Oh dear.

Been testing out the Beeb’s iPlayer BETA for a few weeks now and finally decided to hook up my Facebook and Twitter accounts to enable the BBC’s new ‘recommend’ feature.

I then receive the following email:

and the offending avatar…?

“If you choose to add a Public Profile picture, it will appear on your Public Profile page, and in other places around the BBC website, for example in places where you’ve made a recommendation or a comment that is attributed to you. We moderate all Public Profile pictures before they are published for other people to see, so please keep to these rules:

• do upload a picture of yourself, not someone else
• don’t upload pictures of anyone under 16 years old or anyone other than yourself without their permission
• don’t upload pictures that show nudity, or are offensive
• don’t upload pictures that are defamatory, unlawful, or breach copyright
• don’t upload pictures that contain text, URLs, personal information, or contact details
• don’t upload pictures that promote a commercial product, service, or charity (i.e. no logos)
• do abide by the Terms of Use

If you connect your BBC iD to Facebook or Twitter, you can use your picture from that site as your BBC Public Profile picture. If you decide you want to use your Facebook or Twitter picture on the BBC, we will take a copy of your current Facebook or Twitter picture, and pass it to the BBC’s moderators for approval. Your original image from Facebook or Twitter is not affected by this. As we have to moderate your picture, we will not automatically update your BBC profile picture when you change your picture on Facebook and Twitter.

Remember, any picture you select for use at the BBC (by uploading one, or by choosing to use your Facebook or Twitter picture) will be moderated before other BBC users can see it. You will be notified by email if your Profile picture has not been approved by the moderators.”

The official “policy” can be read in full here: https://id.bbc.co.uk/users/help/profile#profile.addprofilepic

As I said… Oh dear.