Part of the problem with the FAQ is that the *laws* are pretty darn unspecific in a number of ways. It's obviously been a while since I was doing this regularly, but type of content counts - stuff intended to be nudity for obvious nudity, showing bits normally covered by a swimsuit in the US, is likely to cause issues.
(Yes, this is parochial and stupid to boot, but that's the way US law works, and since htat's where the servers are, that's what wins.)
Given the size of the site, and *especially* given a bunch of the current stupidity about online content that MySpace is triggering in the media, there's also some particular caution going around right now.
Also, remember, there's nothing against having a nude userpic and just selecting it every time - the trick is that marking it as default means it turns up in site searches, and on your userinfo page (which means people may see it without realising they're going to be seeing nudity. For people, read 'people panic about 'young impressionable teens' seeing it', which again, is stupid and parochial, but tied up with the US's idiocies about sex and nudity in general, and the protect-children-at-all-cost stuff.
As far as the support post: I'm betting it's hard working support volunteers, bouncing everything to the relevant category. Throwing it to the public board is always fine: there's always someone around checking to move stuff quickly elsewhere if needed.
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(Yes, this is parochial and stupid to boot, but that's the way US law works, and since htat's where the servers are, that's what wins.)
Given the size of the site, and *especially* given a bunch of the current stupidity about online content that MySpace is triggering in the media, there's also some particular caution going around right now.
Also, remember, there's nothing against having a nude userpic and just selecting it every time - the trick is that marking it as default means it turns up in site searches, and on your userinfo page (which means people may see it without realising they're going to be seeing nudity. For people, read 'people panic about 'young impressionable teens' seeing it', which again, is stupid and parochial, but tied up with the US's idiocies about sex and nudity in general, and the protect-children-at-all-cost stuff.
As far as the support post: I'm betting it's hard working support volunteers, bouncing everything to the relevant category. Throwing it to the public board is always fine: there's always someone around checking to move stuff quickly elsewhere if needed.