Can a Shoutout be rejected?

Modified on Fri, 27 Sep at 9:23 AM

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Yes, a shoutout can be rejected.

Shoutouts are intended to be used by anyone in the IMVU community to send friendly messages to one another and to allow developers to advertise their items or to get contests going. They are NOT meant to be used in order to make contentious or inflammatory statements, to criticize others, to voice opinions or complaints, or to provoke argumentative responses.

Shoutouts must be appropriate for a General Audience (age 13 and up). All Shoutouts will be screened for violations of IMVU's Terms of Service (TOS) as well as for inappropriate content. This includes but is not limited to the following:

inappropriate or profane language
inappropriate sexual innuendos or solicitations (blatant "hooking up" requests, etc.)
proselytizing (religious solicitation)
complaints, criticism, contentious opinion, negative labeling, gossip, insinuation, accusatory statements, hearsay etc
statements that would provoke an argumentative response
anything that contains links that are broken
anything that contains links to non-IMVU sites

Note: You may include links to non-IMVU sites on your own home-page but not in Shoutouts. All links on your own home-page must still be compliant with IMVU's TOS.

any advertising for IMVU products (including credits and catalog items) that appears to be anti-competitive (such as telling people not to shop elsewhere claiming to have the cheapest or best prices)
announcements for contests or for reward opportunities that appear to be scams (such as promising rewards when you have none to give, promising people gifts or credits when you do not have sufficient funds to support this claim, etc.) or that otherwise violate IMVU's TOS.
chain mail or spam
misrepresenting yourself or others in your message (such as "posing")