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We understand majority of people don't read terms of use, but if you do, you must be one of kind. Here we will try to make it brief and straight to the point without boring you.

Enough chit chat.

TipBo General Terms of Use

By using the TipBo site, you are agreeing to play by our rules, which will govern your use of TipBo on this lovely internet.

Still here? Then you get to stay and play—after you read the rules, of course. Before we start, we must also mention that we get to change these rules whenever we think it's appropriate, and we will inform our members.

General Use Restrictions—aka: If it's ours, don't mess with it

All of the content you find on TipBois user-generated, we take every link you post on TipBo and try and find those golden nuggets of stories. This includes blog posts, pictures, videos and pretty much anything else you find on the internet.

Links to Third Party Sites

Just because links shows up on TipBo doesn't mean that we're endorsing them or any of the content or other links you may find when you get there.

Submitting, Commenting, Voting and Groups/Communities

Submitting

To submit content, you must agree to the following:

• You will not submit spam. We realize that one person's spam is another's treasure, so we strongly encourage you to ask yourself the following question before you submit content:
  

  If the sponsored ads, links, copied/scraped/cut-and-pasted/used-without-permission content were removed from the page, would your submission have anything of value left? If the answer is "no," Congrats! You've just TipBoed spam!

• You will not post links to any site whose sole mission is to sell a good or service, unless, of course, it's done for humorous reasons and contains no affiliate benefits.
• You will not solicit or post any sexually explicit images (actual or simulated).
• You will not post anything that exploits children or minors or that depicts cruelty to animals.
• You will not post any copyrighted or trademarked materials without the express permission from the owner.
• You will not subject other TipBoers to junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of such solicitation.
• You will not attempt to overload our system or clog our "Recently Submitted" section with multiple submissions from one source in a short period of time.

While we're at it: Let's try to keep the self-submitting to a minimum. Every once in a while is OK, but to be a good member of the community, you need to submit content from a variety of sources. Think of this as a dinner party with scintillating conversation; does anyone actually like the person who keeps interrupting and only talks of themselves? No, because that isn't actually "conversation."

Commenting

Our TipBoers are a very cool bunch of people, and to become a TipBoer you have to agree to play nice, especially when leaving comments. In a very large nutshell, this means that you will:

1. NOT defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise engage in any type of creepy behavior toward others. In case you are unsure what the TipBo Team means by defaming or abusing or harassing, this means very clearly and without qualification that:

• You cannot call other users names.
• You cannot belittle or bait them directly or indirectly.
• You cannot insult them, their moms, their education or anything else about them.
• Any behavior that is interpreted in this way by the TipBo admins will immediately subject your account to actioning by our "3 strikes and you are out" policy.

2. NOT use offensive or derogatory language based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or ethnicity. If you have issues, get help, preferably somewhere else.

3. NOT discuss or incite illegal activity of any sort.

4. NOT place links to off-topic or irrelevant websites in comments.

This isn't all to say that debates can't or don't get heated. Stick to your opinions without the name-calling and derogatory statements and all will be well. If someone is trying to cause trouble but stayed on the right side of these terms, use the Fighting Words to hide their comment from casual viewers.

Voting

You agree:

• That you will not conspire with others (or yourself) to create voting rings, fake accounts or use any other method to manipulate the rating or ranking of a submission. Those caught doing so will be shown the door immediately, no questions asked, no appeals. And yes, we do have ways of finding this type of behavior, though we'd rather not have to.
• That you will not change the ratings of any story, alter comments or give yourself or anyone else extra Karma Points. That would be antithetical to the meaning of karma, anyway.
• You will not use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access or manipulate TipBo, except for accessing RSS feeds or through accepted use of our API (coming soon).

We're sorry that we have to spell out all of this, but you must agree: While most people are inherently good, a few of them just suck at common sense, ethics, morals, etc. Which is why we also reserve the right to add to this list at any time. If we have to, we will notify legal authorities and/or cooperate with law enforcement investigations of illegal activity.

Groups and Communities

In using Groups and Communities you agree to the following:

• Do not create groups solely for SEO purposes or to increase your page rank.
• Do not create duplicate groups.
• Do not create groups solely to sell specific products.
• Do not submit stories to groups irrelevant to the topic of the story.

Unauthorized Activity

Misbehave and you're the one who will be in trouble, not us. When you agree to play by our rules, you agree that no one employed by or in any way related to TipBo will be held accountable for your actions, legally or financially. And if we have to protect ourselves in court because of your actions, we will stick you with the bill.

Google Ads

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on TipBo. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our TipBo users based on their visit to TipBo and other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Disclaimer of Warranties

As much as we'd love to, we just can't vet every single submission to the TipBo. And even some of our stuff might have the occasional inaccuracy or typo. We are not responsible for any of these errors, either on TipBo or a third-party site. We offer TipBo to you on an "as-is" basis.

Limitation of Liability

If you misbehave while you're on TipBo—download stuff you shouldn't, make illegal copies, that sort of thing—we are not responsible; we warned you, but you'll have to take your lumps.