hk999

wow! that's a lot of good information to read, kind of scary information! but it's good to inform people, thanks.

ponziking

What about a link to my blog?

Its information only and contains no referral links as I never refer anybody to a HYIP as I don't want to be responsible for some one losing their money.

jambutty

You can put a link to your blog in your signature and in the Advertising Miscellaneous folder.

You cannot add it to any post in any other folders.

MyGirl123

Well, to be honest, I usually just post in threads of programs I am excited about and I like sharing my excitement. If that is advertising ... I guess I won't be leaving the advertising section then!
This forum will take some getting used to ... move my posts around as you will, mods!

jambutty

As I explained in the opening post, there is a very fine line between and advert and a post.

In general if a post contains a referral URL or hints at others joining the site it is advertising and should only be posted in the appropriate advertising folder.

There are two reasons why someone wants someone else to join a particular site. To get a referral is the obvious one. But a much more subtle reason is to get new money into the site so that the person improves his/her chances of being paid. After all we all know that most sites are basically Ponzis and require new money from new members to keep going.

Just listing all of a site’s attributes sort of sits on the border and it is difficult to decide if it is an advert or not.

Talking about a site and mentioning that it pays 2% or whatever or the minimum of $100 is too much is casting an opinion about the site and in general is OK. But the smart Alecs, thinking that they can beat the system make a comment about every single aspect of the site and usually include a veiled hint to join or to see the signature.

We mods have to try to determine what the poster is intending and believe me that is not easy.

We are trying to prevent this forum into degenerating into a free-for-all tout for referrals like some other forums that I won’t mention.

We are trying to make this forum where a member can seek out information about a particular site with the minimum of searching. A site name as the title of the thread makes it easy to do a search. Things like “This is the greatest site ever” does not.

If all threads were entitled with just the site name all you would have to do is search for the site name and if there have been any posts anywhere you would get a result or not if there were no threads. You don’t waste your time reading through hundreds of posts because the site name just happens to have been mentioned somewhere.

I hope that clears things up a bit for you.

yogeshwartyagi

So using site name in the posts is fine, only what we need to be careful is dont post referal url. Thanks for clarifying.

sensei

yes you are right, I made a mistake, because I include my referral url.
I hope the admin excuse me and I will not repeat them.
thanks

jerryspa303

Hello jambutty
It seems like you have cleared up everything but what I'm thinking now is that if you have a site which you had discuss about in the thread which it is suited for but however you take that same info with a little twist to it and your referral link,would you classified this thread to be an advertisement?

jambutty

You will have noticed that this forum does not contain one single banner or advert with the exception of the link to GoldPoll, the sister monitoring site to this forum. As both sites are run by the same admin we can hardly complain about that.

Any post that contains a referral link or a user ID is classed as advertising. Except for posts in the Advertising folders.

Since this thread was started five and half years ago (wow! Doesn’t time fly?) the definition of advertising as applicable to this forum has been refined a bit.

Posts not in advertising that are nothing more than a copy and paste from the web site are also seen as advertising even though there is no referral URL or user ID. The discussion folders are for discussing an HYIP. Copying and pasting is not discussing.

“I am not admin” is not discussing. Neither are short comments like “I like this site and I’ve joined”.

So copy and paste from the web site by all means but if the post does not contain some meaningful discussion it will be classed as advertising.

I can’t give you a definition of ‘meaningful’ other than to say it should have more information than what it states on the web site.