Hey-AI Rules to All Users:
These guidelines aim to ensure Hey-AI remains a nice, relaxing and welcoming place for all non-Asian girls and Asian guys to meet and chat. All Hey-AI members are requested to adhere to the guidelines below (which are applicable to all parts of Hey-AI).
1. HEY-AI is a friendly community for non-Asian girls and Asian guys aged 12 or above.
2. (continued from 1) in general, we endeavour to keep this site clean without pornography (e.g. nudity photos) or contents of sexual, violent, provocative, offensive, racist, terrorist and extremist nature. Any materials and statements of these natures, including but not limited to drugs, weapons of any kind, or anything that can make others feel uncomfortable, insulted or offended including the use of swear words or abusive language are not allowed anywhere on this site (which includes public forums, personal profiles, Cam Chats linked to from the site, wall comments or private messages).
3. All members should respect wishes of other Hey-AI members whether to be in contact or not. Other than actions stated in (2), harassment of any members in any forms (including wall comments, private messages, online chat) making others feel uncomfortable will not be tolerated. Members over 22 are asked to refrain from privately contacting members under 18.
4. All members should respect other members on their views and backgrounds when expressing their own views or sharing their experience on forums, and refrain from attacking or insulting others personally or making unnecessary provocative statements. Members should not disclose private details of others, especially in the public forums. Everyone is asked to consult his/her own common sense as to what might be inappropriate.
5. All members are requested not to spam forums or any member profiles. Advertising in any form is not allowed without permission from the administrators. We are not responsible for the content of any linked sites.
6. Any sort of mass messaging without the permission from a site admin will lead to you getting banned.
7. Self-introduction should be made on the introduction page in the forum. Separate introduction posts in the forum will be deleted. Forum should be used for sharing experience and discussing topics of public interest, not for self-advertising or self-introduction.
8. Although Hey-AI encourages vivid forum discussion, it remains primarily a social network site and not an anonymous forum. Users are advised to upload a clear picture of themselves. Hey-AI reserves the right to request users to upload a picture of themselves and verify the pictures, and users have to comply in the given time or will be banned from Hey-AI. This will be done especially when users seem to only take part in controversial discussions but not socializing with other members. If you use a picture of a person who is not you as your profile picture, you will be required to clearly indicate in your profile that this is not actually you. This must be done even if you post real pictures of yourself somewhere else in your profile.
9. Fake profiles, multiple profiles or profiles created by banned members will be deleted immediately by an administrator.
10. All members must respond and comply to requests from the administrators. If you think you have been unfairly treated by any administrators, please contact Karyuu who will investigate your case.
11. If you have any enquiries; please contact the administrators by private messages. If you would like to contact a banned member, please contact an administrator and we can forward your message. For complaints, please use the complaints and feedback procedure described below and don't post them into the forums directly.
12. Each user must not do or say anything on our site or in any chatroom that is associated with it that is against German law, or the laws of the country she or he is from, or against common sense. Hey-AI reserves the right to ban any member for any reason, or no reason at all, with or without explaination.
13. Finally, all the administrators are a group of unpaid volunteers dedicated to spend their precious time to maintain this friendly community and we would like to kindly ask for your cooperation. In particular, if you think someone has breached our guidelines or done anything inappropriate, please kindly inform the administrators by private messages.
14. By signing up at this site, you are obliged to follow our rules. If you do not agree with any of the rules stated here, leave the site.
Admin Actions
1. Violation of the above guidelines will attract actions being taken by the administrators. For the less serious cases, the member will receive an admin warning to which he/she must promptly respond accordingly. Failure to respond may lead to further admin actions. For the more serious cases, such as display of nudity pictures, the member will be banned immediately without prior warning.
2. Inappropriate postings, comments or discussions (as described in the above guidelines and as illustrated in some examples below) will be deleted and minus-points may be 'awarded' as described in (3).
3. A point-based banning system is in operation and any members with 6 minus-points will be banned without further discussion. A number of minus points (usually 1 or 2), depending on the seriousness of cases, will be 'awarded' for violation of the above guidelines. In addition to or in lieu of minus points, you may be asked to perform a community service task that will be of benefit to Hey-Ai.
The administrators will keep a record of your minus points in the admin forum and inform you of any changes. So please watch out or you will be gone faster than you think!
4. Most admin actions are agreed by more than one administrators to ensure fairness; and all admin actions are noted in the admin group for the purpose of maintaining records. The administrators regularly updates the above guidelines according to the needs of the site and reserves the right to take appropriate actions according to the situation.
Cam Chat (Linked to Hey-AI)
1. All the above sections are applicable to our external cam chat. By entering our cam chat site, you agree that you will comply to the rules on this page. Rules specific for the cam chat can be found on this page.
2. Everyone joining the cam chat must respond and comply to requests from the cam chat administrators (as listed on this page) and must not block the administrators.
3. Because the chat is not our software, in certain cases a person who is not an hey-ai administrator might get admin rights in the chatroom. Please understand that in case you get them, you are not allowed to use them and ban anyone from the chat! Doing this will lead to a 2 weeks or longer chat ban. (In certain cases (no admin available, urgent need to ban some spammer/racist etc) using admin powers might not be punished if you acted in complete agreement with our rules, and if you send a report with a chat log and the reasons for banning according to our guidelines to one of the admins, but hey-ai will carefully examine each case and in most cases you will at least get minus points, so be really carefull about this please.)
Illustrative examples of racist, offensive, insulting and provocative statements which are therefore in violation of our guidelines (some past examples of guideline violations)*
-- Racist: 'Asian guys are nerds'
-- Offensive: 'I mean just look at him now taking that recreational drug shit up his fucked up nose'; 'thats just pathetic and laughable'
-- Personal Insulting: 'This guy is truly a failure and pathetic loser in live'; 'you have no life'
-- Swearing: '.... shit up his fucked up nose,'; 'I don't just make up some random bullshit'
-- Provocative: 'HAHA Well F**k me!!'; 'Seriously don't even waste your time posting here'
Handling of Complaints and Feedback Procedure
This Complaints and Feedback Procedure is to ensure our social network continues to provide a safe, friendly and fair enviornment for all our members.
We understand that our members' voices are very important to us and we would like to help resolve any disputes or problems in an effective and timely fashion, without disturbing the peace of other members who also use our social network.
We would like to try out this concept and see if it works, it is still undergoing internal discussion though and might be subject to change.
While posting a complaint on the Hey-Ai forums may be tempting, we urge all members to follow the 'Handling of Complaints and Feedback Procedure'
This is done to avoid having flame wars on our website and allow new members the opportunity to develop a good impression on our social network.
To make this system easier to understand, I would like to relate this to the court system.
[A] - Local Court
[B] - High Court
[C] - Supreme Court
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[A] - Local Court
The local court represents at least two mods/admin opinion on issuing a warning or a ban. The mod/admin will contact you and discuss their concerns on any potential wrong doings.
If you believe you have been treated unfairly, you may apply to the [B] - High Court to voice your complaint or concerns.
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[b] - High Court
The high court represents the entire Hey-Ai administrators and moderators. You can submit in writing (or discuss this via tinychat) to another admin or mod your side of the story and why you believe that you have been treated unfairly.
We will investigate and discuss your case with the rest of the admin and mod team. We will also provide you updates of our process so that you are aware of what is happening with your complaint.
Once a verdict has been reached, we will contact you and outline our decision and the basis of our decision.
If you still believe you have been treated unfairly, you may apply to the [C] - Supreme Court to voice your complaint or concerns.
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[C] - Supreme Court
The Supreme court represents both the entire Hey-Ai staff and a jury. Once you have applied for the Supreme Court, we will allow you to submit your case in a form of a 'thread'.
The jury will represent the other members and they can submit their opinions or vote whether the Hey-Ai admin staff have acted fairly and responsibly.
We will review all feedback and votes and review our previous verdict. A final verdict will be made and no further challengers can be made afterwards.
We hope this will provide a fair system to ensuring any complaints or feedback are resolved appropriately.
