WHAT ARE SHOUTOUTS?
Shoutouts are friendly messages that anyone using IMVU Credits can send to other members of the community.? They will appear on a ticker-tape scroll bar at the bottom of the 3D window and at the top of your IMVU homepage.? Shoutout messages may include links to your homepage or to other sites of interest in the IMVU program.? You can submit shoutouts by clicking on the 'shoutout' category listing located on the catalog page.? A nominal fee (of IMVU Credits only) is charged for each shoutout submitted.

HOW ARE THEY SCREENED? Any shoutout you submit is first reviewed by members of the IMVU Staff who screen for violations of IMVU's Terms of Service as well as for inappropriate content.

This includes but is not limited to the following: -- inappropriate or profane language -- inappropriate sexual innuendo or solicitation -- proselytizing -- complaints, criticism, contentious opinion, negative labeling, gossip, insinuation, accusatory statements, hearsay, etc -- statements that would provoke an argumentative response -- announcements for contests or for reward opportunities that appear to be scams (ie, promising rewards when you have none to give; promising people credits when you do not have a registered name and can clearly not give IMVU Credits out, etc) or that otherwise violate IMVU's TOS. -- anything that contains links that are broken -- anything that credits contains links to non-IMVU sites. Please note, this rule does not apply to pro-developers. (You may include links to non-IMVU sites on your own homepage, but not in shoutouts. All links on your own homepage must still be compliant with IMVU's TOS)

This criteria was designed to emphasize what we believe to be the fundamental purpose of shoutouts, namely that they be available for anyone in the IMVU Credits community to send friendly messages to one another and to allow developers to advertise their items or get contests going. They are not meant to be used in order to make contentious or inflammatory statements, to criticize others, to voice opinions or complaints, or to provoke credits argumentative responses. Click here for more information on this.

WHY DO SOME SHOUTOUTS THAT SEEM OKAY GET REJECTED? Shoutouts are a really fun way to make public announcements or to message people, and I would venture to say that greater than 95% of the shoutouts submitted to us get published. Most of the rejected submissions are turned away because they simply don't comply with the guidelines mentioned above, but at times, some seemingly fine shoutouts get rejected as well, and this has evoked some questions from our users about the review process.