Policy Revisions, Staff Changes, and More

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  1. Jayson

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    As the European Union rolls out the General Data Protection Regulation, MCTrades has established a new privacy policy along with revisions to our cookie usage. We've also worked to enhance and secure the trading experience through creating additional systems, improving reliability, and more.

    Your Privacy
    While the internet can provide a tremendous amount of opportunities, some can obstruct your way of life, however not always in a good way. MCTrades is dedicated to providing a safe trading environment for everyone. In order to help you take charge of your information, we've set up a new Privacy Policy and now require the acceptance of it in order to utilize the MCTrades platform.

    MCTrades collects data such as your username/name, email, gender, and date of birth during the registration process. Your username is used as a general identification utility around our forum and can be used to log-in to your account along with your email. Depending on your preferences, MCTrades may also send emails to you. Make note MCTrades may send emails despite your preferences if we must notify you of important information regarding your account. In order to change what emails you receive, please review your Contact Details and Preferences. Your gender can be set as unspecified and is primarily used to identify you throughout the community. Your birth date is also used to confirm that you're above the age of 13 as required by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. MCTrades may also collect information such as your Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat handle. This is considered information you provide and may be publicly displayed on your profile in certain cases.

    Cookies are used throughout the internet, including on MCTrades. We primarily use them for security purposes, such as authentication and bot prevention, however they may also be used to save your preferences, such as your preferred language and style. MCTrades does not have access to the cookies set by other websites, however service providers we use may set them and therefore cookies have the potential to travel across websites, such as Google Analytics. For more information about how we use cookies, please review our Cookie Usage policy.

    Differing from previous policies, members may now request for their account to be deleted along with request for the personal information in which we hold regarding them. We typically complete such within 7 days, excluding holidays recognized within what may be considered "western" countries. If we suspect that a deletion request is due to commit mischievous behavior, we may delay deletions for up to 30 days in order to conduct a thorough investigation. If you wish to delete your account, please create a ticket. We may require you to provide a code sent to your email in order to confirm this action.

    For more information in regards to how we handle your information and how we utilize cookies, please review our Privacy Policy and Cookie Usage policy.

    Third Party Relations
    We've worked to improve privacy as we send information to third parties and allow you to share more of your social media accounts.
    • Associating your Google account to MCTrades now provides less permission to MCTrades through a less permissive scope. Make note that this will not impact how MCTrades uses your information.
    • Updated our reCAPTCHA integration code, a system designed to prevent robots from abusing platforms such as ours.
    • Updated our Google analytics code and anonymized internet protocol addresses sent to it.
    • Added more social media platforms to the Contact Details page.
    • Rather than using a million browser extensions such as the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, MCTrades members may now completely remove Google Analytics, Twitter widgets, Discord widgets, and Facebook widgets through the Preferences page.
    Patches and Optimization
    Making the world go faster to help you achieve your goals and locking down the perimeter to keep you safe.
    • After a security flaw was located by RCE Security, the SWFUpload system has been removed in favor of the HTML 5 uploader. It should be noted that most popular browsers do not have Adobe Flash installed.
    • In order to reduce the load applied with loading a page, the history function has been removed. This feature was only provided to members with the obsidian role group and therefore should not pose a significant difference in loading speeds for the general public.
    • Automated thread locking now applies to more forums to combat necroposting, the act of posting to an old, abandoned thread in which no longer serves a purpose, despised of due to how it bumps such useless threads back up to the top of the forum.
    • An issue causing the inability to utilize all available characters in chat identified by our community along with an item placement error, also identified by our community, have been repaired.
    • Fixed an issue where registrations using an email with a slow response would return a server error.
    • Fixed an issue where the "My Threads" button would not appear.
    • Repaired an issue where specific groups would improperly override permissions of what should of been higher priority ones.
    Moderation
    Helping you trade without being interrupted.
    • Additional link shorteners have been blocked from being posted. This is due to potential issues of where such links may lead to. We do not block all link shorteners though, such as those operated by the same business all the links go to or the shortened link correlates with where it's going to.
    • Up-thread buttons now provide the amount of time you must wait to "up" the thread again.
    • For those who enjoy writing longer chat messages, write on up to 200 characters.
    User Interface
    Making things look nicer and functional.
    • Added a grey sidebar and changed some existing sidebars to grey.
    • Multiple phrases have been changed to become shorter without degrading the text's integrity.
    • Multiple broken icons from our update to Font Awesome 5 have been repaired.
    • Smilies now become larger when hovered upon within their selector in most locations.
    • Notices have been rewritten and their display criteria have been updated to only display to those whom they apply to.
    • A new "Ad Pending Payment" notice has been added to combat forgetfulness.
    • Community moderated user groups are now ordered by how many members are within them.
    • Most of our forms have been redone such as game license submission, disputes, and suggestions/bug reports for a nicer look, better formatting, and to better suit the standards in which each form must comply to.
    • Ban messages displayed in signatures now also provide a ban expiry time, displaying "Never" if not applicable.
    • We've added a new [background] BbCode in which allows you to create a colored, rounded background for content. It currently takes HEX and RGB color codes as an option.
    • What once was our [fa], [fas], [fab], and [far] BbCodes have all been compressed into [fa]. There is also a [faa] variant in which better supports icon stacking. To select Font Awesome solid, simply use the BbCode [fa=s]. Add a spin by adding a comma and "spin" to it like [fa=s,spin], and more. We currently support spin, border, fixed-width, pulse, and inverse with both the [fa] and [faa] BbCodes, however also have stack-1x, stack-2x, and stack available to [faa]. The [faa] BbCode is not permitted within the chat and is simply a version of [fa] with more options available. An example is provided in the spoiler at the end of this section.
    • As a wrapper to stack Font Awesome icons with [faa], the [fam] BbCode was created. An example is provided in the spoiler at the end of this section.
    • Create tables with our [table], [tr], and [td] BbCodes. [table] accepting a table width in percentage or pixels as an option, [tr] accepting a HEX or RGB color code, and [td] also accepting a HEX or RGB color code. An example is provided in the spoiler at the end of this section.
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    MCTrades BbCodes
    Take advantage of MCTrades' BbCodes both new and old to enhance your trading experience.

    Font Awesome
    Font Awesome provides over a thousand stylish icons which you can use to spruce up your thread. Plus, make your icon unique with other BbCodes such as color, or even make it spin or stack it with other icons.
    Background
    Create simple, rounded boxes that fit all of your content. Customize the color to make it stand out and get those trades going.
    Tables
    Organize it all with our set of table BbCodes. Customize the color of every box you create along with the table's size. With our variety of other BbCodes, improve it by centering, changing the text color, and more.
    Promotions
    Get more out of the MCTrades platform by simply being an active member, or even donate and help support us further.
    • We're removing our "top chatter" promotion, however, message counts will not be reset and the prize will still be given out for May 2018.
    • The trophy system has been reset and trophies have been both added and removed.

    Team Members
    Keeping things clean.
    • Tim has become our official dispute resolver and will be handling the dispute resolution process.
    • Ren has decided to resign due to time constraints applied from other activities.
     
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    Ryan Master Trader
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