PBLOG Site Rules/Before August 30, 2022

PBLOG's site rules had been liberal from 1995 to August 29, 2022. PBLOG was founded by Kevin Perry in 1995 initially as Perry's Net, which allowed users to create their own community site similar to ATBW Blog except focusing on only one specific topic. During the mid-1990s, the site's rules were mostly unenforced apart from legal laws, and its own sites were allowed to do what they wanted as long as they were within the law and the terms of use. Enforcement of the terms of use didn't begin until 1997, but even then, they were still liberal and generally allowed individual sites to enforce them on their own.

On April 3, 2000, Langile Corporation acquired PBLOG and it was placed under its ATBW Label Networks subsidiary, which at this time was already autonomous. It became a sibling company to ATBW Blog (now known as PBLOG Lite) and now all major ATBW Blog companies at that time had more direct control over their PBLOG sites. However, Langile Corporation imposed a new T.o.S. and added new rules for its users. Even then, these rules were still lenient and these new terms of service only served as a bare minimum of the rules that are on PBLOG sites.

In response to the Deltahorse35V5 trojan attack in the mid-2000's that impacted ATBW Blog and several major ATBW Blog companies, stricter terms of use and enforcement of them were imposed on November 17, 2006, but PBLOG sites again still had autonomy and these new rules did not have major impact on these sites other than a new ReCAPTCHA verification system for all new accounts.

On April 20, 2022, both PBLOG and ATBW Blog, as well as related assets and subsidiaries, were spun off to PBLOG Group by Takash Puterr in response to the ATBW Antitrust Lawsuit during the early 2020's. A CEO was not immediately chosen and instead a stewardship that controlled the company and served as the temporary CEO until Bob Blessen was chosen on October 7, 2022. On June 1, 2022, PBLOG Group announced a series of new rules that all users, admins, and sites alike would have to follow or face penalties which would go into effect on August 30, 2022. However, these rules would not be retroactive and would not apply to any action made before that date, though the stewardship could still intervene in local PBLOG sites between June 1 and August 29, 2022.