We are aware of the issue with the groups. There is no need to mail us.
We are working on tracking down the individuals who did this. Even if you aren't logged into Tengaged, we are able to track your IP and match it with a user account. While it may take us a bit longer, all users involved will be punished - even if you simply edit the image without posting porn, you may be permanently banned so we suggest you stop.
Any assistance with this case would be appreciated.
NOTE: This does not mean people who posted porn will be unbanned in any way!!! We were referring to hwest and zim who post blogs saying "we posted porn" in one of our 800 blogs.
Since this has been a problem in the past few days, we are going to unban the users who said this, but in the future, please know that if you say "I posted porn in one of my blogs" or "I posted porn somewhere on this site," you will be permanently banned. We will not search for it, nor will we take "it was a joke" as an excuse. We have 13-year-olds here, and we simply cannot have people on this site who do these things.
Additionally, we will take "I have a multi" or "this person was on my account" at face value, even if we don't see one on your IP.
In other words, if you say you did something, we're going to punish you as if you did.
Please see the addition of a rule about blacklisting on our profile:
17. Blacklisting - If we feel that you need a temporary break from blogging (or tengaged needs a break from your blogs) for whatever reason, we will blacklist you. This means that your blogs will not be visible from the blogs page. We have reserve the right to do this for as long as we deem necessary. Reasons for blacklisting include - sexually explicit blogs, threatening to post porn, posting the same blog multiple times in a row, spewing nastiness toward tengaged users, moderation, or randomize, etc. http://www.tengaged.com/user/Tengaged_Moderation
Also, we would like to ask that you do not contact individual moderators about issues. They have been instructed to only give official responses via this account and will not answer your mail on their personal accounts. There are now 7 people with moderation access, and it gets confusing if you tell us "Eric told me this," "Noel told me that," etc. We need it all visible on one account. This also helps us avoid issues with those who impersonate moderators (which, for the record, is banworthy if it's done in a way that can harm the site).
We receive more than 60 messages per day, so your message will be answered in the order it's received. Do not mail us more than once. And do not curse at us and insult us when you're asking for our help. It may cause us to ignore your message entirely.
Thank you.
EDIT: Regarding contacting known mods: If you see porn or something that is dangerous to the tengaged public, you can contact the known mod. Just not for little things, like "why is this person banned?" "she's spamming in my game?" "he called me a ****************"
As most of you know, bans due to the posting of off-site links have become increasingly common on this site. Nothing we have in the rules is changing, but we would like to clarify to avoid future issues.
If you haven't already, please familiarize yourself with the rules in our profile, and check for updates periodically. Nothing radical will change without a blog, but we may clarify rules:
With this in mind, here are the current rules that relate to this issue:
10. Porn OR direct link to porn -
FIRST OFFENSE = PERMANENT BAN
3. You are solely responsible for your conduct and any data, text, information, screen names, graphics, photos, profiles, audio and video clips, links ("Content") that you submit, post, and display on the Tengaged.com service. This means, if you post a link to a chatroom and that chatroom contains inappropriate comment by you OR other users, you may punished for that material.
As you can see, we already had a clear rule regarding content posted in chatrooms, but there it is.
The main point of this is, and please READ THIS CAREFULLY:
If you post a link to a chat or another type of comment page (e.g., three words), you are putting yourself at risk. Right now, there is a trend of people trolling these types of pages with user-generated content and posting porn and other banworthy materials. KNOWING THIS, if you link to one of these pages, it is likely that yours will also have something like this posted on it.
It's a shame it has to be this way, but we have to strongly advise against posting these types of links - and if you do, you'll be held responsible IF the content is posted while your blog is live.
In other words, while we're not banning tinychat, etc., from tengaged.... it's very likely that someone will try to get you banned if you post one of these links.
HOWEVER, in the case of sandizzle, we have looked at the time on the screenshot we received with the blog on it, as well as what we saw in the chat itself, and have been able to conclude with certainty that he did indeed remove the blog before this material was posted. Therefore, we WILL be removing his ban.
We hope that all of you understand this rule clearly now, and avoid posting links that may come back to haunt you.
I know I've said this many times in the past, but I feel as if I need to remind you all being that there has been some recent incidents.
DO NOT GIVE YOUR PASSWORD OUT TO ANYONE AT ANY TIME.
If Tengaged_Moderation asks you for your password, DO NOT GIVE IT TO THEM.
If Randomize ask you for your password, DO NOT GIVE IT TO HIM.
Do not give your password out to ANYONE.
If you happen to give it out, you are 100% responsible for what happens on your account.
If your account gets hacked and porn is posted on your account, your account will get perm banned, and you must contact: admin@tengaged.com to get your account back.
We just wanted to let you know that we too have no idea what's going on with Rookies. As it states in our profile, we do not have access to anything related to the format of the games, so we're in the same boat as all of you. If we find out anything, we will let you know. In the meantime, you may be able to help Randomize by sending screenshots of the exact issues you're having within the games.
