PBLOG Site Rules

This page contains the list of rules on the site PBLOG, which was launched in 1995 and had been an ATBW Subsidiary since 2000. It is a media, photo, and blogging site similar to that of ATBW Blog, except that it is not one site, but a cluster of them made by people. A PBLOG site can be created by anyone so long as their account is verified, and from 1996 to September 6, 2018, Arrow Subscription was required to run more than one website, but this ended up being replaced with PBLOG Premium, which allows additional merchandise and account profiles. Since then, all users including free users can create unlimited sites and features restricted to Arrow Subscription were made usable by everyone.

Before August 30, 2022, The PBLOG company did not generally have any specific rules and instead allowed its users to make their own rules on their created sites, and site bans were usually enforced by individual site admins and not PBLOG staff themselves, but is a violation of the site's terms of use to create sites that host illegal content (copyright infringement, gambling, etc.), as well as those in which their intent is to discriminate against users or intentionally host controversial content. These sites are always shut down by PBLOG Staff and the offending user is banned globally across PBLOG.

In addition to no illegal or discriminatory content, PBLOG does have certain specific policies that allow the company's staff to intervene if a user is intentionally being disruptive on more than one PBLOG site, or if they continuously evade bans on local sites even after being banned by its admins.

However, on August 30, 2022, PBLOG Group unilaterally added centralized rules that apply throughout the entire site and forces all PBLOG sites to follow them. The company also got even more strict when it came to ban evasion, now resulting in a permanent ban for first offense with no exceptions, even if the ban evasion takes place on only one PBLOG site. Furthermore, the company had also gotten heavy-handed towards site operators, as well as ATBW Blog-owned companies that run them, now risking shutdown and possible global ban if they don't comply with the new rules.

Many people on PBLOG and ATBW Blog had protested against the new rules, but these protests on the site were immediately repressed, with protestors being permanently banned. In response to the protests, PBLOG Group made a new rule banning all protests against the newly implemented policies and threatens account suspension and global PBLOG bans for anyone caught with no exceptions.

List Of Rules (Pre August 30, 2022)
See this article for more about PBLOG's rules before August 30, 2022.
 * PBLOG requires users to be at least 13 years old (16 years old in the EEA and California), though some local sites may have it higher (i.e. 17 or 18 years old regardless of their location). Martha Woods Entertainment requires its users to be 16 years old to use it's PBLOG site regardless of their location. Users are banned until the turn of age but some stricter sites may outright ban them permanently, even once they reach the required age.
 * PBLOG does not allow ban evasion on the site, and staff typically delete any accounts suspected to be sockpuppets. However, the company's staff will only intervene if a user is doing it across more than one PBLOG site or if the user is doing it on the same site habitually, the latter ranking the user by staff as a habitual offender. Before August 30, 2022, PBLOG's ban evasion rules were much more lenient and permissible, allowing local sites to deal with this issue, and the company provided clemency for anyone ban evading.
 * PBLOG bans users globally if they abuse the site creation tool by creating a dozen sites at a time without any purpose whatsoever or if the user creates a site in which it's purpose is to intentionally attack other sites or sites that steal content from others.

PBLOG Rules (Since August 30, 2022)
On August 30, 2022, parent company PBLOG Group added a series of new rules for all PBLOG sites and all PBLOG sites are required to follow them with no exceptions. These rules mostly deal with PBLOG site admins, but few also address user rules as well, including tougher disciplinary action for ban evasion. Previously, PBLOG had almost no rules to PBLOG sites and instead handed this down to these sites.


 * PBLOG requires all sites hosted on it to have their rules pages clearly visible and easily accessible for all with no exceptions.
 * Admins are prohibited from banning users arbitrarily, as doing so can result in disciplinary action from PBLOG staff.
 * PBLOG sites are not to be used as chatrooms, though a chatroom feature does exist and adds a chatroom, and a discord server can also be added as a plugin as well. PBLOG sites that are only used to chat are shut down.
 * Any rules made by any PBLOG site may not violate PBLOG's terms of use or supersede them in any way, with no exceptions.
 * PBLOG Group bans any JS or CSS extensions, with the only exception being personal use.
 * Rules made on PBLOG may not be overly restrictive or prevent users from using the site properly.
 * Admins are not allowed to harass or intimidate any of its users or they can risk severe disciplinary action from PBLOG staff or even the company itself, with permanent loss of admin rights being the least of worries.
 * PBLOG sites are not owned by their founders, and founders cannot own their site or risk disciplinary action from staff. Previously, PBLOG sites were owned by their founders, or any main admin that the founder picked when leaving.
 * PBLOG sites are required to enforce all of these new rules towards its community groups, and the new PBLOG site policies also extend towards these groups as well.
 * PBLOG sites are not allowed to have any external links, and there are no exceptions to this rule. Unlike some of the other newly implemented rules, this violation has been documented on numerous PBLOG sites, including the Calligraphy Deer PBLOG site, where the head admin, Danny Anguilla (also the creator of the Calligraphy Deer franchise in 2001), was forced by PBLOG staff to remove links taking users to his company's Facebook page.

Violations of the new rules are met with loss of admin rights, as well as additional disciplinary action, if determined by PBLOG staff. In extreme cases, the company may also get involved and permanently terminate access to any user who is in violation of the new rules. Even ATBW Blog companies such as CCTV Productions and Martha Woods Group are not exempt from the newly implemented rules, as MWG chairwoman Martha Woods was all banned from her own site by PBLOG staff for a period of 14 days for failing to enforce the new rules to the PBLOG site's community groups, and some prominent MWG personalities, including Clemma Rhodes, was banned from the site by PBLOG staff for seven days for abusing her group moderator privileges in her group.

See this article for more info.