Policy

Policy and Rules

Rules for Users

General rules:

1. Ponies.
2. Post in good faith, do not derail threads, and do not be massively disruptive of the experience of others.
3. Do not spam, please check the catalogue before posting a new thread, and have some respect for board topicality and posting quality.
4. Do not post anything that will either get us in trouble with our server host, or an FBI warrant.
5. All users must be over the age of 18 to use this site.

* possible changes, such as the addition of board specific rules, to come in the near future.

All posts and content are the responsibility of the poster, mlpol.net does not take responsibility for anything posted here.

Staff Rules

We the staff of mlpol do not ever want to become anything like those of certain other websites, therefore the following rules were laid out by the site owner, Atlas

1. No staff member shall use the information he obtains in his position on staff for personal gain, lulz, or to harass/humiliate a user or other staff members.
   • The information of the users is sacred and shall not be used outside of needs by administration, we don't even have access to IP addresses from the users, we keep no logs, not even error logs, outside of what the website provides us directly.
   • Using information for any purpose, including selling to others, data mining for malicious purposes, or for any reason are grounds for immediate removal from staff position, permanent banning from the site, and if the offense is serious enough, main staff will cooperate with law enforcement
2. Staff will maintain a level of transparency with the community
   • /mlpol/ is a community of like-minded individuals, we are not barbarians hyped up on ape testosterone
   • We are driven by a need to maintain this website, not by a need to steal your info and sell it to the highest bidder
   • If a thread is posted on /qa/ we strive to addressed within reaonable time, but at times we can fall short, but we try.
   • Staff found to deliberately delete threads or posts to avoid discussing important topics about the site can face punitive measures up to and including dismissal
   • All moderation decisions and bans are ultimately up to staff's discretion
3. Staff will take all community suggestions into account
   • As this is a community site and not a top-down dictatorship like some other sites user input is very important
   • Staff found to be deliberately removing community suggestions to avoid changes on the site or push their own agenda will be subject to punitive measures up to and including dismissal
4. Staff will never bow down to SJWs or CRT.
   • Staff will never bow to assblasted former staff members.
   • The community of this website are the masters here, and no amount of money, threats, DDOS, hack attacks, or other methods of coercion will every change that

FAQ:

This is just some information that is often requested by users worried about what the site is and who runs it

• How are IP addresses stored on mlpol.net?
  • IP addresses are hashed using BCrypt.
• What data are you keeping? even if you're ok, what about a hacker getting on the server?
  • Hashed IP address using BCrypt
  • Country of poster
  • The post itself
• What staff has administrative access to the server, and why?
  • PupperWoff: Current owner due to Atlas stepping down, Dev and Sysop
• What staff has ability to renew and keep site alive?
  • PupperWoff, Lotus, Elway and Stix
• Honorable mentions:
  • Atlas: super sexy former owner of mlpol.net former /pol/lack
  • fallenPineapple: Genius code merchant and former /mlp/, was instrumental to make all the beauty happen when it all began