Important - Regarding Financial Assistance & Donations

The following activities are now expressly PROHIBITED on both the Mudflats blog and Mudflats forums:

Soliciting financial assistance from the Mudflats community (including but not limited to cash, debt settlement, bill payment, and services).
Offering to provide any type of financial assistance to an individual.
Arranging for the donation of cash and/or services to an individual.
Arranging for the exchange of cash and/or services between individuals.

We want to make it extremely clear that this includes -

The Mudflats blog
The Mudflats blog comments area
The Mudflats forums
The Mudflats forum private messaging system
The Mudflats live chat area

The following guidelines will also now be in place:

Anyone who has information regarding any of the above activities is requested to report it immediately.
Anyone who has suspicions or misgivings about any situation or member on Mudflats is requested to report it immediately.
Anyone who receives a Private Message asking for money is requested to report that private message (click here for instructions on how to do this)

When you report something to us, anonymity is assured and your privacy will be protected.

Clearly the Mudflats team of moderators and administrators cannot and will not attempt to control what members do via private email accounts or other forms of communication.

However, for the good of our membership, we have an obligation to control what we allow on the blog and the forums, including via the private messaging system.

We do not want to outlaw generosity entirely.

The generosity and compassion found here is one of the best features of The Mudflats.

If at any time, people wish to collect money from mudpups for what they feel is a good reason, they should immediately approach the Admin team.

We respectfully request that forum members do not donate or loan any funds to anybody for any reason without contacting the Admins first.

If the Admin team determines it is a suitable reason to collect funds, it will be organized and administered by the Admins.

This will be done to ensure that any donations or loans are made via appropriate channels, and so that our forum staff are able to do some checking things out prior to any donations or loans being made.

What has caused this new rule to be created?

For more information on why we have created this rule, please see this thread - Important Announcement - Please Read.

If you have any questions -

Please click here to contact the admins via private message.

Alternatively, you can email us at unlocktroll at gmail dot com.