Ok, I'm a noob to the site, deal with it (waits for the flaming). But the rules rather confused me.
5- Signatures. You may post affiliate links, and banners if you like. Don't make it too excessive and annoying. No audio allowed.
So that means in signatures sure, it's alright. Then there's this:
6- No forum promotions whatsoever, this DOES NOT include signatures. I don't care if you own it, or your friend owns it. No advertisements for other forums are allowed without written permission from Jon. Any suspicious forum promotion will result in a 1 week temp ban or a warning.
13- Absolutely ZERO advertising allowed for any type of affiliate program within ALL of our forum topic sections. I don't care if you are some giant affiliate network or even the smallest merchant. We have a paid directory for this, and if you are caught doing it outside that area, we will issue you a strict warning or a ban. Affiliates are allowed to ask "would you use this and that" but if it seems spammy, we're going to investigate it, and you will likely end up with a violation of our rules and banned. Seriously, we are getting strict about this, so don't test us unless you really want to lose your account and program credibility.
So then we aren't allowed to make posts talking about our own affiliates programs, understood. But for some reason banners in the signature is ok? This confuses me slightly only because it's a bit contradictive to me. And if you've wasted your time reading this then congratulations, you're mediocre. Flame me if you want, but here comes the stupid question (and yes it's extremely dumb)
Are we allowed to have banners and our affiliate links in our signature? Are we not allowed to post any affiliates in any topic?
I'm pretty sure the answers are 1=yes 2=not allowed at all. But somebody gimme some reassurance that I understood that correctly.
5- Signatures. You may post affiliate links, and banners if you like. Don't make it too excessive and annoying. No audio allowed.
So that means in signatures sure, it's alright. Then there's this:
6- No forum promotions whatsoever, this DOES NOT include signatures. I don't care if you own it, or your friend owns it. No advertisements for other forums are allowed without written permission from Jon. Any suspicious forum promotion will result in a 1 week temp ban or a warning.
13- Absolutely ZERO advertising allowed for any type of affiliate program within ALL of our forum topic sections. I don't care if you are some giant affiliate network or even the smallest merchant. We have a paid directory for this, and if you are caught doing it outside that area, we will issue you a strict warning or a ban. Affiliates are allowed to ask "would you use this and that" but if it seems spammy, we're going to investigate it, and you will likely end up with a violation of our rules and banned. Seriously, we are getting strict about this, so don't test us unless you really want to lose your account and program credibility.
So then we aren't allowed to make posts talking about our own affiliates programs, understood. But for some reason banners in the signature is ok? This confuses me slightly only because it's a bit contradictive to me. And if you've wasted your time reading this then congratulations, you're mediocre. Flame me if you want, but here comes the stupid question (and yes it's extremely dumb)
Are we allowed to have banners and our affiliate links in our signature? Are we not allowed to post any affiliates in any topic?
I'm pretty sure the answers are 1=yes 2=not allowed at all. But somebody gimme some reassurance that I understood that correctly.
