Tos

[stonerocket]

Going through the free hosting offers forum and looking at other providers TOS, I feel ours is too hard for the newbie eyes to understand.
http://www.stonerocket.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=712

Im looking for input on how to improve ours! make it shorter but in turn I stand by every rule, A lot of fresh faced providers never bother updating their TOS they copy and paste from other providers which pisses the hell out me, but what the heck.. sh*t happens.

[Richard]

80% of noobies eyes wont even see your ToS.

I would not bother.

[Erizo]

Exactly as Richard said, on free hosting they're mostly there in case something legal wants to happen. :P

[TSO]

Don't shorten your TOS just to make it shorter. :rolleyes: To be blunt, that's dumb. You want your TOS to protect you, above everything else.

[Hosting4You]

I agree with TSO, I would not make it shorter to be shorter and most of the people do not even read through it. It though will still protect you.

[TaoPhoenix]

It might be useful to layer it with a summary. Rising Newcomers may want to try to follow the rules and want to know the worst things to avoid.

A summary like "At this time this site does not allow Mp3's or Exe files, Cracks or clear Warez, and file size is 2Megs, 80% of which must be linked to on your site" etc.

Y'all are far more experienced than I, but I am no longer an EternalSeptember member either. As an intelligent PotentialUser I need to know certain account facts like posting quotas, inactivity trigger periods, etc.

The "NastyLanguage" can be below a dotted line or something.

[stonerocket]

Don't shorten your TOS just to make it shorter. :rolleyes: To be blunt, that's dumb. You want your TOS to protect you, above everything else.

I totally agree, thing being - If you was a newbie user, completly new to hosting how would you understand it?

[Dynash]

It's free hosting, make a little bulletin for the basics with a short explaination of what each are means. Keep the main TOS up and just link to it.

As long as people know simple things like no illegal content, filehosting, cancellations etc.

[stonerocket]

Most users comply, its those with warez scripts and those who think they have wrote a script that they think thats secure...

[Schmarvin]

I would suggest keeping it short, sweet, and to the point. :)

[Peo]

What are the most common problems of users breaking your tos at the moment?

I would list those as a short summary to warn users when they sign up. Then link from the summary to the long TOS as it's there to protect you. Users who host illegal files won't bother to read it anyway.

[TaoPhoenix]

Speaking of Inactivity triggers, I now promote more than ever that hosts find ways to use the freed bandwidth of erratic users so that sites stay parked rather than deleted.

I think I just lost one of my lead hosts because (fair and square) I missed my deadlines to post logins to their forum. Totally my fault, but it says something that getting busy for a couple of months risks data = potentially too volatile.

[ThePro]

A good idea would be to add a part saying like "The conclusion" and it would explain everythign there in a short way.

[labyrinth]

Basic-Basic in general free web hosting.

no warez, illegal sites & nulled scripts
no proxy sites
no porn of any kinds
no password sites
no spam, phish, fraud, hacking sites
no downloads stuffs [keep them at "file hosting" not in "web hosting".]

It's shortie & easy to understand you can even equipt it to your homepage as a "quick tos" box.

[Patrick]

To add to labyrinths list:

- Nothing illegal in [ insert Country Name here ]
- No excessive CPU usage
- No excessive Memory usage
- You are responsible for anything you host, including web site content.
- We reserve the right to terminate your account, etc