Dear Cuties,
We as your friends and Moderators for this site (jrob, mops, marjialexa, rescuer), would like to ask for help from all of you. Please help us protect this great site. We need to avoid links to sites that give or sell illegal designs. If you see a link posted here on Cute to a site with illegal designs, please report the post to the moderators. We can then ask the user to edit the post or in some cases remove the post. We are hoping it will help prevent hurt feelings and we can help protect this site as well as Cuties and their computers.Try to remember that most sites with illegal designs will also have "free" viruses and trojans or malware included in your free design download. Even if your anti-virus does not warn you -- they can still be there.
Thanks for all your help. This is a wonderful community!
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Thank you all so very much! Your help and support makes this site a better place to be and your help makes our job as moderators much easier.
You have my gratitude and a flower for each of your gardens.
Hugs
57675I'll try to do my best and please correct me if I'm wrong. Thank you for all you do :)
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255054Kay and other's who want to see how to contact the moderators:
Go to the Inbox and open a new PM then add the names like shown in the picture.
I hope this helps.
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by shilly
22 Nov 2013
TU, appreciate the tactful handling of the situation; now, all we need to do is signal the moderators when we come across any links to suspect designs.
57675What is the best way to contact the moderators?? I don't see a contact us tab. Kay
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15982Thank you for the wonderful work you do to protect us. I think it would be helpful to have a list of the sites deemed unacceptable that we could refer to before posting a link. I realize that new ones will pop up, but they could be added to the list as well. Would such a list be possible?
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by rescuer
18 Nov 2013
Possible but very difficult for the reasons you mentioned and some others. We don't have a way right now of keeping that list someplace handy.
It might help you know a bad site...if they give away Hello Kitty, Disney, Movie Characters, sports team logos...any thing else recognizable -- avoid the site.
11506Thank you for all the hard work you are doing and have done. I too, will follow your suggestion.
Many, many, warm hugs, Bonnie
6803Thank you Rescuer, We all must Protect Cute. Im still suffering with 5th tab withdrawel symptoms :(
15256Thank you for all you do for us! Cute is my family and I'm so relieved we are in a safe place. I will do my best to help you all too. Love and hugs, Yoriko
88650Sometimes, when I go deep into a site that has been recommended from here, I mean really far back, I may find a design that looks a whole lot like a Disney, or a Hello Kitty. Are you referring to those sites? If that is the case, then should we report them to the moderators, or to the group? Because I know one that we often see referred has those.
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by marron1
18 Nov 2013
when i came across one that had disney designs i reported it to a moderator and let her deal with it quckly and quietly..marron
by rescuer
18 Nov 2013
Thanks for asking this question.
We think it is best if you send a link of the current post to all the moderators and then (hopefully) we won't have hurt feelings in the community. If many people are still linking to the same site, the moderators can make a general announcement and then none of you have to be "the bad guy" no one gets berated on the Open Forum and we can have a peaceful site.
We are just trying very hard to help keep Cute a happy, peaceful, and legal place to be.
Thanks for your help marron1.
by hightechgrammy
19 Nov 2013
I will confirm that favorite site still has up the illegal, licensed design, and if it is still there, I'll let you know. How does that sound? Maybe they have removed them!
by hightechgrammy
19 Nov 2013
Hey Ya'll - GOOD GOOD News! I went through every single page on that wonderful site - and those designs I saw there earlier - are GONE! They must have realized they shouldn't be there and taken them down! I don't have to do anything!!! YEAH!!!
59631Thank you all and I will do my best. Best wishes to all Cutes and have a safe and happy holiday season.
173695Oh No could we live without cute? don't think so...
Thumbs up for the reminder of this important post.
Everyone have a lovely day.
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234500Thank you all for helping us to be a safe place for all of us! Hugs ** Loralye
299559Thank you for the reminder. Sometimes we are not aware that the design is illegal, just remember that anything we see that normally has a trademark are usually illegal if they do not come from the original designer. Yes, sometime there may be one, but they will not be free. The individual that is posting it has had to purchase the right to use the design and it doesn't come cheap.
Thanks, MS V. for all the hard work and gracious giving of your time so that we might have a site that we may use,
15626You have my support. I think it is a wise decision. I hope all will understand the seriousness of this issue.
169064We all need to be diligent here...we have had problems with digitizers posting designs that did not comply with the site rules and we as well as Miss V are suffering the consequences...we have lost access to DBC for the time being...if we are not diligent, we may lose other posting privileges...and lest we not forget, these are privileges we enjoy daily. It may be that you post something that you are not aware is a problem...that is why all of us need to let our moderators know if we suspect that there may be a problem...before it becomes a big problem...I am with you "rescuer" and all of the other moderators who are responsible to keep our site healthy, safe, and legal...believe me, it is not an easy job...and remember they are there to help us and protect us...we need to have their backs...
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