May I raise a separate issue? Well, you obviously don't have time to say no before this gets posted, so I will anyway.
Are the TOU worth the bytes it takes to display them?
However, you subject yourself to possible suspension and/or termination if you do any of the following:
* Provide untrue or incorrect information about yourself during the Silicon Investor Registration Process.
* Use Silicon Investor for illegal purposes or for the transmission of material that is unlawful, harassing, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, tortuous, improper or otherwise objectionable.
* Use Silicon Investor in any way that infringes or may infringe the intellectual property rights, copyrights or other rights of another. For example, you may not copy and paste a press release into a post on Silicon Investor.
* Use Silicon Investor for the transmission of junk mail, spam, chain letters, advertising or unsolicited mass distribution of e-mail.
The SI Administrators may remove post(s) or terminate your account for these or any other violations of the Terms of Use, so make sure you read the whole thing.
Well, we had a recent demonstration of what the "spamming" clause was worth.
Message 19836981
Message 19833374
The claim is made that it's punishable, but then magically a 3-day sentence turns into "time served"- -a bit over a day, I believe. And now you say I had nothing to do with the commutation.
The words "vulgar, obscene" also occur in the TOU. If you check the TOU violation reports, you'll find some of those. Yet nothing actually happens. Are we allowed a certain number of violations within a set period of time? If so, how many and how long? Or is that clause simply worthless and we can write post after posts that consists of nothing but vulgarity and expect no consequences?
Inquiring minds want to know.
I've tried to stay clear of TOU violations. Am I making a mistake that simply cramps my style? |
