It occurred to me that our SL is being abused and it appears that common sense is not so common anymore, as well as decency. Specially lately when people think that there is no one watching. So listen up.

Here are a few ground rules for SL:

1) Avoid posting large images (both dimensions and file size).

As if pictures itself isn't bad enough, you have to consider that Shout lite is a sort of chat mechanism. It's ok to post a picture here and there but you don't HAVE to post 50 million pictures in the SL and/or pictures that takes 5 monitors combined to view that picture. When I say here and there, that means very seldom.

2) Avoid pictures containing and/or depicting anything discriminatory/offensive; Religious, Sexual, Racist, etc.

3) Avoid gory, inappropriate, and grotesque pictures. As well as any sexually suggestive material.

4) Avoid the use of profanity (may it be English and/or Tagalog, in any/every dialect) as well as racial slurs, religion slurs, etc.

5) If possible, avoid relaying personal information over SL. This is to protect YOUR privacy. Don't go complaining to us when YOU are getting stalked or something similar when you blurt out your number to every Juan and Maria in SL.

6) Avoid changing the font style of SL. Yes it is very annoying. Sometimes people make mistakes but it's very obvious when it is intentional.

This means that you should CLOSE all of your TAGS when you are posting in SL so that you don't ruin the formatting of SL.

7) Flooding is severely disencouraged. We understand it lags sometimes but this is very annoying and highly discouraged.

8) Smileys are cute but when you have 50 billion smileys in a post, it's horribly annoying. So I urge everyone to keep your smileys to an optimum amount. Enough to convey your message but not enough to ruin the SL ambience.

This can also be applied to flooding smileys

Last but the most important rule:
9) Enjoy :)


A simple reminder, a SL post can ONLY contain 240 characters (That includes tags). If you go beyond 240 characters, you will risk ruining the SL formatting through unclosed tags.



Breaking one of these ground rules is subject to penalization. As well as we reserve the right to change these rules at any given time and/or update it. We also reserve the right to give out penalties as a result of an infraction of these ground rules as we see fit.

We don't aim to stifle and/or control the flow of your conversation but It's simple ethics, and people tend to forget ethics. Remember the SL is for everyone, Let's keep our SL clean.

Ignorance of the rules excuses no one

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to where sleep goes, off it goes, nobody knows. How it shows, only he would know. Why is it so?

katakot nman to buti nabasa ko
rule 1- 8 nviolate ko ata
dito tinamaan talaga ako :
"Specially lately when people think that there is no one watching."
ge po papakabait na ko (muna) nyahahaha

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tama kayo sir homura...

naalala ko nga noon merong mga girls pic dun (mejo sexy pero karamihan magaganda) na nakalagay sa SL... kilala ko kung sino ang promotor pero ang tanong ko e: does the one that i've mentioned earlier falls under the "sexually suggestive material" you've said??

sana lang mabasa ito ng mga tambay ng SL...

salamat sa reminders sir. homura

antagal na nito salamat nman at may nakapansin din kala ko ntutulog na kayo sa kangkungan...

SL will be a happy place to visit again...

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naiinis ka? dapat lang kontrbida ako e!!!

Copy.

Thanks for reminding us about the rules and guidelines..surely it would create a more harmonious exchanges in SL.

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Life full of stories. PiNkLiFe

Nakikita ko nga ito na maraming nag po-post ng picture dito sa SL. I tried using this though, kaso wala namang pumapansin sa akin, Kapag bago ka deadma ka lang. Sometimes puro nonsense naman pinag-uusapan.

Buti nabasa ko eto agad.So far wala pa naman akong vina-violate dito pero meron kang umaabuso sa SL.Hope everybody will be responsible for their actions.thanks for reminding us..

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buti naman boss Homura nagpots ka na ng ganito atleast alam na naming mga tdpers ang rules..esp. mga tambay ng SL

I admit that I am a violator of SL's rules.

I've done a number so far, about half of the aforementioned.

We're simply having fun but thanks for the reminder anyway.

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chuvaness.

oh well, hindi ako affected ng mga pics na ipino-post sa SL kase hinaharang ng firewall namin. ngayon, wala na talaga akong SL sa office and it's a very sad thing. though sometimes i still go online, during weekends and late nights, i still make it a point not to violate the rules. i apologize though if there are times when i spam the line: to punish and enslave!!!

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i was an atheist until i discovered i was god

salamat sa paalala ser Homura...

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sir suggestion po pwede ba natin bawasan yung maximun character na pwede ipost sa SL like 35-50.

pag may limitation di na tyo mkakapgpost ng pix from outside ung mga resident smyley lng talga mgagamit ntin

i think nman masasabi n natin yung msg natin in 35-50 characters?

pwede po ba yun?

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Uh oh! Rules! Pero salamat po dito. I agree with some of the rules.

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tenx for that info..
kya ako dina ntambay sa SL
pero mybe this tym il be bak..hehehe

^_^

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..Now I'm trying to escape
The misery..

This is noted. Hope all will also comply to this rules.

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" It's not enough to AIM. You must HIT! "