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Discussions => General Discussion => Topic started by: gonZo on October 21, 2010, 12:18:27 PM
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We've updated the rules a little...
In the Prohibited Content section, we've added three models whose pictures can't be posted here: K@ren Pitt1em@n, SubGirlie and Philly Mall Girl.
Also, photos of Ashley Jones (which used to be prohibited) are NOT prohibited any more. We thought Ashley Jones was an alias of Barbie Griffin, but we were evidently mistaken.
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As of Jan. 1, 2011, we're modifying the 'post in the appropriate forum' policy to ALLOW up to ONE promotional/update post per user per week in the General forum. If any single user wants to post more than a single such post each week, all posts after the first MUST be put in the Updates forum which was created for that purpose.
This is intended to allow webmasters and others who like to promote their sites here to continue to do so without having an excess of such notices in the General forum (as some users have mentioned happens from time to time). This policy applies to ALL users who regularly promote external sites. Thanks very much. :)
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Update Jan 25, 2011: per her request, no pix/links/mentions/etc... of C@rla P1vonski may be posted anywhere at the BEA. The rules are being edited accordingly. Thanks.
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More rule updates, effective right now...
- Images and discussion of Wendy Fiore aka Wendy4 aka CPG aka Chicago Party Girl are no longer prohibited.
- Discussions of paysite consumer issues are now exempt from the "no imported controversy from other sites" rule.
- We clarified the language of the rule prohibiting the posting of member content from paysites.
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Due to a misunderstanding on my part, the rule governing the posting of member-only content from paysites got slightly mangled during last week's rules revision. We have corrected it to read like this:
Do not post, offer, or solicit any of the following types of content:
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Passwords, hacks, hidden links, or any other illicit means
of obtaining members-only content from any site.
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We've added a prohibition against the posting of photographs of "Danielle the Hooters Girl".
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Effective as of today: May 3, 2012, unmorphed images owned by ChloeVevrier.com may not be posted or linked to by request of the copyright holder.
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No idea what's going around, but we've been noticing a lot of general rudeness lately and frankly it detracts from the qualities that make this forum the community it's become.
Before folks start moaning about that (fictional) 'freedom of speech' thing... anyone who's been here for a while knows we go out of our way to let folks express negative opinions about almost anything... provided that they do so in an adult manner. If anything, we've been rightly accused of letting some repeat offenders get away with too much 'acting out' for too long.
Look: you can think anything you want to about any model, user, subject, website, etc... but you may NOT lash out without restraint any time the urge strikes. If you want to do that you can do so elsewhere: the net is rife with cesspool forums where flame wars are the norm. That's NOT what the BEA Forum is about.
So: if you don't like the way a model looks, or you don't believe someone's telling the truth about something, or you dislike the manner in which a model or website produces their content... that's all fine... you CAN express those opinions (please remember that opinions are not necessarily facts) BUT you may only do so if you can manage to do it in a mature, considered fashion.
Random insults about appearance, borderline libelous comments about behavior, spreading vicious rumors without even a shred of proof, negatively expounding upon someone's character when you've not ever had a single word of dialog with them... all of those things will have consequences.
SO PLEASE: think before you post. Anonymity isn't a license to be an asshat.
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I'm gonZo, and I approved this message.
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I've adjusted the auto-word-censor to automatically reformat youtube and dailymotion links to suppress display of related videos.
It's against the rules to link to a youtube or dailymotion page whose related videos include any prohibited content, so lately, we've been encouraging users to use link formats that don't display related videos. Starting today, you no longer have to reformat your links; the software will (attempt to) do it for you. If it misfires or causes other problems when you're posting links, please let me know.
THIS CHANGE HAS BEEN UNDONE DUE TO PERFECTLY FORESEEABLE PROBLEMS WHICH I DIDN'T COMPLETELY FORESEE. MY APOLOGIES FOR THE INCOVENIENCE. - gonZo
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Over the past couple months, we've received some complaints via PM about the posting habits of other users... and that's fine: if you've got a complaint, concern or suggestion we're here to listen and respond. No one gets in trouble for complaining and no grudges are held about it either... it's OK. Of course, sometimes there's nothing to be done (i.e.: no 'fix') for what someone's complaining about based on the Rules and sometimes, the complaint itself is suspect for one reason or another. I'd like to take a moment to generically address two complaints that we've recently received:
"User X posts too many of a certain kind of image" ... leaving aside the irony of the fact that this complaint almost always comes from a user who posts little or nothing themselves, it's reasonable to express such a view, but usually, no rules are being broken. Some users have strong preferences (i.e.: vintage, or always implanted blondes, or whatever) and that's what they like to post. AND THAT'S FINE! Yes, some other user might not like so much of that stuff, but this is a community made up of many different individuals with varying tastes so it's unlikely that anyone's gonna dig every single item that somebody else posts. Semi-related: it used to be fashionable to bemoan that the forum has more BB content in it and less BE content than it used to... to which I can only reply: SO POST MORE OF WHAT YOU LIKE/WANT/MISS (within the Rules of course). This place is what YOU make it... if you want to see more of something in particular, why not start posting some of that stuff yourself to inspire interest/activity from others instead of complaining that somebody else is posting 'too much' of what they like?
"User Y keeps putting up posts with identical/modified filenames" ...yes, I like to save pix too, and yes, having lots of different attachments all with the same exact filename (i.e.: image.jpg or something like that) is a bit of a PITA: it obliterates the original filename (which can be useful information) AND it requires us to manually edit the filename during each save to avoid file overwrites. HOWEVER, it's hardly the end of the world: isn't it better to have the images/contributions/activity/participation (even with F-ed up filenames) than to have apathy/lethargy/inactivity? For those who've missed the threads about this, some of the renaming is a result of the fact that some folks access the forum from iOS devices and for whatever reason, Safari uploads from them get renamed (this doesn't happen when using Safari under MacOSX itself of course). Maybe it'll get fixed in the future or maybe not... but regardless, I'll take a misnamed file instead of no file at all any day and think most folks here would agree.
OK, that's it... I just wanted to address these two issues, since we get PMs about them from time to time. Thanks! :)
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Just a note to bring this to everyone's attention:
There's a new "PM CUSTOMER CARE" link in the tabs at the top of every forum page. This is the main way users can get in touch with BEA support staff FROM NOW ON. Basically: us forum mods are the point of contact for forum-related issues: issues with posts or threads, other users, etc...
Use the "PM CUSTOMER CARE" to contact the BEA for anything outside the forum, including paid memberships, gallery set-up/access/FTP, billing, affiliate/advertising, etc...
Thanks. :)
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Over the weekend, we posted changes to section 3 of the Forum Rules (http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?action=rules). In addition to a few small changes intended to make the existing Chi1d Pornography rules more comprehensive, we added new restrictions about the posting of links to ov3rflowingbra and thevalkyri3. Going forward, links to html pages at those sites are prohibited. You may only link directly to specific stories on those sites that fully comply with the BEA Forum Rules.
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A rule was added on April 21, 2013 prohibiting the promotion/linking of forums or sites directly competitive with the BEA Forum, and the rules are currently being amended to expand the prohibition against images from Limor Blockman's site to ALL pix of her (and links to pix of course).
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Two separate behind-the-scenes incidents this past week made the following item by Jonathan Nolan seem all the more relevant and timely when I happened to run across it in The New Yorker:
"We don't live in the information age. That would be an insult to information, which, on some level, is supposed to inform. We live in the communication age. Ten billion fingers fumbling away, unautocorrecting emails, texts, and tweets; each one an opportunity to offend, alienate, aggrieve, all in public, and all at light speed. The misinterpretation age. Take the language itself. Texting in English is like propelling a gilded horse-drawn carraige onto the interstate. Subtlety, nuance, and ambiguity were luxuiries of a less frantic era. And irony, a supposed hallmark feature, has become an invisible, odorless menace. Irony now condemns all of us to imagine that every email or text might actually, secretly, be poking fun at us."
By web standards, the BEA forum has been around for a long time: since 1997 or so, or "150 years in internet time" according to PedonBio's estimate, which feels about right. And this community is rare among similar 'niche' ones in that here, an active user who's been posting for five full years is still a decade shy of our grizzled veterans. So: we've all been here a long time and many of us have known each other for many years... I feel like I know some of you at least as well as some folks I interact with offline every day.
We all share a common fetish of course... our raison d'etre. Or more accurately: a group of fetishes, all involving secondary sex characteristics of the female of our species. But beyond that, many of us also share our joys and disappointments: from the daily ups and downs we each experience to more significant events: marriages and divorces, deaths and births, legal problems, sexual conquests, illnesses, loneliness, professional accomplishments, bedbugs, colonoscopies, etc... you name it. So we come here to talk with each other, and assist each other, and argue and commiserate and emote and complain and brag and mourn.
Of course, almost all of the interaction in this community takes place via display screens and keyboards... most of what we tell to and hear from each other is first handicapped by the limitations of ASCII: letters on a screen... little clusters of pixels huddled together as if for warmth. Add to that the fact that electronic communication has become such a casual and commonplace thing for most folks and you compound the problem even further: the nonchalance that accompanies making a forum post... the typing without thinking about how our words might fall on the ears of others ...it just makes for a recipe for misunderstandings.
So this past week, four users in two pairs got into this: they each experienced the consequences of the limitations that typed text places on all our interaction here. All four are intelligent decent folks... not the sort to get into needless scuffles or the type who spar for sport. Despite this, one of each pair felt themselves impacted enough by the words of someone else to contact the forum moderators about it. And in both cases, neither of the posters who gave the perceived offense had any idea whatsoever that they'd done so, let alone intended to cause harm as far as I could tell. All it took was a few casual words: a brief comment... one of dozens a user might make online each day... and that was enough to bend someone else seriously out of shape.
I've got no magic bullet for this: there's no policy we can enact to prevent it, beyond the discretion given to mods by the Owner to step in when something happens that's not explicitly covered in the rules. And we do this: when absolutely necessary we do get involved in conflicts between users, though we're loathe to do so and undertake it only as a last resort. Some users reasonably resent this intrusion, and others are prone to requesting intervention even when it's unwarranted.
But we're not parents... that's not our role here and I'm sure that none of you would want it to be (neither would we ;)). So, while we may step in when poor communication, misinterpretation and actual intentional arguments get out of hand, everyone here is presumed to be an adult and as such, everyone ought to be able to resolve their own issues most of the time. To avoid these mountains-from-molehills events in the first place, I can only suggest that folks really think about what they're saying before they hit the 'Post' button: whether making a casual comment or when vociferously disagreeing with another user about something vital. In either case, words have power and when they're only lightly considered or somewhat unclear, you never know where that power will be directed or how it will be received.
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Three changes have been made to the Forum Rules (http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?action=rules), effective June 25, 2013...
1) IN THE PREAMBLE: The rule establishing the permanence of posted content has been clarified. As previously stated, all posts by all users become permanent content of the BEA forum 24 hours after posting. Posts of user-owned copyrighted content are treated the same way: if you're an artist or model displaying your work, or you're promoting a website in our public/free forum, posting your copyrighted content here grants the BEA perpetual license to display your post and its content in the free/public forum.
2) IN SECTION 5: The rule that prohibited messages about or links to solicitations for donations/gifts has been relaxed. Such posts are now generally permitted, though any solicitation message or link that the moderators consider to be suspect, inappropriate, or detrimental to the BEA will be removed without discussion or debate. When you post solicitation messages or links, you accept the possibility that they may be deleted without explanation. Deleted solicitations will not be counted as rule violations.
3) IN SECTION 5: Supplementing the rule prohibiting the import of external drama into our forum, we are formalizing a long-standing unwritten rule that prohibits you from doing anything that calls outside attention to the BEA. Specifically, do not invite models/celebs to visit the forum to see what's been posted about them, or tell third parties about what has been posted here, or do anything else that calls outsider attention to the BEA. Maintaining a low profile has helped to keep our community online for many years. If you take it upon yourself to raise the BEA's profile in defiance of this rule, you can expect negative repercussions, regardless of your intent or the outcome of any given incident. To paraphrase Fight Club, the first rule of the BEA is Do not talk about the BEA.
Thanks,
Palomine and gonZo
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Due to circumstances beyond our control, all photos and discussion about the model Xena Kai aka Kai Lansangan are now prohibited.
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Starting today, we're switching to a different type of temporary ban.
The old ban type would lock you out of the forum, damage your BEA session cookies, and leave you with no easy way to get information about your ban.
The new ban type will allow you to log into the forum, but you will not be able to post forum messages, send PMs, or enter the Chat. The forum will display a message on every page telling you that you're banned, and providing info about the cause and duration of your ban.
Permanent bans will remain as before: you'll be completely locked out of the forum.
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the mods
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Not strictly a rule change, but the general guidelines for posting requests to the Morph Request forum have been revised. Please have a look here: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php/topic,9989574.msg10229005.html#msg10229005 Thanks! :)
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Circumstances make it necessary for us to add a model to the prohibited list: all photos of "Noelle M" are prohibited for the foreseeable future because she is under 18 in many of them.
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The site rules will be updated shortly to explain that images/links depicting subjects clothed in garments that advertise their compliance with religious conventions (nun's habits, burkas or abayas, etc...) are not permitted UNLESS it's absolutely clear that the subject is portraying a character dressed in a costume (i.e.: an actress, pro model, cosplayer, etc...). Thanks.
Added later: since it came up in another thread as a surprise to someone, let us reiterate the fact already spelled out in the rules/faq and mentioned hundreds of times over the years: if a user is under a temp ban, any attempt by them to participate in spite of that ban by ANY means will result in their temp ban automatically being converted to a permanent ban without discussion or debate. If a user breaks enough rules or misbehaves badly enough to get temp banned, they're well advised to simply cool their jets and wait until it's over, at which point they're welcome to participate once more with no hard feelings. However, if they choose instead to participate under another name/by proxy/whatever, then they will immediately find themselves permanently unwelcome here. We hope everyone will remember this particular bit of the Owner's rules. Thanks.
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This is not a notice of a change to the rules. However, we're urging everyone to go re-read them... new users who may have clicked their consent to abide by them without actually reading them, and long-time users too, some of whom have absorbed them mostly by seeing them enforced in the forum over time.
We ask everyone to go actually take the five minutes to read the Rules: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?action=rules and the FAQ: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php/topic,9987229.0.html (first post in that thread) because a good portion of our very finite time is spent explaining parts of the Rules/FAQ after a rule has been broken, or to clarify misinformation offered by one user to another (usually well-intentioned, but often wrong nonetheless) or to answer questions and/or respond to requests that the Rules/FAQ themselves already clearly explain.
There are just a few mods here for all the users and all the posts in this large, long-lived forum. We are volunteers, not full or even part-time paid staffers. Every time that we have to fix/explain/answer something that's already covered in the Rules/FAQ it leaves us that much less time to deal with more urgent matters, some of which impact the safety of this forum and the community of users that depend on it.
Imagine how you'd feel if you had to to repeat yourself (to explain a rule or answer a question) hundreds of times (as with the 1-1-1 rule) or even just dozens of times (as with some other rules or questions) when the relevant info (the Rules/FAQ) had already been shared countless times before. We're not bitching about this... we mod here because we want to, because we feel it's worth our time... but it's not too much to ask that people take five minutes to refresh their understanding of what they've already promised to abide by, is it?
Thanks! :)
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Just a note to remind all users that the pinned (sticky) threads permanently located at the top of each sub-forum often contain vital info that you're expected to know about, such as changes to rules and/or site policy. So PLEASE open and read ANY pinned thread if you see it's been edited/updated since the last time you read it (the little blue "new" tag appears next to the thread title in the sub-forum subject listing).
It's necessary that everyone who uses our forum are all on the same page about important items, so please keep yourself up-to-date with the pinned theads. Thanks. :)
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These changes and simplifications have been applied to the Forum Rules:
- The prohibition against content from my$pa¢e and web$hot$ has ended, and has been removed from the rules. However, all existing forum rules (about age, privacy, etc.) apply to content obtained from those sites.
- The rule prohibiting Daktari Lorenz content now includes a linked list of Daktari's models.
- Juggmaster and Abbie Montrose photos, which were previously prohibited by individual rules, have been rolled into the "Do not post the following content in any form" list.
- Prohibited models have been reorganized into easier-to-read lists.
- The spelling of "Veronika Black" has been corrected to read "Veronica Black".
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Just a note to mention that we've renamed the Morph Request forum to just Morphs (and edited the description) since it's where morphs of all kinds are posted, not simply morph requests. All our morphers are welcome to create new morph threads/posts in the Morph forum with or without a morph request.
Also, we've added a new top-level forum called Sightings ...as you'd guess, it's for real-world BB sightings by users (not for 'sightings' on tv or in movies, which still belong in VCR Alerts). Please post any new sightings stories here, and as time permits, we'll move existing sightings threads into this forum as well.
Finally, as time permits, we're going to move all the old VCR Alerts-type posts in the very earliest parts of the General Forum (where they were posted before a separate VCR Alerts forum existed) into the VCR Alerts forum. Of course, most of these old alerts are somewhat moot, but they might be useful as reference/in searches and some are bound to contain still-working links. For now, we have no plans to rename this forum to DVR Alerts... we know no one uses VCRs anymore, but we'll leave it as-is for nostalgia reasons. :)
Thanks! :)
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This is not notice of a change to the rules, but simply an announcement.
Salem has generously agreed to give of his time help us out with some of the housekeeping chores that accumulate throughout the forum. Specifically, he's going to help with thread merges and with moving misplaced threads to better locations (i.e.: basically, everything used to get posted in the General Forum years ago, before we had separate forums for Sightings, VCR Alerts, etc...). As we've done from time to time with other users, we've provided him with the tools/access needed to accomplish these specific tasks, so please feel free to submit any thread merge requests, etc... to salem directly if you like.
Of course/as always, for all rule violations, please contact gonZo or myself via PM or the 'Report to Moderator' link in each post. Thanks very much. :)
Edited July, 2015: as has been mentioned elsewhere, users salem, rtpoe and SwitcherX have agreed to be appointed as "Watchmen" ...details are here: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php/topic,9992557.msg10318306.html#msg10318306
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We've been making a few tweaks prior to an upcoming upgrade, so we're happy to announce the latest improvements:
The maximum size of forum post attachments has been doubled to 3MB.
Attachments can now also be .avi, .wmv, .mov, .mpg, .mpeg, .mp4 and .mp3 format files.
We're hoping this will be convenient for users who'd otherwise have to go to the trouble of using an external filehost for short video clips or very high resolution images. Of course, as with anything you download, please exercise common sense/caution and remember that all the existing Rules still apply regardless of file type.
Thanks! -the BEA Forum moderators
ADDED 5mar15 - FLV format attachments now accepted too! :)
ADDED 21may15 - asf format attachments now accepted too! :)
Added 30may15 - webm format attachment are now OK too! :)
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It happens more often than we'd like: two (or more) users get into a verbal scuffle and inevitably, one will resort to pressing the "Report to Moderator" button to accuse the other party of breaking the site rules. More often than not, either no one's broken the site rules at that point, or both parties crossed that line before the button got pushed.
While we DO want users to use the "Report to Moderator" button to promptly bring a problem to our attention, those problems should be actual violations of site rules or some other time-sensitive and/or serious issue. "Report to Moderator" is NOT there to press when feelings get hurt or a user doesn't like the fact that they're losing a public disagreement or debate. Users are adults, and adults are expected to behave responsibly, and that means if you're going to get into arguments, you accept the possible consequences of that yourself (i.e.: being bested, having your points disproved with logic/factual citations, being in the minority on an issue, etc...). If you can't deal with that, then we strongly suggest that you simply avoid potential conflicts altogether.
A recent public warning we had to make regarding just such an event:
Contrary to the complaint we received, we (moderators) see no evidence thus far of anyone breaking the Owner's rules, either in letter or spirit.
People are going to disagree with each other and as long as they do so within the rules, they are entitled to express themselves about it.
If you can't bear to have anyone ever disagree with you, the only sure method of accomplishing that is to never say anything at all. However, if you choose to express your opinions, you do so knowing and accepting that others are free to do the same, whether they share your perspective on things or not.
The "Report to Moderator" button is for actual violations of the Owner's rules or other pressing, time-sensitive matters. It's not there (and we're not here) to assuage bruised egos or hurt feelings, so please find some other outlet if that's what's eating you. Thank you.
-Palomine, on behalf of all BEA Forum moderators
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Full moon last night? Something in the water? ???
I logged in three hours ago and am only now able to catch my breath because things that a few folks took it upon themselves to do required moderator attention. Within the past 24 hours:
One user persisted in fanning the flames of yet another boring and pointless implanted-or-natural debate by continuing to beat that particular dead horse even after mods instructed him to stop. He (and his aliases, which also have a similar history of disrespect for other users and the Owner's rules) has been banned as a result.
A different fellow continues his self-appointed role as witch-hunter, literally chasing another user around the forum accusing them of being dishonest... basically holding them to a standard that neither he nor any other user here is required to insure. No one asked him to prove his identity, so why he thinks he's got the right to stalk another user accusing them is beyond understanding. This user (the stalker) has been warned to stop, and should he decide not to do so, he will be banned... so whether he stays or goes is entirely up to him.
Finally, another user made a great, valuable and on-topic post but for whatever reason (perhaps just enthusiasm) he peppered it with comments that could be seen as insulting to the subject of the post, other users, and/or people in general. This post was removed and the user was contacted to explain why and I'm delighted to report that this fellow actually is a gentleman and understood why those comments were problematic (and also unnecessary) and happily, he's agreed to re-post/continue without the superfluous editorializing.
SO: one user (wearing yet another face) continues to inflict himself upon our community in his usual negative way and is banned. Another continues his unwelcome, self-appointed crusade and has been warned. A third proves himself to be a reasonable adult and agrees to adjust his behavior to bring his posting in line with our community standards.
On behalf of gonZo and Prof Morearty and the BEA Owner himself, I'd like to reiterate that despite the veil of anonymity provided by usernames, every single thing posted here comes from human beings and when you post here, what you're saying gets received by other human beings. You don't have to like or believe or agree with everyone else here, but you do have to behave like an adult when you post by exercising common (adult) sense, as well as abiding by the letter and spirit of the rules and any additional moderator guidance.
So, please take a deep breath and think before you post, since what you post affects others.
Edited Jan '16 to fold this thread into the "New Revisions to the Forum Rules & other news PLEASE READ NEW POSTS!" thread so as to slightly reduce the total number of pinned threads in the General Forum.
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Not a bump insomuch a solicitation:
If you'd like to upload an attachment format not on the current list of accepted format extensions, please PM gonZo, Prof Morearty or myself and let us know the details. If it can be added to the list of what the server will accept as an upload, we'll be happy to do so.
Of course, whatever kind of media/extension is being used, the content itself must still adhere to the BEA Owner's rules.
Thanks! :)
Edited Jan '16: to fold this thread into the "New Revisions to the Forum Rules & other news PLEASE READ NEW POSTS!" thread so as to reduce slightly the number of pinned threads in the General Forum.
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Some of you may remember (http://www.bearchive.com/~imaginos/iman-new.gif) Imaginos, who was essentially the founding father of the BEA Forum... our first webmaster for all intents and purposes. He was a good guy: thoughful, invested and community-minded. As it often does, real life beckoned and after some years, he was unable to justify the time needed to continue to run this place, so he retired.
That was quite a while ago and since then the internet as a whole and the BEA itself have grown and changed dramatically, including our Forum. Though we no longer enjoy the nurturing presence of a webmaster, our small team of forum moderators pretty much take care of everything other than sysadmin tasks. We manage as best we can, but as you'd expect, it takes a lot of time and we (try to) maintain our own real lives too. ;)
When the opportunity has presented itself, we've been fortunate enough to get some help from forum users and we're grateful for it. Even relatively small tasks take time, and when you multiply a minute here or there by thousands of users, over a million posts and the best part of two decades, it all adds up. Thus, a helping hand from an interested and willing user will always be appreciated. We mods thought we ought to thank our group of helpful pals publicly... it's the least we can do, since just like us mods, they're not paid for their time ...we're *all* volunteers here, putting in effort towards the greater good for our shared community. :)
So, below is the list of the users who give generously of their time to help out with special projects and/or forum upkeep, along with those who've done so in the past. This list is limited only to those undertakings we mods have some involvement with... it does *not* include all those many, many great users who contribute morphs, art, stories, comics, IDs, lists, clips, pix, links, literate forum posts and other public resources ...we're deeply appreciative of each and every such thing of course, but to list all those who've given and continue to give to our community like that would require a week of typing and a few megabytes of text. ;) Thus, our list of users to whom we offer our sincere "thanks" here is limited to that small group of folks who're helping out with a few specific mod-organized undertakings. In alphabetical order, we'd like to thank:
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adariman, who is the keeper of the BEA Princesses List: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?topic=3594.0
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BE4me put together the Artist Logos Database: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php/topic,566289.msg566289.html#msg566289
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CarlTL, who ran the original BEA Forum Morph Contests and still kindly helps out with the current/new contest, the Trophy Case for which can be seen here: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php/topic,9992582.0.html
(http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=427162;type=avatar)
rtpoe helps out with the time-consuming job of finding and identifying content from the BEA galleries that must be removed due to site rules. In the summer of 2015, he also became one of our forum Watchmen: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php/topic,9993284.msg10335629.html#msg10335629
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salem assists us in keeping the forums neat and organized and thus easier for all to use by helping out with various forum tasks including the merging of redundant/dupe threads: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php/topic,9992378.0.html In summer 2015, he also became one of our forum Watchmen: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php/topic,9993284.msg10335629.html#msg10335629
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sheber stood in for Imaginos after his departure, kindly acting as forum webmaster pro tem for a period of time... a challenging and time-consuming task.
(http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=418230;type=avatar)
Spector is the moving force behind the reboot of the monthly BEA Forum Morph Contest and he oversees each month's contest, the Trophy Case for which can be seen here: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php/topic,9992582.0.html
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Switcher is the other half of the team helps out with the time-consuming job of finding and indentifying content from the BEA galleries that must be removed due to site rules. In summer 2015, he also became one of our forum Watchmen: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php/topic,9993284.msg10335629.html#msg10335629
With our very sincere appreciation,
(http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=424660;type=avatar) gonZo, (http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=222349;type=avatar) Prof Morearty and (http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=191553;type=avatar) Palomine
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Brief update: SwitcherX, rtpoe and salem have agreed to help gonZo, Prof. Morearty and myself with keeping the forum organized and safe, so they're now "Watchmen." Watchmen aren't moderators (so please continue to address your hate mail to mods as usual ;)) but they will be splitting/merging/moving threads as needed and if they run across a possible violation post, they'll move it offline temporarily for us to review. If there's no violation, the post will be returned to where it came from. The point is to remove violations from public view ASAP and thereby keep the forum's liability to a minimum.
Thanks. :)
Edited Jan '16 to fold this thread into the "New Revisions to the Forum Rules & other news PLEASE READ NEW POSTS!" thread so as to reduce slightly the number of pinned threads in the General Forum.
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We're very happy to announce this change to the site Rules:
Unmorphed images owned by The Score Group (or any of their subsidiary sites/mags) CAN NOW BE POSTED at the BEA Forum with the following provisions:
1) The original Score/etc... logo on the image must be intact and present. So, if you have a Score pic w/o a logo, use GRIS (google reverse image search) to find another copy that hasn't had the logo cropped off and use that instead.
2) Each user is limited to posting/linking/attaching just one unmorphed Score/etc... item in a given thread per week. That is to say: if you attach/link to a Score pic in a thread about a specific model, you must wait until one full week has passed before posting another Score pic in that same thread.
Breaking these provisions will be considered to be serious violations of the Rules and appropriate consequences will be applied, so please don't abuse this new arrangement.
Please note: all the other/existing BEA Rules still apply, so no posting of excessive/bulk content such as links to entire pirated galleries or entire videos. In consideration of how long the BEA Forum has been online, and how it's operated during that time: with reason, restraint and respect for users and content creators alike (i.e.: the "1-1-1" rule, etc...) Elliot James of Score has generously agreed to this modification to our Rules. Thus, we ask everyone to abide by the letter and spirit of the Rules in general and these new provisions in particular, so we all can continue to enjoy the Forum for years to come. :)
PS: it'll take a couple days to update the text of the Rules page http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?action=rules but this change in policy is effective immediately.
Thanks! :)
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Here are some additional rule changes that have been made along with the new Score rules. These changes are in effect now, but might not be displayed on the Forum Rules page for several days.
• The 5-images-per-day limit for "internal linking" to images that already exist on the BEA server has been removed. You may post as many internal links per day as you like.
• The prohibition of photos of "Noelle M" aka "Noelle Martin" has been removed. Please be careful, though, because there are under-18 photos of her on the web that are still prohibited by the age rules.
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For a variety of reasons, we have to phase out our acceptance of logins made via TOR servers. Though only a tiny fraction of our users login like this, we're making this announcement to everyone now, so that no one will find themselves locked out w/o notice.
This will start happening in about a week, so if you've only exclusively ever accessed our forum via such a method, you should log in normally (not via TOR) within the next week so that you'll be able to continue to login after the TOR server(s) start getting filtered.
If you prefer, you can also just make a new user account without accessing via TOR and that should work fine after the transition too.
Thanks for your patience and understanding with this necessary bit of forum maintenance. :)
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Per our announcement here a few months ago, three of our users have become forum Watchmen ...they're helping us keep the BEA Forums organized and searchable for the benefit of all users here now and into the future. :)
Should you wish to suggest that any particular thread be split into two, or merged with another, or moved to a different sub-forum, or renamed, etc... you can simply PM ANY WATCHMAN:
rtpoe: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=846
salem: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=91962
SwitcherX: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=2326
Please remember that Watchmen are here to help, but they're not obligated to merge/move/etc... just because someone asks. They'll evaluate the request and if it makes sense, they'll generally do as asked. However, not all requests/suggestions will get acted on since some changes provide limited benefit (for other users and future searches) and things like moves/merges/etc... can also break internal links.
Don't forget to include exact link(s) to the post or thread you're talking about along with a concise explanation about why you're making the request so that they can consider and act on it if warranted.
Thanks! :)
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Per our announcement here a few months ago, three of our users have become forum Watchmen ...they're helping us keep the BEA Forums organized and searchable for the benefit of all users here now and into the future. :)
Should you wish to suggest that any particular thread be split into two, or merged with another, or moved to a different sub-forum, or renamed, etc... you can simply PM ANY WATCHMAN:
rtpoe: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=846
salem: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=91962
SwitcherX: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=2326
Please remember that Watchmen are here to help, but they're not obligated to merge/move/etc... just because someone asks. They'll evaluate the request and if it makes sense, they'll generally do as asked. However, not all suggestions will get acted on since some changes provide limited benefit (for other users and future searches) and things like moves, etc... can also break internal links.
Don't forget to include exact link(s) to the post or thread you're talking about along with a concise explanation about why you're making the request so that they can consider and act on it if warranted.
Thanks! :)
God dammit! now i have to re-read that graphic novel!
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Bumping this notice to remind all users that we now have three fellows who've kindly offered to help us out with keeping the forum organized for everyone's benefit.
So... when you run across a thread that you think should rightly be merged with another thread (because they're both about the same subject) or you think a thread got posted in the wrong sub-forum and should be moved to another, more appropriate sub-forum, or etc... PLEASE take a minute to write a PM (private message) to one of our three Watchmen:
rtpoe http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=846
salem http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=91962
SwitcherX http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=2326
to provide them with the links to the threads in question (and a brief explanation) so they can take care of it.
You don't even have to remember which users are Watchmen... just remember that their profile links (above) are in this notice thread, which itself is pinned near the top of the General Forum.
Thanks!
Mod edit Jan. '16 to fold this thread into the "Rule Changes & Other News PLEASE READ ALL NEW POSTS!" pinned thread just to reduce somewhat the number of pinned threads in the General Forum. -Pal
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We've added a "General Discussion: Obsolete Threads" sub-board below the regular/main General Discussion forum here: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php/board,28.0.html
This is going to be a repository for those very old GF threads that are just about moot now... if an ancient thread (over 10 years old):
Contains little or no relevant/useful information anymore (or never did in the first place)
Has no working attachments and most/all of its links (to sites or files) are broken/dead/expired
Doesn't rightly belong in one of the other sub-forums
...then it may eventually get moved into the General Discussion: Obsolete Threads sub-forum. Threads here can still be searched and viewed... they're not being deleted. They're simply being moved out of the GF because they no longer serve a purpose there anymore. Watchmen and moderators will NOT be moving any recent/active threads to the new sub-forum, since we don't want to break any internal links (from other posts)... just the really old stuff. GF threads that still might be useful and rightly belong in the GF will be left there, no matter their age.
Looking at these old threads full of broken links and missing images that used to go outside to Geocities, Tripod, or to Yahoo clubs that closed more than a decade ago is a "teaching moment" for why it's ALWAYS BETTER to ATTACH a file to your post by uploading it to the BEA Forum server (where it's bound to survive far longer than it would out in the world) and to PASTE a copy of externally-sourced text/info INTO the body of your post rather than just link to it outside, since external links are often so pitifully short-lived.
The BEA Forum is about 18 YEARS OLD now, and contains posts made more than 15 years ago. Among adult/online communities, the BEA is almost unique in this longevity, so PLEASE BEAR IN MIND that what you post today might get read by others 15 from now... SO PLEASE try to future-proof your posts as best you can by:
*Attach images and clips whenever possible instead of just linking to an outside source.
*Paste text sourced elsewhere into your post instead of just linking to an article or page outside.
*Include specific names (of models, publications, websites, movies, shows, products, etc...) in the body of your post text instead of just an URL to an external site... this way, your post will come up in searches AND users will have some good info to go on even if the URL dies.
PS: We've also appended the words "AKA Breasts in Movies" to the VCR Alerts forum title, since even with broken links, lots of good old BiM threads from BoobwatchOne and other users could still be useful to folks looking for viewing suggestions, and the VCR Alerts forum seems like the most appropriate place to keep/find such posts. :)
PPS: The words "Travel Advice" have been added to the name of the Meetings and Events sub-forum, since that's where such posts seem best suited.
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Hello everyone,
The long-awaited upgrade of the forum to a newer, stable build of the forum software is currently scheduled to take place next Tuesday, December 29th. The forum will be offline on that day for at least a few hours... if the date changes, or we have more information to share about the planned upgrade, we'll be sure to pass it along in this thread.
In addition to updated forum software (which will undoubtedly bring a new look as well as many other changes) the BEA Forum Chat will be changed to a completely new program, which was selected based on feedback from our forum users some months back.
Mods and Watchmen will be attempting to kick the tires on a test version of the new software as best we can during this busy time of year, but if history is any guide, users might experience some issues following the upgrade. We'll set up a thread to solicit feedback/bug reports and forward all of that to the admins, so they can work out the kinks.
Thanks (in advance) to everyone for their patience during this entire process. :)
-BEA Forum Mods
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In the
unlikely inevitable event that something goes wrong and the forum remains down for an extended period, we will post status updates (when we get them) on twitter at the account @plzbearwithus.
http://www.twitter.com/@plzbearwithus
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I mention this yet again because today I've seen no less than three posts this morning in which users appear to think that there's some rule against social media pix/references/links. THERE IS NO SUCH PROHIBITION!
Some years back, there was a rule against content from certain early/old social-media sites because at the time they were popular and such a large percentage of their content included underag3 subjects, so they were banned here. However, that ban was lifted a while back, and there has never been any rule against content/links/info from other, more contemporary/popular social media sites, SO YOU CAN POST FROM/ABOUT THEM. Of course, no matter what you post, it must adhere to the BEA Owner's rules, which is why we urge you to be careful when putting up links to pages on some social sites, since so many will likely have some underag3 content, and linking to that from here is a violation. If you attach a pic to your post instead of linking to the pic on an outside page, you completely avoid the risk of that kind of 'collateral' violation, which is why we always encourage folks to do that and ATTACH instead of linking.
SO, for the LOVE of PETE, will everyone who's wrongly believing that there's some rule against social media-sourced stuff here PLEASE correct their misconceptions instead of obeying a rule that doesn't exist and (even worse) spreading their misconception to other users by referring to that non-existent ban? Please?
YOU CAN post from VK, and Faceborg, and Tw1tter, and IG, etc... Though there's no ban against that stuff, the forum's autocensor may step on some of the WORDS ...that's just the BEA being discreet and does not imply a rule against Faceborg just because the actual/original version of the word Faceborg gets censored.
Thank you. :)
PS: you're all aware that the forum will be shut down for an upgrade at the end of the month, right? The announcement is here: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php/topic,9993643.0.html (please ALWAYS READ ALL NEW REPLIES TO PINNED GENERAL FORUM THREADS since they contain important news like this stuff). GonZo has set up a Tw1tter feed here: http://www.twitter.com/@plzbearwithus so we'll be able to keep everyone up to date just in case the forum stays down longer than expected.
Thanks!
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Clearly, some users are having trouble re-activating their original/existing user(name) accounts, since we've seen more than a few long-time members "starting over" with new usernames. We know that if you've lost access to the old email addy you used when you first registered years ago it can complicate matters, and that the process itself doesn't always go smoothly, but we assume most folks would prefer to continue to use their "regular" usernames.
So, this is a repost of the re-activation steps that gonZo's kindly posted elsewhere:
Click Login in the menu at the top of the Main Index page.
Click Forgot Password in the Login window.
Enter your old login-name in the Forgot Password window and click Get Password.
You should receive a verification email containing a link you have to click. If you don't receive it...
Return to the Main Index page and click Login again.
Click Submit A Ticket Here in the Login window.
Submit a support request, explaining that you're unable to reactivate your user account.
It may take a few days, but they'll fix it.
We (mods) don't have the admin access necessary to actually do the reactivation thing ourselves, but we do want to help users who're seeking to re-activate their original username accounts, so if you follow the above steps and are still unable to use your original username, please let us know the details via PM and we'll do what we can to get you additional assistance from the admins.
Thanks everyone for your patience. :)
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Tiny notice:
The forum that used to be called "VCR Alerts" has been renamed to "Breasts in Movies, TV Shows & Videogames" and we'll kindly ask users to put posts in those categories in that forum, including those nostalgic VCR Alerts of course.
We also changed the name of the Off-Topic forum a smidge, but nothing changes re: content/posts there.
Thanks!
PS: new BEA Chat room coming soon, based on Ajax Blueimp chat which is way better than Shoutbox or our old chat. :)
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We've added a new sub-forum called "Anime, Hentai and Manga" which should be self-explanatory. Please use this area for all relevant new posts, and we'll be moving existing threads on these topics into this area over time: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?board=30.0
We've also moved a lot of Sightings posts into the previously-announced Sightings board. If you think there hasn't been enough Sightings posts here, go check out the Sightings board and see what you probably missed while it was mixed in with all the General Forum stuff: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?board=26.0
Thanks. :)
Edited Feb 28, 2016: we've also decided it's about time to divide the former VCR Alerts forum into three separate sub-forums... there will be one for Breasts in Movies & TV (shows); one for Breasts in TV Commercials & Advertising (of any kind: print/online/billboards/etc...) and another for Breasts in Videogames & Virtual Environments (like Second Life, etc...).
Please have a look and participate in these new sub-forums... we'll be moving existing VCR Alerts posts into the new areas as time allows. Thanks! :)
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New rule as of May 2018:
Do not post/attach/link more than eight images per forum in any 12-hour period: any posts exceeding this limit will be deleted. After the 12-hour period has elapsed, you may post again.
For a discussion, see the announcing post: http://forum.bearchive.com/index.php?topic=9997209.0
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Given that OnlyFans content is produced by models for sale through their own sites, the Prof and I have decided that it would be best to make sure that no OnlyFans pictures can be posted on the BEA unless it is by the Copyright owner, or an image that has been morphed according to the BEA rules for posting morphs (see next post).
We made this decision to protect the BEA from the inevitable 'cease and desist' letters that would no doubt arrive after someone posts their pictures on here. Instagram and Twitter pictures from the accounts owned by the models is fine, but we would ask that you indicate that these were from instagram or twitter when you post them.
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The rules pertaining to morph uploads are:
"Morphers may post as many of their own morphs as they like at any time.
Morphs must differ substantially from their source photos; minor retouching of photos is not enough.
Morphs are subject to content restrictions described in Sections 2 and 3 below [i.e. Sections 2 and 3 of the rules, which you can find by clicking on 'Rules' at the top of the page]"