GamingOnLinux.com User Safety Notice
Last updated: 18th December, 2024.
You can contact us any time using this email: [email protected]. This goes direct to the owner, Liam Dawe. Please do get in touch if you're concerned with anything, have complaints or if you feel we need to update this page.
We also suggest you read our Ethics policy, which also contains information on our affiliate programs. And also our Privacy Policy.
What is this page?
This page describes our focus on user safety including for children, and protections against harm.
What we do
User registration: we have clear rules on acceptable content, and an age gate.
We have active moderation systems in place. Any time a new user registers, their posts go through manual approval for a while before we're satisfied that they're a legimate account.
We do not allow users to privately message each other. This is reserved only for moderators to do moderation and site admin.
We do not allow users to post in a forum. The current forum only allows staff to post so there is no user-generated content there.
Our search systems do not search other websites, they're only internal searches. So we control the content from searches.
Uploaded Media / User Generated Content
Registered users can comment on published articles. This is to discuss the subject. Available on every single article comment is a dedicated Report icon, allowing registered users to submit a complaint about any individual comment. This includes clear options for reporting anything harmful, illegal, spam and more. Inside article comments users can not directly upload any media, only text. While users can hotlink to images and YouTube videos hosted elsewhere, this is opt-in, they are not displayed to the public by default.
Registered users can submit an article, but this goes through manual approvals where we check over everything first and we don't always publish what's sent in. On this form, users can upload media, but again, we check it directly before anyone sees it. And naturally, any harmful content will not be published and will be promptly removed. If someone used this submissions form to upload harmful media (so it's hosted by us), but didn't submit the article, the uploaded media is auto-deleted by our systems after 24 hours.
Registered users can upload a small avatar image. The avatar is seen on their profile and next to their article comments. Users can report a profile directly and we can easily remove and ban people who put up a harmful avatar.
Registered users can upload a small author photo. For submissions the author photo is only ever shown in public to users below a manually approved and published article and so we moderate it and check it's okay before publishing. Our team also have their author photos displayed on the About Us page.
Registered users can block another user easily too, so they don't have to see any comments from specified users if they don't wish to. Users can do the same with our directly published article content too, they can block specific content tags if they don't wish to see them in the article list.
If a registered user's profile has been reported to us, we have moderation features to completely wipe their profile if required to ensure any harmful content is promptly removed including any links and their avatar.
We have a clear email address listed in many places for users to contact directly.