from alex@insomnia.ac
reply-to alex@insomnia.ac
to alex@insomnia.ac
date Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:42 AM
subject Forum Rules Update
mailed-by eastman.dreamhost.com

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The following is an email sent to you by an administrator of "Insomnia". If this message is spam, contains abusive or other comments you find offensive please contact the webmaster of the board at the following address:

alex@insomnia.ac

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Message sent to you follows:
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In an effort to cut out most if not all the random jokers/alt accounts, etc., and to ensure that new users who sign up to the forum take the entire thing with at least a certain modicum of seriousness, I am enacting the following changes to the forum rules. My initial idea was to require all new users to submit some kind of article or review, but then I thought that screening those would have taken up too much of my time, so I am going with a far simpler solution instead. So this is how it will be:


CURRENT USERS*
Whoever wants to maintain his account on Insomnia should sent $10 via PayPal to alex@insomnia.ac by the end of March. On April 1st I will deactivate the accounts of everyone who has not done this. Make sure you make a note of your username in your payment — failure to do this will result in your account being deactivated nevertheless, in which case you will have to send me another payment to reactivate it. If any of this is too hard to understand and you decide to email me about it, your account will be banned for ever, regardless of how much money you send me.


NEW USERS
These are the steps you need to take to register a new account:

1. Register the account as usual

2. Send me the payment (noting the username the payment is for)

3. Wait for the account to be activated — without emailing me (however long that might take)

If step 2 is not performed within 24 hours of step 1, the account will de deleted.


BANNED USERS

Nothing for you to do here. Just enjoy being stupid.



*Whoever has made major contributions to the site (i.e. everyone listed on the site's "Contact" page) is exempt from this policy.