affiliates4u.com forum rules discussion

[Matthew Wood]

I'd like to welcome the large number of new members to affiliates4u.com over the past few weeks, and would like to take this opportunity to remind all members of the forum rules.

We've seen a number of members over the last few months using the forum in what I believe to be an improper manner, often with a confrontational or negative stance against merchants or networks.

As a community we have a great opportunity to help shape the affiliate marketing channel, however continuous negativity will do nothing to help your industry develop and grow.

I'll leave you to ponder over the above and to read the below rules. They should be common sense however I would urge you to familiarise yourself with them to ensure you do not get penalised.

Affiliates4u forum rules

Affiliates4u.com is not the appropriate medium for personal or private vendettas. This forum should not be used to attempt to resolve personal problems with networks, merchants, agencies or fellow affiliates. Please email them directly to attempt to resolve in the first instance.

Posts requesting support from networks should be sent to the networks own ticketing system and not the forum. Posts requesting support may be deleted without notice.

Please try to keep postings on-topic, do not steer the thread in another direction without good reason. If required please start a new topic within a relevant forum.

Please use the most descriptive title possible when creating a new thread, ensuring you search the forums first to ensure posts are not duplicated. Duplicate posts may be deleted or merged.

Be respectful to your fellow members, this is a friendly and professional environment; we wish to keep it that way so please treat others as you would like to be treated.

Moderators may, if felt appropriate move your post if it becomes more relevant / pertinent to another part of the forum.

Please remember that moderators are volunteer helpers that are here to ensure the forum runs smoothly. Please respect this if they have to contact you/edit/remove or add additional comments to your posts. Should you have any issues with a moderator you must contact the forum administrator.

Discussions about moderator or administrator actions are welcome in email or local private messages, but should not be placed in the public forums.

Please keep your language clean and decent. This include personal inflammatory language as well as obscenities.

You agree not to hold affiliates4u.com or its members liable for anything stated within the forums and that messages posted at this site are the sole opinion and responsibility of the poster.

Postings that are designed with the intention to drive traffic to a member's site, or affiliated sites will be removed or edited, as the moderator(s) feels appropriate.

Signatures are a great way of promoting your online business and we encourage their use on the board and within profiles. However please keep signatures to a maximum of two lines, do not include large images or banners, do not include affiliate links in your signatures, or links to 'webmaster orientated' affiliate sites without prior permission from the administrator.

Breaking the rules

Moderators will give infractions to members who break the rules, an individual occurrence or continuous breaches of the rules will affect your posting rights and severe repeat offenders may be banned from the site.