Question about the ToS

[lonelyga]

Does the quote

Personal accounts are to be used by the primary owner only. Personal account holders are not permitted to resell, store or give away web-hosting services of their website to other parties. Web hosting services are defined as allowing a separate, third party to host content on the owner's web site.

mean that it wouldn't be possible for me to make something similar to Codecademy with x10? I was thinking of doing that but I'm not sure if I'd be allowed to let people make their own pieces of code to share with the community of my site, if I were to do it. I'm pretty sure that quote means that you can't but I'm not sure.

 

[essellar]

Your users can post code as text, of course, in something like a forum or a blog post author (or similar) as long as it's under your imprimature (that is, you can't give them their own blog, but you can give them a by-line on yours). You would be responsible for the content, though, and anything that even smells like an exploit in a code posting may result in a suspension. Moderation would be a really good idea.

 

[lonelyga]

Your users can post code as text, of course, in something like a forum or a blog post author (or similar) as long as it's under your imprimature (that is, you can't give them their own blog, but you can give them a by-line on yours). You would be responsible for the content, though, and anything that even smells like an exploit in a code posting may result in a suspension. Moderation would be a really good idea.

Ah. Thank you for answering. I'll keep that in mind. I figured as such; letting users host small pieces of code on a site via an on-site text pretty much seems like giving them the ability to host files on your site.

 

[lonelyga]

Sorry for the (somewhat) necrobump, but would I be allowed to let users have semi-code on my site? What I mean is much more of a game-oriented programming language, interpreted with something I built. It wouldn't be real JS or anything that I think would qualify as 'giving hosting services to other people' - just something for adding a bit of extra behavior to games. (I'm making a game creator; I'd like to give my users some extra functionality to add to their projects. Something a bit like Scratch, except typed.)