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This is an important announcement about a site rule clarification.
Linking to fundraising sites, donation sites, Paypal, etc. and/or otherwise asking or implying a request for monetary donations is not allowed on Aywas, as part of our Terms of Service. We've noticed a number of these types of threads pop up recently.
In addition, offering things in exchange for "donations" is not allowed. If you are in a bind and in need of USD, we advise making a sales thread to sell your art for RL$* and follow Aywas sales rules (See: Sales and Breeding Rules in the TOS). Offering pet PSD colorings or other Aywas items for RL$ "donations" is technically selling those items for RL$ which is against the TOS (See: Sales and Breeding Rules and USD Sales and Cross-Site Trading in the TOS).
No fundraising in RL$ is allowed, unless it is on behalf of an official 501 (c)(3) charity where the money goes directly to the organization, or with prior arrangement with the Aywas site owner and Aywas administration.
If you have a post/thread that breaks these rules, we expect you to remove the links and rephrase the post (if need be), or remove the entire post immediately following this news post.
All of the above is covered in the Site Rules section of the TOS:
"- not solicit any asset - whether points, pets, items - from any user without offering proper pay (begging)"
We felt the need to clarify that the above TOS rule does not only apply to site assets, and does in fact also apply to IRL assets also.
* Note: RL$ = Real Life Currencies or anything that can be exchanged for Real Life Currencies such as gift cards, etc.
Thank you for your cooperation!
- Mauri
Posted by Kyu & Mauri
(#1010) on Wed Apr 10, 2013 9:37pm
- Bones
(#250)
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Posted on: Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:07pm
I found the gofundme things to be annoying personally. Especially when it's a player that's not very active in the community because then it's like they just used Aywas. That's what the life help thing is for on this site. - chu
Posted on: Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:05pm
Personally I'd like to see this sorted out. Okay so it's not okay, but then someone in december got a note saying that it was okay to link a gofundme? I understand a no begging rule. I can also understand a "no buying stuff that's aywas-owned". However a simple "I need help, donate here if you want" in it's own thread, or in a banner should be fine. It's contained, it's nice, and it's not doing anything different than the 3729402 other sigs/dedicated posts that are doing the same about likes or other allowed offsite deals.
I admit, I do have a horse in this race, I have a medical condition that direly needs funds and I was going to put in a post/sig that would draw attention to it. However I believe that it can exist along with other such threads/posts that call for similar offsite activities.