COMMUNITY GUIDELINES
1. Be respectful to other users.
2. Do not post the personal information of others.
3. Racism, sexism, homophobia, antisemitism, and other forms of bigotry are not tolerated.
4. Do not spam.
5. Do not post illegal or potentially dangerous content.
6. Posts that contain irrelevant, low-effort content, such as single words, may be denied.
7. Image posts that contain nudity in non-art contexts, self-injury, graphic violence, or other potentially disturbing content may be denied. Image posts that contain intellectual property violations may be denied.
FAQ
Your comment may not be showing up for multiple reasons. If your comment was submitted anonymously, the moderators may have not got around to reviewing it yet, or it may been denied. Otherwise, your comment may have been automatically deleted for containing potentially dangerous content. Finally, your comment may have been manually removed by a moderator for violating our community guidelines.
If your post is not showing up, it either means that it has not yet been approved by our moderators, or it was rejected for not being compliant with our community guidelines. To familiarize yourself with our community guidelines, please visit the top of the About Page.
There are 3 kinds of submit forms we support: built-in, verified Google Form, and unverified Google Form. Our built-in submit form performs a check to see if the user is logged in with a Brown email. If so, the post is deemed "verified" upon submission, but no information tying the post to the user is stored.
The Google Forms are provided for those who perhaps do not feel comfortable using a form built in to our site, or simply prefer the experience of typing in a Google Form.
No form possesses any advantage over the others.
Clicking the icon at the bottom left of a new comment box will toggle a comment to be anonymous. Clicking the icon that now appears will return it to being public.
No. dearblueno.net was created by a group of Brown University students following the deletion of the DB Facebook Group. While we did reach out to the original DB and BBA mods, we unfortunately did not receive a response. dearblueno.net is a community-based project, and we are open to working with anyone that is interested in helping us maintain the site.
PRIVACY POLICY
The developers of dearblueno.net ("we", "us", "our") are committed to privacy. On posts and anonymous comments, no information whatsoever is linked to an individual's identity. It is impossible for anyone, even the developers of dearblueno.net, to know who the original poster is.
For user account registration and authentication, we make use of Google OAuth2. When you choose to login to an account, we store a cookie with a user session id that allows us to keep you signed-in to your account across multiple visits in the same browser. For users that choose to login with Google, we receive some basic Google account details, including your email address, profile picture, and name. We cannot modify these Google account details, nor do we receive any sensitive information from Google, such as passwords. For more information regarding how Google handles your information, please visit Google's Privacy Policy.
To run our services, we store some basic information alongside your account. This includes the posts that you have subscribed to, the posts that you have bookmarked, and your daily login streak. On posts and comments, we store the user ids of users that have reacted to the post or comment. We do not store the author of the post or anonymous comment. Data about subscribed posts, bookmarked posts, and reactions are considered private and are not publicly visible.
For content optimization, we make use of both the Cloudflare content delivery network and the Vercel content delivery network. For image optimization, we use Imgur to store and host images. Images uploaded to dearblueno.net are stored on Imgur, and then are embedded on our site. For more information regarding how Imgur handles your information, please visit Imgur's Privacy Policy.
For web and mobile analytics, we make use of Cloudflare Web Analytics. Cloudflare Web Analytics is a privacy-friendly analytics platform that tracks general device information such as your operating system and browser type, but does not use a tracking beacon or any cookies. Thus, this analytic information is not linked to your account or identity. For more information regarding how Cloudflare handles your information, please visit the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.
All data needed to operate dearblueno.net, as described above, is stored in a self-hosted MongoDB database. All data is encrypted during transit as per industry standards.
We do not and will not sell, share, or rent your personal information to any third parties. We do not and will not use your personal information to track you across the internet or serve you targeted advertisements. All data handled by the site is encrypted during transit. Due to the nature of our site, most non-personal information is publicly visible and transparently accessible to the public.
As part of our commitment to transparency, the entirety of our code is open source. It can be found at this GitHub repository and is licensed under the AGPLv3 license.
CONTACT
For any questions/comments regarding the website, suggestions, feedback, bugs, or business inquires, please contact us at developers@dearblueno.net.
DISCLAIMER
The approval or denial of submitted content is determined by the moderators. Actions taken upon submitted content are in no way reflective of the views, opinions, or feelings of the moderator team, nor the developers.