Affiliate Links

Discussion in 'Member and Staff Management' started by Nick, Jun 30, 2009.

  1. Nick

    Nick Regular Member

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    Do you allow members to post affiliate links within their posts or in their signatures? If not, why? Do you consider them to be spam-like?
     
    Nick, Jun 30, 2009
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  2. kev

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    I have not really had a problem with people posting affiliate links. Nor do I have any rules on the issue.
     
    kev, Jun 30, 2009
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  3. FullMetalBabe

    FullMetalBabe Zealot

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    On an anime, NO! We want to bring members, not drive them away.
     
    FullMetalBabe, Jun 30, 2009
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  4. Soliloquy

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    In general, no. However I have allowed it in the Classified section if it was something I wasn't interested in being affiliated with myself (like the cleaning products a member posted a few days ago).
     
    Soliloquy, Jun 30, 2009
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  5. tryfuhl

    tryfuhl Champion

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    Haven't had to deal with the issue.. sigs are unchecked by default. If somebody was checking their signature with every post and had an affiliate link I'd ask them to stop, if not, no sig privileges and an infraction.
     
    tryfuhl, Jul 5, 2009
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  6. Donkey

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    In signatures yes, in posts no. You're not allowed to create a thread/post just for the reason of advertising, as it's not a forum for advertising however we allow it in signatures.
     
    Donkey, Jul 22, 2009
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  7. doodles

    doodles Adept

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    We don't allow in siggys but if someone has a link to a site that can help with a problem in a thread then thats ok.
     
    doodles, Jul 22, 2009
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  8. 50calray

    50calray Grand Master

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    Be right back, need to go add my link to my sig on Kevin's site :p


    Anyhow, I haven't really made a ruling on this subject yet. We have a few people with stuff like gun blogs in their sigs which is cool but that is about it. I know I wouldn't care for people starting a thread just for advertisement reasons. There really isn't any difference in this and spam in my opinion. I also wouldn't want a gun related forum link in a sig either.
     
    50calray, Jul 22, 2009
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  9. Ryan

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    We used to not allow it, but now we have care free rules. So we have no problem with anything like that.
     
    Ryan, Jul 22, 2009
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    If somebody who posted a lot, and contributed to the forum traffic used an affilate link in their sig etc (providing it wasn't a competitior of an existing sponsor) then I'd be okay with it. But if a new username became active with affilate links in their posts and sig and profile etc. Then hell no, they'd be flagged by even just a regular member, let alone a mod, admin or me
     
    Dan, Jul 22, 2009
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  11. MJB23

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    Not in a post and it depends on if they can have it in their sig.

    If it's for another MMA related forum then no but if it's for anything else that won't affect the site's credibility then I don't have a problem for it.
     
    MJB23, Jul 22, 2009
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  12. BananaQueen

    BananaQueen Grand Master

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    not telling anyone ;)
    i allow members to have a link in their signature to their websites or forums or whatever and there is a custom profile field for website, but they arent allowed to create threads promoting anything.

    any link posted by members must not contain anything that breaks the forums rules
     
    BananaQueen, Apr 19, 2010
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