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Changelog11/30/16. Added HIPAA Compliance and Patron Privacy section. 09/8/16. Added DMCA section. 06/25/15. Added "topics" to Other Rules section on "pointless" groups. 12/29/14. Added "Member recommendations" section to Terms of Use. These are long-standing rules that simply needed to be added here. 8/12/14. Added equal opportunity employer statement. 5/1/14. Added suggestive images of minors bullet. 1/27/11. Major design changes to page. No textual changes. 6/24/10. Made significant changes, especially to order and style. See old version, Wiki page, tracking changes and Talk topic. 5/27/10. Added plagiarism bullet. 12/15/08. Added "Disclaimers/Attributions" section. 3/25/08. Added "Review integrity" section. 10/31/08. Fixed a spelling error. 3/2/08. Fixed a spelling error. 2/29/08. Added italics, capital letters. 2/28/08. Clarified posting rules, which have been on and off this document and elsewhere on the site. Edited don't-dos to include impersonating someone else. 8/11/07. Reordered a bit; clarified that authors promoting their books is commercial. 7/12/07. Added prohibiton against duplicative or nonsense groups. 7/1/07. Added prohibition against reposting flagged content. 1/2/07. Added "Participating in Translation" link. Reordered items a bit. 12/17/06. Added "sock puppets" to "shell accounts." Edited some of the "don't be a jerk," for brevity not content. 12/11/06. Added "Participating in Talk and Groups." Removed "Intellectual Property and Reverse Engineering" clause. 9/11/06. Added part about use by booksellers to "Individual accounts". 8/21/06. Updated "Individual accounts" section to link to information about organizations. 4/3/06. Added section on "Automated Input and Retrieval," and second paragraph of "Individual accounts." 11/8/05. Added IP and reverse engineering clause. 11/8/05. Made it clearer that your username can't be an insult, general or specific, or use a term that suggests you run the website. 10/3/05. Added rule about empty libraries. |