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Journal Rules Journals are "semi-moderated" - meaning we won't moderate your journals like we do the forums, but we will step in and swiftly remove entries that break any of the fundamental rules here, and we will enforce account suspensions on anyone purposely breaking the rules. Your journal on Cosplay.com is, in theory, a dedicated cosplay journal. It is provided so that you can keep other Cosplay.com members updated on your cosplay. Your entries show up in your profile and can be integrated into your costumes. The journal is NOT intended as a LiveJournal replacement, or a fully featured blog with categories, tags, etc. It is here so that your cosplay friends can have one local area to check up on the progress of your work, and vice versa, wrapped into the site itself. That being said, you are allowed to be off-topic in your journal, subject to some of the rules below. If you don't agree to these rules, you can always use other, more feature-rich journal websites. • Cosplay.com reserves the right to remove any post for any reason. • The same rules for the journal entries apply to the comments as well. • We reserve the right to modify these rules as necessary. • Entries cross-posted to your costumes and events must be on-topic. In other words, if you're posting some random stuff about your day and it has nothing to do with a specific event, please don't cross-post it to the event. Members will read the event journal to view things about the event, not how boring your day was. • Generic, unassociated entries may be off-topic - BUT - you must flag them as "non-cosplay" when you hit submit. This will filter the results for anyone wishing to ignore non-cosplay babble while searching/skimming the journal page. • All journal entries are public. • Drama. That thing that festers within many a journal entry. Start it here, and your journal gets shut down. It's as simple as that. Start it maliciously, and we may ban you from the site. • No "calling anyone out" in your journal entries. You may not use the journal to harass or post personal information about any other person. No posts with malicious or libelous intent. You may not post anything that denigrates, defames, makes fun of or belittles other cosplayers. You may not mask this as unsolicited "constructive criticism" either. • Controversial discussion. We're not going to stop you from talking about anything controversial. However, the subject may NOT be another person, or an entity that cannot defend itself. And no topics designed to taunt users from other websites. That sort of thing ALWAYS ends up in a mess of comments, and the moderators here have better things to do than clean up after something avoidable. • No contests. • No copyright infringement. Please keep journal entries PG-13 or less. No nudity, porn, obscene materials, hentai, or links to anything that would break the rules if it was on the site. Everything you post must be "safe for work". If you don't know what that means, please don't post. • No posting links to downloadable anime or manga. No linking to torrents. • NO SOLICITING. We have a very successful marketplace here - you will get views on your ads if you place one. You may not use your journal to sell something, be it an item or a service. Ever. Strategically circumventing this rule will result in the removal of the post as well. PROMOTING EVENTS/WEBSITES VIA THE JOURNAL You may use your journal to announce things related to your personal website or public event. • Promoting your personal website is fine. • Promoting a commercial website is NOT allowed. Examples: posting information on products for sale, posting paid photography services, etc. • Posting entries to promote another Cosplay.com-style website (a site where members can sign up, post photos, create profiles, etc) is not allowed. • Promoting your off-site event is fine, so long as it's a public event for cosplayers to attend. This includes conventions wishing to use the journal to post announcements. Any promoting on the site MUST include details and may not simply be a link to another website. If you need to promote a commercial endeavor on Cosplay.com, buy some ad space. We serve over 1.5 million ads per day, so we have a ton of it. Comments Comments in journals are set up exactly like the photos. You can choose to allow them universally, shut them off completely, choose which entries to allow comments for, etc. You can delete any comment in your journal entry that you would like to delete. If an ugly situation can be handled by deleting a comment yourself, please just delete it and don't worry about reporting the situation unless it returns. Remember that if you add someone to your ignore list, they will not be able to comment on your entries at all. |
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