Updates

This is a announcement update of network policies for the General, Miscellaneous, Objects category.

This announcement is regarding TFL’s stance on e-mail change requests/fanlisting downtime reports and troubles immunity. While we, as a Network, will attempt to respond to requests on a timely basis, we currently can not give you a guarantee that your fanlisting will not slip through the cracks, or that we will be able to inform our staffers/process the request as soon as it is received.

For this reason, we urge owners submitting these forms to keep an eye on our updates blog and also their inboxes. If you have not received a reply from us confirming that we have passed on your downtime information, or that your e-mail address has been changed, within 3-4 days after submitting it then keep an eye out for problems with your fanlistings.

While we feel that as a Network, we have a responsibility to act promptly to requests, things can hold us up. This means that having you keeping an eye out for your fanlistings will ensure that your fanlisting will not be troubled or removed from the Network unnecessarily.

However, in the event that your form is received and not responded to within a reasonable amount of time and you receive a troubles notice for your fanlistings, you are obligated to contact us as soon as possible to inquire about your pending form(s). If it is due to an error on our part (be it a lag-time in response or otherwise) we will remove the troubles issue from your fanlisting’s record. However, we must stress that you contact us as soon as possible so we can begin to resolve the issue for you.

Also, we have been discussing the Network’s stance towards drugs and narcotics. It has been two years since the Network imposed its rule of not re-approving fanlistings for ‘hard drugs’.

We are not changing our current stance towards drugs that are illegal (i.e., heroin), however, we are allowing our staffers to consider subjects that may be in the grey area on a case-by-case basis. For subjects that are legal in some countries or used for medical purposes (i.e., marijuana), we feel that approval is okay. Furthermore, we have relaxed our stance on the approval of drug paraphenalia. We leave it up to the Miscellaneous staffer to use his or her best judgment at the time of the approval regarding whether the subject should be listed in our directory. If you are unsure if your fanlisting would be open for application, please feel free to approach the category staffer (Miscellaneous) or the senior staff for discussion.