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                <h1 class="title">Frequently Asked Questions</h1>
                <h2 class="subtitle">And some that nobody asked</h2>
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        <ul>
            <li>
                <a href="#certification-faqs">Certification FAQs</a>
                <ul>
                    <li><a href="#certification">What does <strong>certification</strong> mean, and what is a <strong>"verification selfie"</strong>?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#need-certification">Do I <strong>need</strong> to send a "verification selfie"?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#why-certify">Why the hard requirement to certify?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#cannot-certify">Are there <strong>alternative options</strong> to becoming Certified?</a></li>

                    <li><a href="#uncertified">What can non-certified members do?</a></li>

                </ul>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="#privacy-faqs">Privacy FAQs</a>
                <ul>
                    <li><a href="#private-avatar">Can my <strong>Profile Picture be kept private?</strong></a></li>
                    <li><a href="#profile-visibility">What are the <strong>visibility options</strong> for my profile page?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#delete-messages">How do I delete direct messages (DMs)?</a></li>
                </ul>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="#photo-faqs">Photo FAQs</a>
                <ul>
                    <li><a href="#nudes-required">Do I have to post my nudes here?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#face-in-nudes">Do I have to include my face in my nudes?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#site-gallery">What appears on the Site Gallery?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#define-explicit">What is considered "explicit" in photos?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#downloading">Does this site <strong>prevent people from downloading</strong> my pictures?</a></li>
                </ul>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="#forum-faqs">Forum FAQs</a>
                <ul>
                    <li><a href="#forum-badges">What do the various badges on the forum mean?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#create-forums">Can I create my own forums?</a></li>

                </ul>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="#technical-faqs">Technical FAQs</a>
                <ul>
                    <li><a href="#why">Why did you build a custom website?</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#open-source">Is this website open source?</a></li>
                </ul>
            </li>
        </ul>

        <h1 id="certification-faqs">Certification FAQs</h1>

        <h3 id="certification">What does certification mean, and what is a "verification selfie"?</h3>

        <p>
            This website requires all members to be "certified" or proven to be real human beings
            on the other side of the keyboard. A "verification selfie" is where you take a picture
            of yourself holding onto a hand-written note on a sheet of paper to prove that you are
            a real person (and not just catfishing with somebody else's stolen photos).
        </p>

        <p>
            Certification helps protect our members from harassment by anonymous trolls or automated
            spam robots that plague other similar sites.
        </p>

        <h3 id="need-certification">Do I need to send a "verification selfie"?</h3>

        <p>
            Yes.
        </p>

        <p>
            Certification is required before you can gain access to the greater community on this
            website. Pre-certification, you may only access your own profile page and settings, but
            can not browse the member list, see the site Photo Gallery, or participate on the forums
            until your profile has been certified.
        </p>

        <p>
            Your certification photo is <em>only</em> seen by site administrators and does not appear
            on your profile page.
        </p>

        <h3 id="why-certify">Why the hard requirement to certify?</h3>

        <p>

            I didn't set out to build "just another social network" that allows for random, faceless, anonymous
            people to sign up - you can do that literally anywhere else. This website was designed
            <em>specifically</em> to get ahead of what happened with Tumblr, Pornhub and other sites
            in recent history. It wasn't just a random whim of Tumblr when they kicked all of the nudists
            and other NSFW users off of their platform -- they were pressured to do so by a vocal minority
            of anti-porn prudes who have been working their way across the Internet and trying to make sure
            that nudists, exhibitionists, porn stars and sex workers have no place at all to exist online.
        </p>

        <p>
            I have been watching how these groups operate. They throw out wild claims that a website like
            Tumblr or Pornhub is running rampant with illegal content (such as child sexually abusive material,
            human trafficking, revenge porn or so on) and use that as a scapegoat to put pressure on a website
            via the banks and advertisers into either bending the knee or shutting down completely. Tumblr elected
            to just blanket ban all NSFW users from the platform, Pornhub deleted 80% of all user content from their
            site, and Onlyfans nearly fell as well (before they decided instead to require government-issued photo
            ID from their members, which I do not want to do).
        </p>

        <p>
            This group wildly exaggerates statistics and misrepresents their finding to push along an agenda
            which is <em>really</em> just anti-porn, period; but the fact of the matter is that <em>any</em> wide
            open public website that allows random people to just sign up and start posting things will always
            technically leave room for those kinds of claims to be thrown around. If a website doesn't require a
            user to verify their face, you'll get bad actors who sign up blank, throwaway accounts (probably hiding
            behind a VPN, too, to conceal their location) and start spreading god awful things on a site and it becomes
            a game of whack-a-mole for site moderators to keep on top of (not to mention the trauma it causes for
            moderators who need to deal with all that shit). I don't want <em>any</em> of that nonsense
            on this website.
        </p>

        <p>
            The certification requirement should help curb a lot of that and bring some other nice benefits
            besides for the other members of this site:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                It will deter blank, faceless profiles from signing up and then sliding into your DMs and getting
                all pervy and weird on you. This happens <em>so freaking often</em> on other nudist websites and
                nobody likes that - we are here posting our nude pics out in the open and don't want random anonymous
                creepers who won't reveal themselves in an equally meaningful way.
            </li>
            <li>
                It will help keep automated spam robots at bay; a non-certified account will have a terrible time
                trying to discover any user here that they could send their spam to, as the Forums, Member Directory
                and Site Photo Gallery are off-limits to non-certified users.
            </li>
            <li>
                It will keep members accountable: I don't expect anyone would dare upload illegal content here when
                their certified face picture is on file.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <p>
            I understand that certification may be inconvenient for some members. I know there are plenty of people
            for whom it isn't a concern at all. I may be able to work with you on an alternative method for certification;
            see the next section, below.
        </p>

        <h3 id="cannot-certify">Are there alternative options to becoming Certified?</h3>

        <p>
            I understand that some nudists need to exercise a degree of discretion and will
            not want to take a face pic with {{PrettyTitle}}'s name and upload that <em>anywhere at all</em> onto the Internet. For
            example if you are a teacher or work in law enforcement or the clergy and you need to keep
            careful control of your image online because the world isn't quite enlightened enough yet
            when it comes to nudity and sexuality.
        </p>

        <p>
            These are very valid concerns and can be handled on a case-by-case basis. The
            main thing I'm looking for in certification is to prove that you're a real person,
            you look like your pictures here and that you're not a minor. Send a DM to
            <a href="/messages/compose?to=introvertnudist">u/introvertnudist</a>
            to inquire about alternative verification methods, which may include just hopping on a
            quick video call with a site admin.
        </p>

        <p>
            Note, though: this is a social site for {{PrettyTitle}} nudists so you <strong>are</strong>
            expected to post at least <em>some</em> pictures of yourself on your profile page. A face
            pic (at least a clothed, G-rated selfie) as your default profile picture is highly encouraged,
            and the rest of your pics you can leave your face cropped or censored out of. And your profile
            picture can be marked private or "friends only" if you like; see below.
        </p>

        <h3 id="uncertified">What can non-certified members do?</h3>

        <p>
            Before you have an approved certification photo, you can mainly only access and edit your
            own profile page, and upload a few pictures while you await approval. Your pictures won't
            be shown to members on the Site Gallery until you're certified, and most of the website's
            features (namely, the Forums, Site Gallery and Member Search Directory) are gated behind
            certification.
        </p>

        <p>
            Certified members may, at their own discretion, be able to find your profile page by
            browsing the Member Directory. They may send you a friend request or reach out to you.
            Or, if you happen to know a member's profile URL on this site, you (the non-certified
            member) can view their profile page and photo gallery (depending on their privacy
            settings), send them a friend request or direct message. But basically, it will be
            difficult to discover users to interact with until after you are certified - and
            this is intentional to help guard against spam bots and creepy people.
        </p>

        <h2 id="privacy-faqs">Privacy FAQs</h2>

        <h3 id="private-avatar">Can my Profile Picture be kept private?</h3>

        <p>
            You <em>may</em> set your Profile Picture to be "Friends only" or "Private" visibility
            if you wish to be more discreet about your face pictures.
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                <strong class="has-text-warning-dark">Friends only</strong>
                <i class="fa fa-users has-text-warning-dark"></i>:
                your profile pic displays as a yellow
                <img src="/static/img/shy-friends.png" width="16" height="16">
                placeholder image for people who are not on your <a href="/friends">Friends</a> list.
            </li>
            <li>
                <strong class="has-text-private">Private</strong>
                <i class="fa fa-lock has-text-private"></i>:
                your profile pic displays as a purple
                <img src="/static/img/shy-private.png" width="16" height="16">
                placeholder image for everybody except for people that you had
                <a href="/photo/private">granted access</a> to see your
                private photos.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <h3 id="profile-visibility">What are the visibility options for my profile page?</h3>

        <p>
            There are currently three different choices for your profile visibility on your
            <a href="/settings">Settings</a> page:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                The <strong>default</strong> visibility is <strong class="has-text-success-dark">"Public + Login Required."</strong> Users must be
                logged-in to an account in order to see anything about your profile page - if an
                external (logged out) browser visits your profile URL, they will be redirected to
                log in to an account first.
            </li>
            <li>
                You may optionally go <em>more</em> public with a <strong class="has-text-warning-dark">"Limited Logged-out View."</strong>
                This enables your profile URL (e.g.,
                {{if .LoggedIn}}<a href="/u/{{.CurrentUser.Username}}?view=external">/u/{{.CurrentUser.Username}}</a>{{else}}/u/username{{end}})
                to show a <em>basic</em> page (with your square profile picture and display name) to
                logged-out browsers. This may be useful if you wish to link to your page from an external
                site (e.g. your Twitter page) and present new users with a better experience than just
                a redirect to login page.
            </li>
            <li>
                You may <strong class="has-text-private">"Mark my profile as 'private'"</strong> to
                be private even from other logged-in members who are not on your Friends
                list. Logged-in users will see only your square profile picture and display
                name, and be able only to send you a friend request or a message.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <h3 id="delete-messages">How do I delete direct messages (DMs)?</h3>

        <p>
            You have two options for deleting your private one-on-one chat messages.
        </p>

        <p>
            You can delete <strong>your own</strong> messages by clicking on the "Delete"
            button that appears below them. This deletes your message from <em>both</em> of
            your threads, and (if unread), will not notify them that they had an unread
            message.
        </p>

        <p>
            You can delete <strong>the whole thread</strong> by using the "Delete whole thread"
            button at the bottom of the conversation. This will remove <em>both</em> of your
            chat history with one another and make it like you never exchanged a DM before
            at all.
        </p>

        <h1 id="photo-faqs">Photo FAQs</h1>

        <h3 id="nudes-required">Do I have to post my nudes here?</h3>

        <p>
            You should be comfortable with doing so, but it isn't a hard requirement. On some
            other nudist social websites, many nudists have lamented to me about how often they
            get messages by anonymous, faceless profiles who slide into their DMs and get all
            pervy and weird on them. While {{PrettyTitle}} only requires a face pic and verification
            selfie, other members will feel more comfortable if you post some of your own nudes as well.
        </p>

        <p>
            It's kind of like nude beach etiquette: no nudist at a nude beach enjoys it much when
            people arrive who refuse to get naked and they're just there to gawk and be a peeping
            tom and perv out over all the naked bodies they see. If you don't want to post any
            nudes here, at least don't act weird or creepy with people here.
        </p>

        <h3 id="face-in-nudes">Do I have to include my face in my nudes?</h3>

        <p>
            You don't have to! I know many nudists are not comfortable with their face appearing
            in their nudes. You are free to post "headless torso shots" or leave your face
            covered or censored. But you should have at least one face pic (as your default profile
            pic) - it can be a G-rated selfie!
        </p>

        <p>
            If you're only comfortable with posting like close-up dick pics, please mark those pics
            as "explicit" -- many nudists prefer to see the <em>whole</em> nude body and don't
            want to see just dick pics everywhere. And don't set those as your default profile pic!
        </p>

        <h3 id="site-gallery">What appears on the Site Gallery?</h3>

        <p>
            The "<strong><i class="fa fa-image"></i> Gallery</strong>" link on the site nav bar goes to the Site-wide
            Photo Gallery page. Here is shown all of the <strong>public</strong> photos uploaded by
            all (certified) users, if those pictures are also opted-in to appear on the Gallery in
            their settings.
        </p>

        <p>
            If you have friends on here, you may also see their "Friends-only" photos on the Site
            Gallery. This way, you don't miss any updates if your friends add a new picture (so
            long as they allow their picture to appear on the Gallery).
        </p>

        <p>
            When you upload a picture you may opt it in or out of the Gallery by checking a box on
            its settings page. For example, you can upload a Public photo but opt it <em>out</em> of
            the Gallery -- it will then only appear on your profile page.
        </p>

        <h3 id="define-explicit">What is considered "explicit" in photos?</h3>

        <p>
            On this website, I make a fairly common distinction between what's a "normal nude" and
            what's an "explicit" photo:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                "Normal nudes" are completely non-sexual in nature. If there's a penis, it's not
                erect and it's not being grabbed. "Normal nudes" are not close-up pictures that
                focus on the genitals, but tend to be full body shots of a non-sexual nature.
            </li>
            <li>
                "Explicit" posts are everything else: if it includes an erection, or you're
                grabbing your junk, or flashing your various holes, or masturbating or engaging
                in a sexual activity, these all fall under the "explicit" umbrella. If one would
                reasonably consider it to be porn, it's explicit.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <p>
            You are permitted to upload explicit content to your profile, just mark which pictures
            are explicit to help the rest of the community in case someone prefers not to see that.
            You can enable a setting on your profile if you are comfortable with seeing explicit
            content from other users -- by default this site is "normal nudes" friendly!
        </p>

        <h3 id="downloading">Does this site prevent people from downloading my pictures?</h3>

        <p>
            This website does not go out of its way to prevent people from downloading pictures, and
            nor will it pretend to. This is actually a very difficult problem to solve in the year {{.YYYY}}.
        </p>

        <p>
            I <em>could</em> add some JavaScripts that prevent right-clicking on my pages so you can't
            just "Save image as," but this would only deter desktop (mouse &amp; keyboard) users and is easy
            to work around. I <em>could</em> place a transparent image over top of all your pictures like
            Instagram does and if you try and save it, you just get a one-pixel transparent GIF; but this
            is trivially defeated by any novice web designer by just right-clicking, "Inspect element" and
            deleting it from the web page to get at the photo it was protecting.
        </p>

        <p>
            And people can always just screenshot the whole web page - and a web page can't do anything
            at all to prevent that. With mobile phones this is an especially easy and common thing to
            do. Any mild measures this site could take to deter downloading would only provide a false
            sense of security, which is worse than having no security.
        </p>

        <p>
            There are risks inherent with putting a picture on the Internet. This website does provide
            some controls you can utilize as to <em>who</em> will see the pictures you upload:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                You can mark pictures as "Friends only" and only approved friendships you make on this
                website will be able to see those pictures.
            </li>
            <li>
                You may mark some pictures as "Private" and you grant access to your private photos on
                a per-person basis, and can revoke access to one or all at any time.
            </li>
            <li>
                This website also chooses utterly random URLs for each and every picture, with no
                correlation between the square cropped and full size versions, so users should only
                be able to discover pictures through the normal front-end of this website, subject
                to your privacy controls.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <p>
            Additionally, your Profile Page altogether can <em>only</em> be seen by logged-in members
            of this site by default. You <em>may</em> tighten it even further and mark your entire profile
            as Private (and only approved friends can see your profile or <em>any</em> of your photos).
            Note that your square cropped profile picture is still visible even so.
        </p>

        <p>
            Or if you are feeling very bold, you may mark your profile to have a "limited logged-out
            view" if you want to share your profile link on another website such as Twitter. A logged-out
            user will see only your Display Name and square cropped profile picture, and be invited to
            sign up for {{PrettyTitle}} to contact you here.
        </p>

        <h1>Forum FAQs</h1>

        <h3 id="forum-badges">What do the various badges on the forum mean?</h3>

        <p>
            You may see some of these badges on the forums or their posts. These are their meanings:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                <span class="tag is-danger is-light">
                    <span class="icon"><i class="fa fa-fire"></i></span>
                    <span>Explicit</span>
                </span> -
                on a forum it means the entire forum is "<abbr title="Not Safe For Work">NSFW</abbr>";
                but individual topics within an otherwise non-explicit forum may also opt in to the
                Explicit tag if its content is border-line. You will not see any Explicit forums or
                posts unless you opt-in to see explicit content in your <a href="/settings">settings</a>.
            </li>
            <li>
                <span class="tag is-warning is-light">
                    <span class="icon"><i class="fa fa-gavel"></i></span>
                    <span>Privileged</span>
                </span> -
                only a forum's moderators can create new topics in a Privileged forum (such as the
                forum for Site Announcements). Moderators include the site admins, the creator of
                the forum, and any additional moderators appointed by the forum creator.
            </li>
            <li>
                <span class="tag is-success is-light">
                    <span class="icon"><i class="fa fa-thumbtack"></i></span>
                    <span>Pinned</span>
                </span> -
                these forum posts are pinned to the top of a forum, appearing above regular posts
                on the first page of the forum.
            </li>
            <li>
                <span class="tag is-warning is-light">
                    <span class="icon"><i class="fa fa-ban"></i></span>
                    <span>No Reply</span>
                </span> -
                topics with this badge can not accept any new replies. Some types of announcement
                posts may start with this badge from the beginning; other threads that are locked
                by a moderator may gain this badge if the conversation was going off the rails.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <h3 id="create-forums">Can I create my own forums?</h3>

        <p>
            This feature is coming soon! Users will be allowed to create their own forums and
            act as moderator within their own board. The forum admin pages need a bit more
            spit &amp; polish before it's ready!
        </p>

        <p>
            Some related features with managing your own forums will include:
        </p>

        <ul>
            <li>
                You'll be able to make your forum "invite-only" if you want, where only approved
                members can see and reply to threads.
            </li>
            <li>
                You'll be able to choose other users to help you moderate your forum. As the forum
                owner, you'll retain admin control of your forum unless you assign ownership away
                to another member.
            </li>
        </ul>

        <h1 id="technical-faqs">Technical FAQs</h1>

        <h3 id="why">Why did you build a custom website?</h3>

        <p>
            Other variants on this question might be: why not just run a
            <a href="https://joinmastodon.org" target="_blank">Mastodon</a> instance? Or why
            this website and not a Discord server or MeWe group or <em>insert off-the-shelf
            free software or hosted web service here</em>?
        </p>

        <p>
            It certainly would've been simpler to just use an off-the-shelf open source app
            such as Mastodon (a decentralized, Twitter-like app) or similar. These apps though
            have a scalability problem: users with their infinitely long timelines will upload
            infinite photos until your server runs out of disk space and not enough of them may
            donate to cover the costs. And the Fediverse feature (Mastodon is like e-mail and
            users from all servers can like, follow and comment on one another across the entire
            network) is a double edged sword too: all my members would need to tag even their
            "normal nudes" as NSFW or else other servers would ban ours (meaning we have to follow
            rules imposed by the wider Internet community), and conversely it is difficult to
            moderate incoming content from other servers showing up on my users' timelines.
            It's not a good fit for the vision I had in mind.
        </p>

        <p>
            And on just using a service like Discord or MeWe to host my community: that's still
            putting us in the hands of a corporation which can one day decide to ban all NSFW
            users. Many people run nudist Discords and MeWe groups, but I needed something whose
            fate is kept in my own hands.
        </p>

        <h3 id="open-source">Is this website open source?</h3>

        <p>
            Yes! The source code for this website is released as free software under the GNU
            General Public License. It is programmed in Go and the source code is available
            at <a href="https://code.nonshy.com/nonshy/website" target="_blank">code.nonshy.com/nonshy/website</a>.
            If you're a developer and would like to contribute bug fixes or new features to
            the website, see details <a href="https://code.nonshy.com/nonshy/website/src/branch/main/CONTRIBUTING.md" target="_blank">here</a>.
        </p>
    </div>
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