Archive for the 'Policy' Category

No guaranteed minimum service

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

It occurs to me that I ought to say this really explicitly: there is no guaranteed minimum service on puzzling.org. None of you are paying me to do this, it’s not a business, and therefore I do not guarentee uptime, performance of the server, or responsiveness on my behalf. I mean, I try to provide [...]

Backups

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

I do not make backups of other users’ data on puzzling.org, with the not-guarenteed exception of WordPress weblogs, which I intermittantly back up. Further, I do not believe that Linode does backups either. While I will take every reasonable precaution not to destroy your data, you should maintain backups of any data that is important [...]

Acceptable use

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

Please note that I want people to self police on this: I won’t be seeking evidence that you’re not following the below, I want to trust people. If any part of the below is not acceptable to you, please talk to me first (perhaps it was misworded or there’s an implication I didn’t consider) and [...]

Hosting images on puzzling.org

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

Policy applies to: people hosting websites on puzzling.org
Hosting images is now a potentially enormous bandwidth liability. This is thanks to images.google.com, which makes it easy to find third party images, and the <img> HTML tag, which makes it easy to include other people’s images in your own pages. If you have an image at http://example.puzzling.org/hugeimage.jpg, [...]