News 1-11 Up!.... Buzz Day

[Duke of Earl]

Today's news is your standard pet day, but also has an interesting paragraph about suspensions....

Good job TNT! (I think)

[-Ducky-]

Today we are implementing a new way to deal with people who break certain Terms and Conditions. If you break more minor rules, your account may only be SUSPENDED for up to 72 hours (rather than frozen completely). During your suspension you will not have access to any part of your account. After the suspension period is over, your account will be returned to you.
That said, depending on your account history and which rule you break, you could still get frozen immediately (a "suspension" is not "automatic"), and you WILL be frozen for breaking the rules more than once. Hopefully this "second chance" will make things more understandable and fairer for everyone.

We have another new feature going into place today, too. Our monitors now have the ability to "lock" topics on the Neoboards. This means you may see some topics with a lock icon and the reason the topic was locked posted next to them. It'd be a good idea to use these locked topics as a refresher course on our Terms and Conditions so you don't end up suspended or frozen. (Of course, anyone posting topics simply to get them locked will be frozen. Intentionally distracting our monitors from people who are *really* breaking the rules will be not be tolerated.)

personally, i think its probably one of the best ideas yet.

GREAT JOB TNT!!!

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[Pokemon Kid]

Awsomeness! Lockage! No more spamage!

[CrewWolf]

2nd Chance Freezings and locked topics on the neoboards! *faints and dies from a strange combination of shock and happiness*

[Duke of Earl]

Unfortunately it doesn't do anything for my frozen account (due to "innappropriate name")

[Morningstar]

Today we are implementing a new way to deal with people who break certain Terms and Conditions. If you break more minor rules, your account may only be SUSPENDED for up to 72 hours (rather than frozen completely). During your suspension you will not have access to any part of your account. After the suspension period is over, your account will be returned to you.
That said, depending on your account history and which rule you break, you could still get frozen immediately (a "suspension" is not "automatic"), and you WILL be frozen for breaking the rules more than once. Hopefully this "second chance" will make things more understandable and fairer for everyone.

We have another new feature going into place today, too. Our monitors now have the ability to "lock" topics on the Neoboards. This means you may see some topics with a lock icon and the reason the topic was locked posted next to them. It'd be a good idea to use these locked topics as a refresher course on our Terms and Conditions so you don't end up suspended or frozen. (Of course, anyone posting topics simply to get them locked will be frozen. Intentionally distracting our monitors from people who are *really* breaking the rules will be not be tolerated.)

Gee, think the Neopets staff might be listening in on our conversations? I do.

Thanks for listening to us, TNT!!!!!!

[Zero!]

*sniff* THIS IS THE BEST BUZZ DAY EVER!!!


Awwwww! :3

[Kostya]

Today we are implementing a new way to deal with people who break certain Terms and Conditions. If you break more minor rules, your account may only be SUSPENDED for up to 72 hours (rather than frozen completely). During your suspension you will not have access to any part of your account. After the suspension period is over, your account will be returned to you.
That said, depending on your account history and which rule you break, you could still get frozen immediately (a "suspension" is not "automatic"), and you WILL be frozen for breaking the rules more than once. Hopefully this "second chance" will make things more understandable and fairer for everyone.

We have another new feature going into place today, too. Our monitors now have the ability to "lock" topics on the Neoboards. This means you may see some topics with a lock icon and the reason the topic was locked posted next to them. It'd be a good idea to use these locked topics as a refresher course on our Terms and Conditions so you don't end up suspended or frozen. (Of course, anyone posting topics simply to get them locked will be frozen. Intentionally distracting our monitors from people who are *really* breaking the rules will be not be tolerated.)

Gee, think the Neopets staff might be listening in on our conversations? I do.

Thanks for listening to us, TNT!!!!!!

'Course they are. They are probably reading this post right now. Why do you think that on Lord Nword's board, someone posted alot of people with.. bad, usernames, and in like, 10 minutes, they were frozen. See my point?

[Scholastic]

Most of the Buzz picture on Art Gallery is freaking amazing. o_O Especially the Faerie Buzz one.

[ahoteinrun]

They're sounding a lot like PPT.

Second chances on being banned...
Locking...

Hrm. *squiggles eyebrows* Interesting.

[heavysuit]

I kinda like the baby buzz.It's unique,and I like how it's just a larvae.

[Cranberry]

I love that they've implemented a warning system! That's something a lot of us have been wanting for ages now.

Of course, I still worry about my account -- I have an older computer, and the thing I'm most worried about is being frozen for "cheating" on flash games because it runs slow (this happened before and I got unfrozen after three months, but I worry it'll happen again). I doubt "cheating on flash games" is considered a "minor rule." I wish they'd let us know exactly what warrants a suspension as opposed to an automatic freezing.

It is definitely a step in the right direction, though!

[DiscordantNote]

Huzzah! Perhaps the Neoboards can be redeemed, and so will the stereotype of immediate freezings! Three days is a bit short of a suspension though...maybe they should make it a week instead.

[vtothec]

I love that they've implemented a warning system! That's something a lot of us have been wanting for ages now.

Of course, I still worry about my account -- I have an older computer, and the thing I'm most worried about is being frozen for "cheating" on flash games because it runs slow (this happened before and I got unfrozen after three months, but I worry it'll happen again). I doubt "cheating on flash games" is considered a "minor rule." I wish they'd let us know exactly what warrants a suspension as opposed to an automatic freezing.

It is definitely a step in the right direction, though!

Yep I understand I also think they should let us know what constitutes a 'minor' offence but im very happy that Neo have implemented this sytem instead of going straight for the freeze

[plushie]

I personnally dont *love* it, sure it IS a great idea but its gonna be hard to get used to, and there are still bunches of questions...

Are there still warnings?
Is my account frozen or suspened?
What rules are minor?

a bunch of blurry spots for me right now o.O