Rewriting and simplifying the ToS

[removeduser_487563287433]

Thus follows my attempt to rewrite the ToS to simplify, shorten and better the ToS, without removing any meaning. However I have authored this is accordance to my proposal that we split the ToS into the Terms of Service and The Rules.

Whoever wrote this might as well go marry commas if they love them so much. I mean bloody hell.

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I have momentarily run out of time due to real-life contraints but hopefully will do this process to the rest of the ToS soon.

[pannonian]

Might as well start from scratch. Identify the main points of the ToS prelim, then make those points as simply as possible, without trying to identify any loopholes. Have a disclaimer at the end that this may be changed on the wishes of the site owner.

[Dayman]

Might as well start from scratch.

That's what I think should be done as well. Redefine everything.

[removeduser_487563287433]

I think the ToS... the legalities... you agree to this and we wont sell this side should roughly be the same. The rules, member conduct, may well be rewritten entirely.

[Simetrical]

This whole bit was inherited from ON, who I think copy-pasted it from some other site, where it was probably written by some self-important would-be lawyer. I think a rewrite would be a good idea.