Yes, yet another announcement about a rule. Since making rule 24, we've been in discussions with many of the systems on the site about how to make this a welcoming space for everyone, within reason. We've updated rule 24 to allow mention within journals, and that can be seen in the announcement before this one.


Rule 8, for those who aren't familiar with it, read as such: 8. Only one account per person. You are not allowed to share your account to other people, if they want in they have to sign up for their own accounts. You are also forbidden from creating more than one account for your own use (except temporarily when allowed by a staff member to recover a lost account). When speaking, do not suffix alter names. Speak as you would normally in real life, when meeting a stranger.


This rule was made years ago due to people constantly spamming alter changes, and the same person would also pin blame on their alters for bad behavior. It came off as someone making the whole thing up in order to dodge responsibility.


The updated rule 8 is as follows: Only one account per body. You are not allowed to share your account to other people, if they want in they have to sign up for their own accounts. You are also forbidden from creating more than one account for your own use (except temporarily when allowed by a staff member to recover a lost account). For people who are required to share an account due to being systems the account is treated as one person for moderation purposes and will by subject to appropriate consequences regardless of alter. When speaking, do not suffix alter names. Speak as you would normally in real life, when meeting a stranger. Stating what alter you are at the start of a conversation or when asked directly is allowed, as long as you do not repeatedly suffix every message.
An example: "Hey Susan, how are you today?"
"Oh, it's Alison right now, but I'm doing well"
-they both continue the discussion normally and without bringing it up again-



This allows you to express who is fronting once, to avoid confusion. As per rule 24, you are still not allowed to discuss plurality, DID and such outside of designated spaces, but just mentioning your name is fine.

This rule also changes things to make people accountable for their actions. It does not matter who is fronting if you're a system. I don't care if the main host is Jesus of Nazareth, if someone in your system breaks the site rules and causes a problem, the account as a whole will be punished.

I hope these alterations help clear up issues, making tg a healthy and welcoming environment for everyone.

After much deliberation, we staff have decided to disallow discussion on plurality and DID among the main parts of the forum.

The rule as written: Plurality, DID, multiple personalities, and other like conditions are not to be discussed outside of adult spaces, with the exception of teams in which the staff member allows, and personal journals, or if the individual is seeking legitimate healthcare resources.


This has always been a loaded topic, much like politics, and almost always degrades into bickering or people invalidating others experiences. We do not wish to exclude or punish people who are legitimately experiencing these conditions, hence why we are not having a blanket ban. For the sake of peace though, we must limit these topics to designated spaces. Since staff members can change over time, if you wish to find a team which allows this as a discussion topic, feel free to post in Write to Staff and ask us.


I realize that there will people who are upset with the new rule, as there are people with every new rule, but this has really been an ongiong issue for many years now, and we would rather people with these issues to be able to talk in designated spaces safely rather then be invalidated by people who are skeptical in the public spaces. Skepticism is allowed on this site, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but when it devolves into bickering, it makes the space uncomfortable for everyone.

Thank you all for the understanding.

Hey all,

As many of you likely already know we've been having a lot of incidents recently involving those attempting to access the site by lying about their ages. Up until now we've tried to take a forgiving approach to the problem by giving them the chance to own their mistakes and publicly apologize on the forum. I have spoken with some of those who did this, and I understand they wanted community and were encouraged by friends to lie to try to get in.

This issue however is quite serious for a number of reasons:

1. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) requires that we do not admit those under 13 onto the site. TG could be sued and/or shut down for violating it, destroying this home that we have tried so hard to give you (See: Here).

2. To prevent minors from masquerading as adults and accessing adult spaces, which could lead to innapropriate interactions or accusations and put our adult members at risk.

3. To prevent adults from masquerading as minors and putting the actual minors under our care in danger.

So these are safety issues, and it's our job to keep this place safe for all of us.

I have attempted to make it clear in the past that these attempts to bypass this aspect of our activation screening would eventually lead to others being banned over it "in the future".. Well, the future has come, and now we are banning someone over it.

If you have questions or concerns you may contact me or one of the other staff, or use the Write to Staff forum.

Regards,
-Cyg

With all of the new members here, many of which are new to forums in general, I and other staff often find ourselves digging for many links to answer member questions. So I'd like to make a big thread that has all the helpful links you'll need. And I'll try to organize them by category.

Please note that while this is an announcement that can be seen by members and guests alike, many of these links will only work for registered forum members.

Where to post if you need to ask staff about something:

Write to Staff

How the site works:

Community Rules of Conduct

The Staff Team

Why we have an age requirement

The age groups on our site

Safety for Minors

Privacy

All About Forum Points

About How Forum Code Works

The Points Shop


Becoming a Member:

How to Become Activated as a Member

How Long it Takes to Become Activated

Our Policy on Duplicate Accounts

Staff Teams:

Teams and How to Join Them


Life Issue Support For Members

Where to post if you need to vent or need support

How to join the support group

How to post in the support subforum

Our Discord Server:

How to join the Discord server

Rules of our Discord Server

Member Journals

The Journal Subforum

TG's Staff Journal

User Creativity

Where to Share Art

User Marketplace Conduct

How to sell physical goods with points

Physical Merch and Donations

The TG Budget

Donating to TG

Our Ko-Fi

Points Shop Physical Merch Designs

Let me know if there's anything you think I missed or would be helpful to add~

Howldy folks! Us staff have been hard at work lately, but we're ready to announce that we're offering new merch in our points shop! We plan to offer new team focused designs, as well as make new kinds of offerings like stickers! The points shop side of things isn't set up juuuust yet, as we have a few more things to tweak first.

We also just set up a new thread where you can view the designs available before investing your hard earned points. It also has links to our merch stores in case you want to just buy the items directly, and it has items which are not listed in the points shop too.

You can view the thread with the art and shop links here.

Now you can sport your team memberships in stylish new ways.

Enjoy~