My Hegdeghog (sic) webring is a general audience ring. Your site contains language that is only suitable for over 18’s. As such it is an adult website and should only be submitted to rings that comply with WebRings Adult Pages Policy. Details available on the webring home page.

Also to use that language in emails to other members is a violation of WebRings own abuse policy. Should you send any more emails to me containing such words I will forward them to WebRing support which could result in your ring id being terminated and your URL and IPS (sic) barred.
Regards
Emma

I hardly felt that my page was “adult” in nature–the only word of could be objected to is not banned—as evidenced by the title of the Showtime series “Penn & Teller - Bullshit”. Additionally, the Webrings Adult policy is meant to keep minors away from “sexually explicit material,” which cannot be found on my site.

Finally, my biggest complaint is not with the particular rules of Webrings or with your webring in general, but rather with the holier-than-thou attitude with which you replied to my first response. I simply stated that I did not see any such requirements in your TOS, and received a very rude reply in return, stating that you were the webmaster and could do anything you wanted, thank you very much.

While this is true, there are polite ways to handle things, and impolite ways. I find it more than a little amusing that, after replying in a very rude tone, you suddenly get “offended” by the language in my email. At any rate, I would like to thank you for not allowing me to join your ring. Having shown yourself as one of those marvelous, self-important petty tyrants who rules her nine-website dominion with such an iron fist and unassailable perfection, I think I am better off.

The web site you submitted to The Hedgehog WebRing Ring has been denied due to the reasons cited below by the RingMaster.

Site contains obscene language

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From: noelle
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 11:35 AM
To: hedgehog webring
Subject: Your site submission to The Hedgehog WebRing has been denied.

Actually I checked your listed rules and attempted to find some on
the webring site about a policy on this issue and didn’t see anything.
Maybe you should make that more clear in the future. As I understood
it you required actual content and something about hedgehogs.

Thanks

From: hedgehog webring
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 2:24 AM
To: noelle
Subject: re: Your site submission to The Hedgehog WebRing has been denied

Hi There
There does not need to be anything published in my TOS, As ringmaster
I can decline any site for any reason.
Regards
Emma

From: noelle
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 3:37 AM
To: emma
Subject: re: Your site submission to The Hedgehog WebRing has been denied

The TOS is supposed to be a guideline for what kind of sites you want in your ring. To fail to give clear guidelines is inconsiderate to not only the present but future members of your ring. If you take your job as ringmaster so seriously you might want to consider them because they are essentially your customers. Indiscriminately rejecting sites for arbitrary reasons is a bad business practice, Emma. This is an extremely unprofessional, not to say rude, attitude to take.

That would explain, however, why there are only nine websites in your ring which I hadn’t noticed until now. Kind of defeats the whole point of having a ring if essentially there’s no traffic being generated. In any case. You can go fuck yourself.