TS members are the lifeblood of the site, so we are hesitant to ban anyone from participating. Still, certain behavior can negatively affect everyone's enjoyment of TwinkSocial, so we created the Terms of Use as a guide to being a good citizen of our online community. We give several warnings for all but the most egregious violations of our rules before resorting to a temporary or permanent ban. If you have been banned, rest assured that a lot of discussion and debate took place behind the scenes before such action was taken.

The best thing to do if you've been temporarily banned is to patiently wait for the ban to end and then come back refreshed and ready to play by the rules. The worst thing you can do is create another account to circumvent the ban. Its generally pretty easy for moderators and other members to spot these accounts, and when discovered, all of your accounts will be permanently banned.

If you've been permanently banned, there really isn't much that can be done except in the most extraordinary of cases. If you feel that an egregious mistake has been made, you can put in a support request with an explanation of the problem.

Any content that violates the law is prohibited from being posted, uploaded, or linked to by TS users. This applies to all areas of the site, including the Community Forum and user profiles, blogs, and gallery space.

As an online service provider, TS does not review member generated content before it is posted. We rely on the community to self police content and report violations of our Terms of Service and the law. Each page containing user generated content has a Report Abuse link that can be used to alert us to a problem.

Members are solely responsible for the content posted using their account, and the repeated posting of prohibited material may lead to deletion of a member's account.

Some of the more common types of prohibited material are as follows:

• Spam and unauthorized advertising. We don't run around the Internet spamming links to TS, and we ask that other webmasters and site owners extend us the same courtesy.
• The personal details of celebrities, porn stars, or other members without their permission. You may have gone to high school with, or know the real name and adress of some hot porn star, but please don't post the details in the open forum. There are some wacky people surfing the Internet, and we know you'd feel badly if something happened to a performer (or another member) because that information fell into the wrong hands.
• Your personal information. Do not post your residential address, email address, phone number, or other personally identifiable information in the open forum. This one seems self evident, but there are a number of people who don't fully appreciate that when you post this type of information online, you aren't just sharing it with a few people in the forum, but with everyone who knows how to use a search engine. Only give out personal information privately (via Private Message or email) and only after you're certain of the integrity of the person receiving it.
• Pirated and/or copyrighted material. Do not post or link to copyrighted content for which you are not the creator or do not have permission to post. Contrary to popular belief, it costs a great deal of money to produce and distribute the porn films we all love. Studios are entitled to be paid for their efforts, and the trading of pirated movies puts the continued viability of those productions at risk.
• Underage material of any kind. Sexual text or images that depict or imply subjects who are, or appear to be, under the age of 18 are strictly prohibited. TS is a site for adults to discuss and enjoy the beauty of MEN. Any inappropriate sexualization of minors is completely and absolutely prohibited and will result in the deletion of your account.

While we reserve the right to remove any content anywhere on the site at any time, as a general rule, we don't remove posts that do not in some way violate our Terms of Use. That means that mildly offensive or off-color posts will probably not be removed.

Personal attacks and excessive baiting are not allowed anywhere in the Community Forums, Pordiles, or anywhere comments can be left. If you come across a post that contains these or other violations of the Terms of Use, use the "post report" button at the bottom left of each post to alert a moderator.

Sometimes the confirmation email can get flagged as spam by your email provider. Check your filtered or "junk" mail folders to see if this is the case. Make sure to mark mail from us as "NOT JUNK" or whitelisted in your email program and add admin@twinksocial.com and twinksocial@gmail.com to your address book. If you don't, you may miss notifications from the forum related to private messages you receive, thread subscriptions, and other important issues. In addition, you must be able to receive email from us in order to use our automated password recovery tool.

Special Note: If you are using a spam challenge / response service such as Spam Arrest, be sure to add admin@twinksocial.com and twinksocial@gmail.com to your authorized sender list as we are not able to manually complete the verification process.

While we're always sorry to lose a member of the community, we understand that its sometimes necessary for members to permanently delete their accounts. You can set your own account for deletion by choosing the Unregister link in your profile. Unregistration is PERMANENT AND IMMEDIATE, after which time your entire account, including your personal webspace, will be permanently deleted.