Minitokyo Policy
For Members
MINITOKYO.NET TERMS OF SERVICE
MINITOKYO.NET TERMS OF SERVICE
This document is written on May 15th, 2007 by EternalParadox. It was last updated on May 15th, 2007.
I. Acceptance of Terms
I. Acceptance of Terms
Welcome to Minitokyo.net ("Minitokyo"). Minitokyo provides free membership benefits and services to you pursuant of the following Terms of Service ("Policy"). The Policy may be updated at any time by the staff of Minitokyo without warning to you. You may visit this page to view the most updated version of the Policy. In addition, when using particular services offered by Minitokyo, you may be subject to any posted guidelines and/or rules applicable to such services, which may also be updated by the Minitokyo staff at any time. All such guidelines and rules are hereby incorporated into the Policy and will carry equal enforceability as the Policy.
The Minitokyo staff (moderators) has exclusive responsibility and right to arbitrate and enforce this Policy. You agree that moderator decisions are final and are binding to all members.
II. Description of Services Provided
II. Description of Services Provided
Minitokyo is a free, member-based online community focused on promoting fan-made artwork of anime, manga, and other related materials. Minitokyo offers users access to a variety of artwork and resources, including original wallpapers, drawings (doujinshi), forums, and reviews ("Member Services"). By registering as a member of Minitokyo, you understand that Member Services may include third-party advertisements and that these advertisements are necessary for Minitokyo to continue to provide Member Services. You also understand that you may receive communications from the Minitokyo staff, including but not limited to system notifications, private messages from the staff, official forum postings, and news announcements. You understand that you will not be able to opt out of receiving these official communications.
Unless otherwise indicated by the Minitokyo staff, any new services or features added in the future shall be subject to the Policy. You understand that Minitokyo is a fan-made community and that while the Minitokyo staff will make all reasonable efforts to correct any errors of the system or of content, the Minitokyo staff cannot guarantee the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or failure to store any user-submitted contents, communications, or personalized settings.
III. Membership Obligations
III. Membership Obligations
Upon registering for membership of Minitokyo, you represent that you are not a person legally barred from receiving Member Services under the laws of any local or international jurisdiction. You agree to provide accurate and true information about yourself, including information marked as "Optional" on the Registration Form. You also understand that the personal photograph on your member user page must be an actual photograph of yourself and that any other image used will be deleted without warning.
You agree to be solely responsible for all materials submitted to Minitokyo. You understand that you are prohibited from submitting or posting any information or material of any kind that is or encourages conduct constituting a criminal offense, incurs civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, provincial, national, or international law. You understand that by submitting your work to Minitokyo, you grant Minitokyo the unlimited right to store, present, redistribute, republish, or reformat materials to other Minitokyo members pursuant of this Policy. Minitokyo does not claim ownership of any kind of any of the materials submitted by its members, and you understand that Minitokyo is not legally responsible to any of materials submitted.
You understand that Minitokyo will access and disclose your account and all information and materials you have submitted if required to do so by law or in good faith belief that such action will be necessary to comply with a legal process, protect members of Minitokyo, enforce the Policy, or respond to your requests or claims.
IV. Membership Accounts
IV. Membership Accounts
You agree that you are allowed to create one (1) membership account on Minitokyo. You understand that if you create multiple membership accounts for any reason other than extreme technical difficulty resulting from a malfunction of the Minitokyo website and with the approval of the Minitokyo staff, Minitokyo has the right to ban all of your accounts without warning and may institute a ban on your IP address.
You agree that you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password. You are fully responsible for all activities that take place under your account. Minitokyo will not be liable for any damages, such as loss of submitted materials, that arise from member activities under your account.
You are allowed to create a unique avatar icon and a unique signature image to append to your posts. These images must conform to the standards set forth in the Policy and must adhere to these additional rules:
- The avatar icon must be 50x50 pixels in size and be an image of the .gif file type.
- The signature image has a maximum size of 468x60 pixels. Signature images may not exceed this size. All signature images must be uploaded to Minitokyo. You may not use externally hosted images for a signature. In cases where you use text for you signature, your signature may not exceed four (4) lines of text.
V. Member Conduct
V. Member Conduct
Minitokyo strives to be a family-friendly community. Minitokyo is concerned for the safety and well-being of all its users, regardless of age, nationality, ethnicity, religion, or gender. Minitokyo is an open community and has members who are children under the age of 13. You therefore understand that in order to protect these members, Minitokyo prohibits all members from submitting or posting any material that is harmful, insulting, threatening, abusive, invasive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, hateful, racially or otherwise objectionable. You understand that submitting or posting any such material will result in a reduction of your membership privileges or a ban on your membership account.
Minitokyo is an international community. As such, Minitokyo uses English as its official language of communication in all public areas of the community. As a member, you must use English in these areas, which include the galleries, the forums, and the reviews. You may use a different language in private communications, such as personal messages to other members, or communication within groups. Please note that Minitokyo does not currently support non-roman alphabets or characters.
As a member of Minitokyo, you agree not to use Membership Services to:
- impersonate any person or organization, including but not limited to other Minitokyo members, the Minitokyo staff, and other recognized persons, groups, or organizations that is not yourself.
- submit, post, or otherwise transmit any material that contains viruses or other computer code, files, or programs intended to interfere with or destroy the normal operations of any computer software or hardware.
- submit, post, or otherwise transmit non-pertinent and non-requested messages constituting "spam."
- disrupt or interfere with Minitokyo's Membership Services or servers, networks or any other equipment connected with the service, or disobey any guidelines, rules, or policies connected to Minitokyo and its Membership Services.
- submit, post, or otherwise transmit any information in violation of any application law.
- collect or store personal data of any member in a manner constituting a prohibited conduct outlined in the item above.
- "stalk" or otherwise harass any member.
You understand that Minitokyo and its staff have the right to remove any content that is in violation of this Policy and enforce membership restrictions on any member found in violation of this Policy.
IV. Content Policy
IV. Content Policy
The following sections shall outline the terms and policies applicable to each section of Minitokyo. These sections shall be:
- Gallery,
- Forums and Gallery Comments,
- Groups,
- Reviews, and
- Categories
The Gallery
The Gallery
Minitokyo endeavors to present only artwork of the highest quality. To that end, the Minitokyo staff shall delete any materials that do not meet a certain minimum standard of quality. Minitokyo moderators reserve the right to delete any submission of low quality, even if these submissions otherwise conform to the Policy. You may not resubmit any work that has been deleted by the Minitokyo staff without the express written approval of a Minitokyo moderator.
You must provide a relevant description of all gallery items you submit. Minitokyo moderators will delete any submission with a description that is incomplete, irrelevant, incomprehensible, or plagiarized.
You may not submit any image that is mature in nature. Minitokyo considers an image to be mature content if it is explicity pornographic, contains scenes of sexual acts, undressing, sexual poses, extreme violence, and any other imagery deemed non-suitable for a family audience by the Minitokyo staff.
The Gallery is divided into two types: the Art Gallery and the Scans Gallery. The Art Gallery contains all member-created artwork; the Scans Gallery contain all scanned official images.
All submissions must be in Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) format and may not exceed two (2) megabytes in file size or twenty-five (25) million total pixels in resolution.
Art Gallery
You must submit all artwork and scans to the proper categories. If a category does not exist, you may submit artwork in the category "Other."
You may not submit any unmodified, partially modified, or otherwise unoriginal artwork to the Art Gallery. Such items will be considered "ripped" and will be immediately deleted upon discovery. You may not submit ripped artwork even if the original creator gave you express consent.
You may not submit multiple versions of the same artwork. In cases where multiple versions exist, you must choose only one (1) version to submit to Minitokyo and use a third-party image hosting service to upload the alternate versions. You may append an URL link to alternate versions in the description of your submission to Minitokyo.
You may not submit any artwork which when viewed is clearly indicative of extremely low quality and effort. The following compositional and technical weaknesses may result in the deletion of your artwork if they are significantly present in the submission:
- poor extraction, including obvious and apparent scan extraction edges,
- doodles, or other items exhibiting obvious poor planning,
- blurriness,
- extreme pixilation,
- enlarging of original scan image,
- no effort in integrating the background and foreground,
- "brush-whore" or "filter-whore," depending on overall quality,
- "ghosting," the use of a character image on low opacity in the background,
- collages of small scan images without visible effort at composition or incorporation, or
- lack of effort in any area.
The Art Gallery contains two classifications, the General and the Elite Gallery. The Elite Gallery contains submissions of notably high quality. Members have the option to view only the Elite Gallery or both. Inclusion of artwork in the Elite Gallery is the sole discretion of the Minitokyo staff. You may not request that your submissions be added to the Elite Gallery.
The following criteria determine the inclusion of artwork in the Elite Gallery:
- Completed artwork which shows no immediately apparent or significant technical or compositional weaknesses.
- Artwork that demonstrate thoughtful incorporation of a variety of techniques, proper placement of focal point, balanced composition, and expression of concepts or emotions.
- Proper descriptions must be included for consideration for inclusion in the Elite Gallery. Proper descriptions should generally include: number of layers, brushes/effects/techniques used, links to scans or stock images in the submission, proper credit to members for scans/scan websites/vectors, collaborating artists if relevant, difficulties and obstacles encountered in creating the artwork, time spent, and the artist's personal judgment on how effectively the piece achieve the original concepts.
The Art Gallery contains the following types of artwork.
- Wallpaper submissions must be in standard, fixed resolutions. Minitokyo currently supports the following list of common resolutions:
- 4:3 and 5:4 Aspect Ratio
- 1024x768
- 1152x864
- 1280x960
- 1280x1024
- 1600x1200
- 2048x1536
- 16:9 Aspect Ratio
- 1280x720
- 1280x768
- 1600x900
- 1920x1080
- 1920x1200
- Dual-screen Resolutions
- 2304x864
- 2048x768
- 2560x960
- 2560x1024
- 4096x1536
- In anime wallpapers, you must prominently feature at least one anime, manga, or related character, which cannot be used for background purposes. In general wallpapers, you must feature an appropriate subject pursuant of other terms outlined in the Policy.
- You may not use unmodified stock images for background purposes. For the purposes of this policy, an image is "unmodified" if it has not undergone any editing or if it has undergone only basic editing, such as resizing, retouching, or cropping.
- Submissions must have a minimum of six-hundred-thousand (600,000) pixels.
- Doujinshi must feature a manga, anime, or related character or be draw in the style typically associated with manga and anime.
- You may not submit drawings done on lined notebook paper or other unsuitable stationery.
- You may not submit digital photographs of your drawings. All doujinshi submissions must be properly scanned using a scanner.
- Vector art must be created using appropriate vector graphics software. You may not submit works that use filters or other image editing tools which mimic vector graphics.
Wallpapers
Doujinshi
Vector Art
Scans Gallery
Scans must have a minimum of one million (1,000,000) pixels. You may not enlarge scans to meet this requirement.
Scans may be monochrome or in full color. You must submit monochrome scans in the monochrome section to distinguish them from other scans.
You may not submit scans which contain excessive artifacts, folds, noise, or which are blurred, over or under-saturated, too dark or too bright, or a screenshot. When appropriate, you may use image editing software to clean up scans and submit higher quality versions.
You must search in the Scans gallery for existing copies of your scan. You may not submit duplicate copies of the same scan unless your scan is of significantly higher quality. The Minitokyo staff reserve the right to determine whether new submissions are of significantly higher quality.
You must provide proper credit to the sources from which you obtained your scans. The term "not my scan" or any of its variants may only be used if you do not have and cannot obtain with reasonable effort full credit for the scan. If the scan is from a third party image site, you must provide the URL link to the original image in the gallery description. By submitting third-party scans to Minitokyo, you understand that scans from certain image sites are not permitted for submission and that it is your responsibility to check the FAQ section for the most updated list of non-permissible sites.
The Forums and Gallery Comments
The Forums and Gallery Comments
By posting in the forums, you understand that Minitokyo is not responsible for the posts made by its members and that the content of the forums does not reflect the views of Minitokyo or its staff. You agree to not hold Minitokyo or its staff liable for the accuracy of the information presented by members in the forums.
You must post all new forum threads in the appropriate forum section. You must make a reasonable effort to search the forums for existing threads on the same topic you wish to discuss. In cases where the existing thread have not had a new posting in over 4 weeks, you may open a new thread on the same topic. In most cases, you may not revive a thread which had not received posts in a substantial amount of time unless you have information that is of significant value to the discussion.
You may not submit any posts which are not germane to the topic of the thread or of the artwork you are viewing. You may not respond to threads with knowingly false information.
You must provide references for all information which are not common knowledge. In cases where extensive quotations of long passages of text is necessary, you must use the appropriate quotations tag mark in Minitokyo's supported BBCode. You may not submit posts consisting entirely of quoted passages; you must provide your own original input.
You may not inflate the character count of your posts with duplicate trains of meaningless characters. Such posts will be considered spam and will be deleted without warning.
Reviews
Reviews
You must write your own original reviews. You may not use reviews found on third-party websites or online communities. All content in reviews must be your own work.
You may not submit reviews for unfinished series. Minitokyo aims to provide members with a holistic view of different series, and you must wait until a series finishes airing or serialization before submitting a review.
Groups
Groups
Minitokyo provides members the option to create groups and join others who share similar interests. Groups are a venue for members to exchange ideas, share artwork, discuss commonalities, and provide support for each other. To this purpose, Minitokyo allows groups some autonomy in determining their subject, membership criteria, language, and rules of conduct.
By joining or creating groups, you understand that groups and their content remain under the jurisdiction of the Minitokyo Policy and that the Minitokyo staff reserve the right to delete any groups deemed in violation of the Policy. You may not create groups with an exactly duplicate purpose as another, such as groups for fans of the same anime series or character. You understand that Minitokyo moderators will issue warnings to duplicate and inactive groups one week prior to deleting the duplicate group and that it is your responsibility to save any documents, non-gallery images, and contact information from the groups designated for deletion and to rejoin the existing group. You agree to not hold Minitokyo or its staff liable for any loss of data resulting from your group's deletion.
Categories
Categories
Minitokyo maintains a database of anime and manga series as well as production studios and artists, each with a specific category. Minitokyo staff rely on member contributions to ensure the accuracy of the information in this database.
By submitting a category request, you agree to observe all pertinent guidelines for such requests. In addition, you understand that category banners must be 960x250 pixels in size and must be your original work. Furthermore, you may not use third-party sites for the plot synopsis of anime or manga series. Such prohibited third-party sites include but is not limited to AnimeNewsNetwork, Wikipedia, and AnimeNfo.