Due to some comments made regarding underage people, it was deemed necessary to restate and make small modifications to the rules in this matter. The current guidelines are as follows:
- Inferring personal interest in sex with/having had sexual actions with, or posting sexualized images of a child under the age of 16 will result in a permanent ban. If the person is 16 or 17, you may be given a single warning (aka "final warning") with the ban, depending on context.
- Inferring another user has interest in sex with/had personal sexual actions with a child will be considered flaming.
- Inferring a non-user has an interest in sex with/had personal sexual actions with a child may be moderated depending on context.
- If a user posts a non-sexualized picture of someone underage with the intention of trying to bait other users into making sexually explicit comments, that user may be subject to a permanent ban, if the intent is clearly to get others to sexualize a child.
- As has always been the case, you are responsible for the content that you post. If you post a sexual image and/or make sexual comments in a joking manner about someone under 18 years of age, you are still subject to discipline. Claiming ignorance/not knowing the person's age is not an acceptable excuse.
- For situations where a user's sexualization of an underage person(s) is deemed an accident, lesser punishment may be discussed on an individual basis.
- These rules extend to and include the handling/treatment of animated/fictional characters. Whether the characters/people are fictional or not, remarks about these characters will be treated as real-life/non-fictional individuals would.
- In the rules above, "child" refers to any person(s) under the age of 16, the lowest age of consent law in the United States. (This distinction & single-offense permanent ban is the primary change to these guidelines.) Please again note that sexual comments about any person under the age of 18 are still not permitted.
- Inferring personal interest in sex with/having had sexual actions with, or posting sexualized images of a child under the age of 16 will result in a permanent ban. If the person is 16 or 17, you may be given a single warning (aka "final warning") with the ban, depending on context.
- Inferring another user has interest in sex with/had personal sexual actions with a child will be considered flaming.
- Inferring a non-user has an interest in sex with/had personal sexual actions with a child may be moderated depending on context.
- If a user posts a non-sexualized picture of someone underage with the intention of trying to bait other users into making sexually explicit comments, that user may be subject to a permanent ban, if the intent is clearly to get others to sexualize a child.
- As has always been the case, you are responsible for the content that you post. If you post a sexual image and/or make sexual comments in a joking manner about someone under 18 years of age, you are still subject to discipline. Claiming ignorance/not knowing the person's age is not an acceptable excuse.
- For situations where a user's sexualization of an underage person(s) is deemed an accident, lesser punishment may be discussed on an individual basis.
- These rules extend to and include the handling/treatment of animated/fictional characters. Whether the characters/people are fictional or not, remarks about these characters will be treated as real-life/non-fictional individuals would.
- In the rules above, "child" refers to any person(s) under the age of 16, the lowest age of consent law in the United States. (This distinction & single-offense permanent ban is the primary change to these guidelines.) Please again note that sexual comments about any person under the age of 18 are still not permitted.
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