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Happy New Year Everyone!

We hope you all had a great holiday season and an awesome NYE, which I hope everyone is now fully recovered from… There’s been a lot of talk on the feedback group and on the site in general about the use of non-user created images, i.e. Google Images or pictures from Flickr, generating Bragging Rights. We have been listening, and we wanted to spend some time figuring out the best way to handle the issue. So here’s how it’s going to play out. We are re-jigging the magical Bragging Rights algorithm that calculates how you get them, and we are implementing new guidelines as a way to moderate and monitor the content that’s uploaded to the site. This list isn’t just about Bragging Rights, but is also a way to make sure that everyone in the community is happy and jerk free. Have a read:

I did it: bragster is for bragging about things YOU have done, not things you’ve found on the interwebs. Brags should be videos and pictures of you doing something or of something you have done, so don’t start running around posting stuff you find on Flickr and Google Images and claiming it’s you. If you do, we’ll get rid of your Bragging Rights for that brag, and you will make people very upset…

You: There’s only one of you, so you can only have one account. If we find out you have more than one account, we’ll delete the latest one you made and then we’ll send you some really assy messages about not following these guidelines. You really don’t want to get any of those, do you?

Porn/Nudity: We’re not prudes over here, but we’re also not a porn site. Our stance on nudity is that it’s all good if it’s the nature of a dare or a brag, but this isn’t the place for gratuitous sexual nudity. There are plenty of places for you to go find that. It’s kind of a grey area, and we reserve the right to be all sorts of draconian about it, so if we delete something and you think we’re being assholes, let us know, and we’ll take another look at it.

Profile Pictures: Everyone can see your profile image, so don’t upload anything with nudity or you doing anything illegal. Try to remember the children, apparently they are the future.

Spam/Commercial Purposes: bragster is for you, the person, not you, the bid’niss man. If you want to advertise your product with us, get in touch, and we’ll work something out. We’ve got bills to pay too, you know!

You, me and everyone else: Please don’t be an asshole. You can talk a little trash here and there, and we’re cool with questionable-in-polite-company language, but we are not ok with inflammatory, racist or hate speech. If you do this, we’ll either warn you or terminate your account straight away. One more time for good measure, if you act like a little bitch, we’ll treat you like one. Natch.

Sex/Getting a Date: If you want to do that, we recommend the following sites for finding the perfect mate/sex partner: Nerve, OKCupid and Match Seriously, don’t dare someone to have sex with you, or take their clothes off, or show their tits (There are girls on this site? No way!) or anything else similar to that. One day we might think about launching an adult version of bragster, but for now keep your bragging out of the gutter and in the half pipe.

Danger! Danger!: We know that you’re going to be doing some pretty badass stuff, but we really don’t want you to hurt yourself if you’re doing something you’ve seen on bragster. Always remember to take precautions if you’re going to try something new or dangerous and know your own limits. We are not responsible for anything you do.

Don’t hesitate to click on the report link if you see anything that you think violates any of this on the site. If any of it is confusing or doesn’t make sense, drop us a line, and we’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have.