suburbanbushbabe
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No warning, no email, no reason. I pay a yearly fee for this service. This is not service. That is all.
No warning, no email, no reason. I pay a yearly fee for this service. This is not service. That is all.
Clarification on the announcement:
Advertisements are not allowed anywhere in the forum (posts or signatures) unless authorized or unless you have a seller account. Examples:
Come join my AVON shop, I have found the Iwillbecomeamillionairebyjustbrowsingtheweb website, come join my personal blog, come join my new facebook like website.
The same applies to your signature. No ads whatsoever. If you need to share information with other members that exists in other websites you can do so by either copying and pasting the content here (preferred method) or providing a link to that site. You MUST know that the owner of the content allows you to post content here otherwise you might be infringing on copyright.
You also are not allowed to provide links to websites/blogs that are operated by others so as the other party can gain from our traffic. I understand that this is a really grey area and it is difficult to 'police' this. We do not want to stop the links to other sites. This will remove a lot of value from our members and the information source that our community has.
I leave this to your discretion as to what can be linked and what not. Two examples I can bring:
I post a link to CNN about a recent event that affects us all - this one is OK.
I post a link to a personal blog (mine or a friends) which has ads thereby driving traffic to that site from ours - this one is not allowed.
Again, links in the forum are a very grey area and I would appreciate it if you do not abuse it. So far there have been only a couple of instances that I had to ban people for advertising in posts. Recently an ex-member posted the same message in all forums - come join my social network.
Out of the members that have been banned, only one was reinstated since the script did not accurately assess her signature. The rest of them will join us in 7-10 days.
As we continue assessing signatures, if you have links to personal sites, pyramid schemes etc. please remove them. If your signature is big it will be deleted.
I hope this helps a bit more.
When in doubt: ASK!
I do not have my PMs enabled so if you want to ask something either do so in the Suggestions board or open a ticket in the support area.
We allowed Fotki (and Google's Picasa as well as one more picture based site) since we had fotki since the beginning of the forum. Now we are not going to go and check everyone's fotki link in their signature but bare in mind that whoever clicks on a fotki link we can record it. The more clicks one gets the more traffic they get. If that traffic is targeted to a site that does advertise then the person will be banned.
Simple enough?
hey lady!
Niko did an announcement about blogs (that are paid or have adverts) etc in siggys & big pics in siggys.
they've repeatedly told us no big pics in siggys. i don't think you had a big pic but if i remember, you had links to your fotki & blog.
http://www.longhaircareforum.com/announcement.php?f=6
i'll look for the other thread too.
bottom line, if you have a link to a blog make sure that the blog has not adverts.
Nikos said that we can have a link to our personal blog if it does not contain advertising thereby driving revenue away from LHCF with each click. i've seen your blog, i don't recall it having adverts but i have not visited in months.
here are his quotes. some of the bold red, are mine to draw attention.
You are allowed the following hyperlinks to your posts/signatures:
1. Links within the forum - i.e. check this topic
2. Links to your FOTKI album - ONLY FOTKI not a blog
3. Links to your Long Hair Care Forum powered blog
4. Tinkerfactory counters
5. Small pictures that do not hinder the navigation of members on dialup
No links to personal sites. No links to personal blogs. No links to YouTube blogs - No links in general other than the ones mentioned above.
My signature was deleted too, i paid to be on here and i would at least appreciate an email to tell me that they deleted my siggy! Or atleast an email asking me to re-size it!
But they did give a warning. It was in the announcement...
Ummm yea sure they did NOW kandake but not when my stuff went down.
Ummm yea sure they did NOW kandake but not when my stuff went down.
http://www.longhaircareforum.com/announcement.php?f=41
Was your signature taken down prior to December 29, 2009? Many of the signatures that broke the rules outlined in this announcement actually were around until at the end of at least the first full week of January, which leads me to believe they gave people time to change their signatures.
Many people who had signatures that violated guidelines actually got banned, so I would count my blessings, personally.
Well, if your siggy was taken down before the announcement went up, I understand your concern.
I just don't want people to have any displaced feelings. No sense getting upset with the owner/administrator simply because you failed to read the announcement.
Well, if your siggy was taken down before the announcement went up, I understand your concern.
I just don't want people to have any displaced feelings. No sense getting upset with the owner/administrator simply because you failed to read the announcement.
hey lady!
Niko did an announcement about blogs (that are paid or have adverts) etc in siggys & big pics in siggys.
they've repeatedly told us no big pics in siggys. i don't think you had a big pic but if i remember, you had links to your fotki & blog.
http://www.longhaircareforum.com/announcement.php?f=6
i'll look for the other thread too.
bottom line, if you have a link to a blog make sure that the blog has not adverts.
Nikos said that we can have a link to our personal blog if it does not contain advertising thereby driving revenue away from LHCF with each click. i've seen your blog, i don't recall it having adverts but i have not visited in months.
here are his quotes. some of the bold red, are mine to draw attention.
My signature was deleted too, i paid to be on here and i would at least appreciate an email to tell me that they deleted my siggy! Or atleast an email asking me to re-size it!
I didn't see the announcement. Sorry its that HARD for you to believe! I'm not on here day in and day out like some folks so of course they will notice it.
I didn't see the announcement. Sorry its that HARD for you to believe! I'm not on here day in and day out like some folks so of course they will notice it.
How many members on this forum? 30,000+ right? That announcement hasn't even been viewed 2000 times. It's really not hard to believe that some people haven't seen it so I don't know why some people are acting like it is.
Is my siggy pic to big yall??? Not trying to be funny, someone please let me know.
To me, not really. It's 320x240, which is a quarter width by ABOUT a third in height on my resolution.
Youtube vids have ads...so we can't link to someone's youtube if we like it? Or would that fall under his CNN's example?