RateMyDrawings Behavior Policy

Behavior & Content Policy

One of our goals on our community is to provide an environment where people feel safe, welcome, and free from abusive, disruptive or inappropriate behavior. We hope to provide members with an ability to express themselves and express their creativity while maintaining a respect for our community. Site administrators, moderators and staff members reserve the right to enforce our policy which can include deleting any user content and/or banning accounts or IP addresses.

APPROPRIATE CONTENT
The term "content" includes all user submitted content from usernames, profile information, artwork, forum posts, drawchat content, avatars, and private messages. Content may be flagged as inappropriate if it is unsuitable for our target audience (PG-13). Inappropriate content also includes any content that is disruptive to the services and operation of our website such as spam, flooding, or content aimed to deceive such as imitating a moderator. Examples of inappropriate content include but are not limited to offensive content, copyright, discrimination, harassment, or content just not suitable for our audience. If a user is found submitting any content deemed inappropriate the content will be removed, their account may be temporarily or permanently banned (all without warning), and in excessive cases IP addresses will be banned.

Discouraged content
We believe in people's right to free speech, but we will encourage and enforce a policy of interrupting content or discussions that turn unfriendly or aggressive. This includes any site content submitted by members.

Forum Rules
The following rules are to help keep our forums of value to readers.
- Stay on topic (within reason).
- Try not to duplicate recent topics (search to see if a topic was recently posted on your subject)
- Do not flood, spam, advertise, or post inappropriate links
- Only advertise other websites if they are on-topic and appropriate (violators may be banned). When following forum links, visit at your own risk.
- Do no imitate other members or moderators
- Do not discuss any illegal or inappropriate content

EFFORTLESS ARTWORK
On various parts of our website, artists are given the ability to express themselves and submit artwork. In our goal to sustain a level of quality that keeps our website of value to the community, we reserve the right to remove any artwork that suggests that little effort was made. Flagging artwork as "no effort" is at the discretion of site administrators, moderators or staff. We are not removing your artwork to prevent you from creating, but we politely ask that you honestly put effort into your artwork and use this as an opportunity to improve as an artist.

DRAWCHAT RULES
DrawChat is a live chat room. Like all live chat rooms, you will be exposed to instant content by other users that has minimal filtering. Like all internet chat rooms we recommend all users ensure they are mature or have parental permission if 13 Years or younger. Our chat rooms may be silently monitored by moderators or members may have permission to enforce chat room rules which include temporary or permanent bans.
- No Scribbling/drawing over other user's drawings or inappropriate content.
- No swearing or offensive chat
- No harassing other users or moderators
- If chat discussions are borderline inappropriate, whether by inappropriate language or just subjects of discussion not suitable for our members as deemed by moderators, a user can be kicked or banned.
- Moderators have the final say on what is appropriate or not and can ban without supplying justification. By using drawchat you agree to these conditions. If you remain friendly, enjoy the chatrooms and maintain mature appropriate conversations then you will enjoy drawchat and have no problems.

As visitors or members of our community, we welcome you and aim to provide a friendly community where you feel free to express yourself and grow as artists. Our rules are set in place not to restrict, but to encourage every members ability to contribute in the most safe and friendly manner possible. Thank you to all our members and visitors for respecting our goals of creating a welcoming online community. Please be sure to also read our terms and conditions of use and privace policy for further information on ways we keep our community safe, friendly and appropriate.