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TOS changes

posted by Polsaker on announcements

After reviewing some of the terms of service laid out by our hosting provider (Vultr), some changes have been made to our TOS. The reason for this is because our previous TOS did not specify certain conditions that have to be met within our hosting provider's TOS. If Phuks breaks their agreement, they could take the site down, so there is really nothing we can do other than update our TOS.

Changes

Gambling is prohibited.

Basically, any form of betting where money is being exchanged is a no-go. Do it off site. Gambling would be ok, but if Vultr says it isn't, then it isn't.

Using Phuks as a place to discuss, plan or engage in any action that would compromise security, tamper with system resources or accounts on computers at Phuks, or any other site, is strictly prohibited.

Don't use Phuks as a place to hack stuff or discuss hacking stuff. Use our IRC to do that instead.

All images, videos or depictions of any kind that show sexually explicit or suggestive content involving children (whether virtual or real) is strictly prohibited. Additionally, content or communications seeking to solicit, lure or entice minors into sexual activity or lewd behavior is also strictly prohibited.

Loli porn is now banned. That was not specified before. Also, don't use Phuks to Phuk kids, we somehow forgot to mention that.

Optional email addresses provided to Phuks upon account creation will be used for account registration, and will not be shared with any other party.

We have to mention this, under the terms of our hosting provider, but it should have been in the TOS anyway.

Posting content of any kind that incites discrimination, hate or violence towards one person or a group of people because of their belonging to a race, religion or nation is strictly prohibited.

Yep. Vultr has a ban on hate speech. So we need one too, otherwise Phuks can be taken down. As a result, content that clearly has no purpose other than to breed hatred towards one or more persons due to their race, religion or nation will need to be removed. /s/Niggers comes under this umbrella, and must therefore be banned, under the terms of our hosting provider.

After reviewing some of the terms of service laid out by our hosting provider (Vultr), some changes have been made to our TOS. The reason for this is because our previous TOS did not specify certain conditions that have to be met within our hosting provider's TOS. If Phuks breaks their agreement, they could take the site down, so there is really nothing we can do other than update our TOS. ###Changes > Gambling is prohibited. Basically, any form of betting where money is being exchanged is a no-go. Do it off site. Gambling would be ok, but if Vultr says it isn't, then it isn't. > Using Phuks as a place to discuss, plan or engage in any action that would compromise security, tamper with system resources or accounts on computers at Phuks, or any other site, is strictly prohibited. Don't use Phuks as a place to hack stuff or discuss hacking stuff. [Use our IRC to do that instead.](https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.goat.chat#throat) > All images, videos or depictions of any kind that show sexually explicit or suggestive content involving children (whether virtual or real) is strictly prohibited. Additionally, content or communications seeking to solicit, lure or entice minors into sexual activity or lewd behavior is also strictly prohibited. Loli porn is now banned. That was not specified before. Also, don't use Phuks to Phuk kids, we somehow forgot to mention that. > Optional email addresses provided to Phuks upon account creation will be used for account registration, and will not be shared with any other party. We have to mention this, under the terms of our hosting provider, but it should have been in the TOS anyway. > Posting content of any kind that incites discrimination, hate or violence towards one person or a group of people because of their belonging to a race, religion or nation is strictly prohibited. Yep. Vultr has a ban on hate speech. So we need one too, otherwise Phuks can be taken down. As a result, content that clearly has no purpose other than to breed hatred towards one or more persons due to their race, religion or nation will need to be removed. /s/Niggers comes under this umbrella, and must therefore be banned, under the terms of our hosting provider.

58 comments

[–] Boukert 2 points (+2|-0)

Would really hate to see you go mate. Just know we are not really happy with this either but for now this is a temporary measure untill we get a better server.

https://phuks.co/s/Whatever/5276

I can assure you we are not looking to strictly enforce this, as by no means do we want to impose our view or will on people. (It's why we left reddit in the first place) but we have to have this on paper for now due to legal shit and crappy server.

[–] SilverBanana 2 points (+2|-0)

So the host we want is around $100 for a month, right? And we currently pay $20. So we need around $500 to cover the six month cost?

I suspect that only way to monetize the site this early on is ad trackers, correct?

[–] Boukert 2 points (+2|-0)

Think @polsaker found something a little cheaper but around that price range.

Well, we value privacy as much as free speech, so we rather not use ad trackers and such to make cash off our users data. (That whole new TOS reddit implemented in Jan 2016 was horrifying imo)

We have a lot of "fair" revenue stream ideas. We are opening our merchstore in the first week of Feb for one.

Other planned revenue streams are a "gold-like" system, selling ads, a membership for some extra features, paid featured sub etc etc. (we are very open to any ideas from any phukkers)

We mean to make this a community by and from the community. No need to profit unjustly over the backs of our users. For us quality is much more important then profit. We started phuks to make a new home, not necessarily our new paycheck.