oh! Dani is faster at answering than I am. Sorry for the extra word mountain! :)
Edited at 2014-07-01 08:25 pm (UTC)