Final Warning: Affliate Coding

[UntamedRose]

Per ECF Rules found Here

Affiliate advertising is not allowed on ECF forums, either directly or indirectly. This includes, but is not limited to, affiliate links, discount codes with an affiliate code, or clickable signature banners. This also includes links to external web pages with these codes/links/banners.

There has been a Lot of this going on, recently many of you received a Rule reminder over this.
ECF rules apply in all the forums including supplier sub-forums. It's very simple NO affiliate banners.

It would be a great idea to start policing yourselves on this matter. It's not as pretty when ECF mods have to do it.

Thanks for your time and consideration.

 

[DaShiVa]

I made my sig generator generate code to link to itself.
(There is an affiliate link on my siggen page, but that's not the propose of the page, the purpose of the page is to make the sigs.)
Users of the generated sigs can use the link provided with it or remove it. or change it to whatever they like.
I believe this is all acceptable.

I'm not actually around on the forums much anymore myself, and my sig generator is used for other places than this forum, but it has been changed to follow the rules with it's default generated code I believe.

 

[SnowDragon]

This sticky is confusing.....I guess I never noticed any affiliate linking...is this about our V4L banners?

 

[Sallyem]

This sticky is confusing.....I guess I never noticed any affiliate linking...is this about our V4L banners?

I, too, am confused. When you figure it out (IF you do), please let us computer dummies
know what to do. Miss you Snow! Have a great day!

 

[DaShiVa]

Some of the sig banner images had affiliate links wrapped around them. This, it turns out, is forbidden by ECF rules. Those sigs have been edited/disabled/something.

 

[Sallyem]

Some of the sig banner images had affiliate links wrapped around them. This, it turns out, is forbidden by ECF rules. Those sigs have been edited/disabled/something.

Our V4L Banners cannot say V4L anymore?

 

[DaShiVa]

Our V4L Banners cannot say V4L anymore?

They can.
There's an obscure rule that some of us missed, relating to the actual formation of the link wrapped around the banner, which I'd added an affiliate link to to help cover the cost of maintaining the SigGen service. They have a rule against it and I got a message about it this morning, and fixed it within about an hour of that.
If you're doing anything wrong it's the mods job to let you know, so unless you have a PM or email from an ECF mod saying you're doing something wrong and to change it, don't worry about it.

 

[lujin4]

OK, what is the link to get the banner?

 

[DaShiVa]

OK, what is the link to get the banner?

Click my banner, or go to V4L Sig Generator

 

[lujin4]

Click my banner, or go to V4L Sig Generator

All I get is a server not found for your link. And, no banners for V4L are showing up.

 

[DaShiVa]

Ahh that means the DNS is acting up again. Here's a link to refreshing your DNS: Clearing Your DNS Cache, or just wait, your DNS should catch up within a day.

If I get enough cash I'll upgrade my hosting.

 

[sawlight]

I like lezzbieans, is that ok?
Maybe I'm an idiot, but how is a signature linking to a supplier, that already has a link in their forum on ECF to their webpage, breaking the rules?
Seems we would need to remove the links to all the suppliers in the suppliers sub forums to meet this criteria?
I'm confused.

 

[UntamedRose]

It's not direct linking to a supplier thats the issue.
It's putting coding into the link, that allows the "owner" of that code to receive a kick back($$$) off anything purchased from the suppliers site.

To be blunt Dash up there was using V4L "family" to make money all while having you break ECF rules, and whole lotta folks got in trouble for it before we figured out who was behind it.