WF Rule Changes & Clarifications - WickedFire - Affiliate Marketing Forum

Jon · 04-17-2007, 01:03 AM

Some changes you should know about, and clarifications of current rules too, so you don't have to go around asking Guides, Mods and Admins.

New Rules:
- No ebook promotions allowed. Period. Not in your sig, not as a new thread, not as a reply, not via PM, NOTHING. I don't care if you didn't write it, or if it's 25 cents, if it's not being listed as FREE, then it has no place on this forum. That's all there is to it.
Clarifications of this rule: If you are caught breaking this rule, you will be banned immediately, no second chances. It should be quite obvious by now that we are very against the sale of ebooks here. I don't care what someone else told you or what you read at a different forum, if you promote it here, you risk losing your account. If you are caught doing it on a different username, we will IP ban you. If you think that by logging on here with a proxy will protect you, you're wrong. We are using a new custom plugin that overrides proxies and shows us your genuine IP, and thus results in a lifelong ban.

- Do not request that people email you or PM you information on a service or product as a result of the original thread's topic. This will result in a temporary ban of 10-30 days.
Clarifications of this rule: If you are too fucking lazy to use the search feature and just want information quickly, by posting "email me info plz" or "PM me info privately" -- tough fucking luck buddy. This is a public forum and information here should be made public for the general use and quality of the community. There are certain private areas here for people who contribute and are being rewarded for their activity and general loyalty to helping our community out. Just because you are either too lazy or don't feel like doing the work to ask normal questions or seek out the answers and post them here yourself doesn't mean someone will be giving it to you just because you asked nicely. Instead, we'll politely ban your ass for up to 1 month.

- Scam here, and you will be banned for life. Chances are also pretty good that your full information will be posted publicly here to ensure that you do not attempt to poison us with your crap again.
Clarification: If you are advertising a product or a service, and there is a scam alert on what you've promised to provide, meaning, you said you'd design a site, accepted payment, and gave lots of excuses or didn't meet the current deadline that you agreed on with the client here, then you will be investigated immediately, and even if you are a staff member, a guide, or an advertiser, and we find that your story sounds shady or full of holes, you can bet your ass you will be banned here, and your information will be made public, along with our campaign to make sure that you, as a scammer never come here again, and also make it tough as hell for you to do it on other forums (we'll alert other forum owners by adding you to our blacklist).

Current Rule Clarifications:

- Advertising on the fourms is not allowed unless you have written approval by ME (Jon - in case you are too dumb to know who is posting this). There is however a loophole to the rule. If someone is asking for a good hosting plan and wants information, and you just so happen to own or resell what they may be looking for you ARE allowed to post information, but you must also include plans and links to other companies that may assist the user. You cannot blatantly advertise it by saying "we are having a huge sale!!!" type of shit. Also, if the user buys into whatever you've just advertised and it turns out to be a scam or nothing they expected, you risk being banned here for lack of quality, so it may be in your best interest to not advertise anything unless you are completely confident that your service/product will meet the standards of this forum (You may NOT "suggest" an ebook as a product, so don't even think about it).

- Ad networks, Aff managers, or anyone associated with affiliate programs or networks are NOT exempt from the above rule, and are NOT allowed to advertise their network, offers, campaigns, or payouts in any way, shape or form on the forum, through private messages, or any other way unless they have written approval from Jon. Unless they advertise here, that's one of the few perks they can have, but they are still not allowed to blatantly advertise anywhere on or through the WickedFire network.

- Guides are not mods. Guides are not admins. Guides hold no forum powers except that they are here to assist forum members by providing answers, relevant information, resources, and their own custom content specifically for the WickedFire community. If a Guide PM's you and threatens you, or treats you in any matter that mimics a Moderator or Admin, report it immediately, and include the message/conversation. Our Guides are screened to an extent that they have a good clean record and are active on WickedFire and know a lot in the topic section they are a Guide for. They cannot ban you, but they can act as our extra set of eyes and ears on the forum, and do have the power to report someone they suspect to be breaking the more stricter rules, and also have the power to recommend a user to be banned if an issue occurs. You are to treat them with the same respect of your fellow forum user, and remember, that they aren't doing their job for cash benefits, but to better the community as a whole. They act as advisors and mentors.

We may experience some brief downtime this week while we switch over to our new servers, so if the site is down for you, don't go crazy. Brandon will post notifications on the forum about maintainance and downtimes in US time zones. We'll also be shutting down the forums temporarily for about an hour or so before we switch so we can back everything up for one final time and make the switch. The whole thing should not take more than 3 hours, and will try to be done after 1am EST, during our off hours.

Thanks for your patience and understanding. If you have any suggestions for new rules or need clarifications for rules, use the feedback section. DO NOT message me.

illusion · 04-17-2007, 01:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jon

...Chances are also pretty good that your full information will be posted publicly here to ensure that you do not attempt to poison us with your crap again...

Damn straight

kaveman · 04-17-2007, 11:40 AM

"Do not request that people email you or PM you information on a service or product as a result of the original thread's topic"

Wow we're on lockdown now, lame rule, i think there are instences to ask that and ot seems like something that works itself out. If some newb wants free info they WILL get flamed. But if its a well respected member just wanting to talk to somone else about it in a private matter i dont see w=hats wrong with that

edit: although i guess tyou could just pm the person instead of asking them to pm you?, still chill out fuhrer

jelf · 04-17-2007, 02:13 PM

Just what I expected nice and clear!

Heartcore · 04-17-2007, 05:26 PM

What about "good e-books " like seobook? can they still be recommended (not that i will)

Can design/programming services be advertised?

Jon · 04-19-2007, 02:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Heartcore

What about "good e-books " like seobook? can they still be recommended (not that i will)

Can design/programming services be advertised?

Design, programming, and copywriting (articles/content) services can be advertised for free in the Buy, Sell Trade area.

But only by freelancers, nothing corporate or small/medium/large business types.. and NO affiliate programs, not even for hosting & domain resellers. Tough fucking luck. There are tons of forums that don't care about it, so go there and spam them with it there. You can however put it in your sig.

Everyone already knows about seobook, so there's no need to advertise it.

Any ebook along the lines of making money, internet marketing, advertising, ppc marketing, email marketing etc are NOT allowed. I don't care how great you think it is, or how good others have said it is, no fucking way.

Jon · 04-19-2007, 02:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kaveman

"Do not request that people email you or PM you information on a service or product as a result of the original thread's topic"

Wow we're on lockdown now, lame rule, i think there are instences to ask that and ot seems like something that works itself out. If some newb wants free info they WILL get flamed. But if its a well respected member just wanting to talk to somone else about it in a private matter i dont see w=hats wrong with that

edit: although i guess tyou could just pm the person instead of asking them to pm you?, still chill out fuhrer

I was referring to people making posts going "pm me for details on this software" or "pm me with a link to the site". If you just want to talk to someone, click the fucking PM link yourself, you can't be THAT fucking lazy man!

smaxor · 04-19-2007, 02:53 AM

Rule 12: If you're going to spam the forum don't be a retard... at least make a good show of it

Nothing worse then seeing incompetent spamming.

kaveman · 04-19-2007, 05:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jon

you can't be THAT fucking lazy man!

I might be lazy but at least I'm not a jew

Jon · 04-19-2007, 05:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kaveman

I might be lazy but at least I'm not a jew

Because you are too stupid to be a Jew. Only the elite get to be Jews. Like me. Booyah!

kaveman · 04-19-2007, 05:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jon

Because you are too stupid to be a Jew. Only the elite get to be Jews. Like me. Booyah!

yup, all the elite people, come into this large shower room, we're just gunna seal the place up and put the "water" on.

Jon · 04-19-2007, 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kaveman

yup, all the elite people, come into this large shower room, we're just gunna seal the place up and put the "water" on.

Low blow.. low blow..

kaveman · 04-19-2007, 05:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jon

Low blow.. low blow..

don't get butt hurt. I here you dish out a lota heat not to be able to take a holocaust joke

RexyWendy · 04-19-2007, 05:46 PM

Sorry I broke my probation. I'm up to speed now.

Jon · 04-21-2007, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kaveman

don't get butt hurt. I here you dish out a lota heat not to be able to take a holocaust joke

It's a sore subject for me. Grandparents are survivors. Whole family killed in front of them. It's like poking fun at a kid who's mom was involved in Columbine, but instead saw her entire family killed in front of her. Or me cracking a suicide joke at you when a family member close to you was one that offed themself. Some things you just don't joke about with certain people. Make fun of Jews all ya like, I could care less.. but the Holocaust.. psh.. that's a whole 'nother ballgame my friend.

seocracy · 04-21-2007, 01:24 PM

This reminds me of a story.

I used to work at a liquor store...and on a HOT summer day I was working with a young woman who was quite cold in the store. I kept on going back into the fridge to cool down, which was a rather nice bonus of working in the liquor store. Upon coming out of the fridge, the young woman said "How can you go in the fridge!? Im FREEZING!"

To which, I replied, "Yeah! Im lucky we have a fridge I can go into! It's too bad that we're not a bakery or something and you couldn't warm yourself up in the oven."

Upon hearing this, the young woman stared at me for several moments before saying, "Im Jewish. And I take extreme offence to you telling me to get inside an oven. Do you know how many of my family were killed in the holocaust?"

She went on to complain to management and get me fired.

JamesH · 04-21-2007, 01:37 PM

Damn man that sucks. And better yet, some people in the world that think the Holocaust never existed. Fucking morons...

$5 Submissions · 04-26-2007, 08:16 PM

Hey Jon,

I noticed that some people have banners (differing sizes) in their sigs. What is the final word on this?

Thanks,
Gene

Jon · 04-26-2007, 11:03 PM

04-17-2007, 01:03 AM	#1 (permalink)
Jon Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: New York City Posts: 7,334 iTrader: (0)	WF Rule Changes & Clarifications Some changes you should know about, and clarifications of current rules too, so you don't have to go around asking Guides, Mods and Admins. New Rules: - No ebook promotions allowed. Period. Not in your sig, not as a new thread, not as a reply, not via PM, NOTHING. I don't care if you didn't write it, or if it's 25 cents, if it's not being listed as FREE, then it has no place on this forum. That's all there is to it. Clarifications of this rule: If you are caught breaking this rule, you will be banned immediately, no second chances. It should be quite obvious by now that we are very against the sale of ebooks here. I don't care what someone else told you or what you read at a different forum, if you promote it here, you risk losing your account. If you are caught doing it on a different username, we will IP ban you. If you think that by logging on here with a proxy will protect you, you're wrong. We are using a new custom plugin that overrides proxies and shows us your genuine IP, and thus results in a lifelong ban. - Do not request that people email you or PM you information on a service or product as a result of the original thread's topic. This will result in a temporary ban of 10-30 days. Clarifications of this rule: If you are too fucking lazy to use the search feature and just want information quickly, by posting "email me info plz" or "PM me info privately" -- tough fucking luck buddy. This is a public forum and information here should be made public for the general use and quality of the community. There are certain private areas here for people who contribute and are being rewarded for their activity and general loyalty to helping our community out. Just because you are either too lazy or don't feel like doing the work to ask normal questions or seek out the answers and post them here yourself doesn't mean someone will be giving it to you just because you asked nicely. Instead, we'll politely ban your ass for up to 1 month. - Scam here, and you will be banned for life. Chances are also pretty good that your full information will be posted publicly here to ensure that you do not attempt to poison us with your crap again. Clarification: If you are advertising a product or a service, and there is a scam alert on what you've promised to provide, meaning, you said you'd design a site, accepted payment, and gave lots of excuses or didn't meet the current deadline that you agreed on with the client here, then you will be investigated immediately, and even if you are a staff member, a guide, or an advertiser, and we find that your story sounds shady or full of holes, you can bet your ass you will be banned here, and your information will be made public, along with our campaign to make sure that you, as a scammer never come here again, and also make it tough as hell for you to do it on other forums (we'll alert other forum owners by adding you to our blacklist). Current Rule Clarifications: - Advertising on the fourms is not allowed unless you have written approval by ME (Jon - in case you are too dumb to know who is posting this). There is however a loophole to the rule. If someone is asking for a good hosting plan and wants information, and you just so happen to own or resell what they may be looking for you ARE allowed to post information, but you must also include plans and links to other companies that may assist the user. You cannot blatantly advertise it by saying "we are having a huge sale!!!" type of shit. Also, if the user buys into whatever you've just advertised and it turns out to be a scam or nothing they expected, you risk being banned here for lack of quality, so it may be in your best interest to not advertise anything unless you are completely confident that your service/product will meet the standards of this forum (You may NOT "suggest" an ebook as a product, so don't even think about it). - Ad networks, Aff managers, or anyone associated with affiliate programs or networks are NOT exempt from the above rule, and are NOT allowed to advertise their network, offers, campaigns, or payouts in any way, shape or form on the forum, through private messages, or any other way unless they have written approval from Jon. Unless they advertise here, that's one of the few perks they can have, but they are still not allowed to blatantly advertise anywhere on or through the WickedFire network. - Guides are not mods. Guides are not admins. Guides hold no forum powers except that they are here to assist forum members by providing answers, relevant information, resources, and their own custom content specifically for the WickedFire community. If a Guide PM's you and threatens you, or treats you in any matter that mimics a Moderator or Admin, report it immediately, and include the message/conversation. Our Guides are screened to an extent that they have a good clean record and are active on WickedFire and know a lot in the topic section they are a Guide for. They cannot ban you, but they can act as our extra set of eyes and ears on the forum, and do have the power to report someone they suspect to be breaking the more stricter rules, and also have the power to recommend a user to be banned if an issue occurs. You are to treat them with the same respect of your fellow forum user, and remember, that they aren't doing their job for cash benefits, but to better the community as a whole. They act as advisors and mentors. We may experience some brief downtime this week while we switch over to our new servers, so if the site is down for you, don't go crazy. Brandon will post notifications on the forum about maintainance and downtimes in US time zones. We'll also be shutting down the forums temporarily for about an hour or so before we switch so we can back everything up for one final time and make the switch. The whole thing should not take more than 3 hours, and will try to be done after 1am EST, during our off hours. Thanks for your patience and understanding. If you have any suggestions for new rules or need clarifications for rules, use the feedback section. DO NOT message me. __________________ There's someone in my head... but its not me.

04-21-2007, 01:24 PM	#16 (permalink)
seocracy Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 765 iTrader: (4)	This reminds me of a story. I used to work at a liquor store...and on a HOT summer day I was working with a young woman who was quite cold in the store. I kept on going back into the fridge to cool down, which was a rather nice bonus of working in the liquor store. Upon coming out of the fridge, the young woman said "How can you go in the fridge!? Im FREEZING!" To which, I replied, "Yeah! Im lucky we have a fridge I can go into! It's too bad that we're not a bakery or something and you couldn't warm yourself up in the oven." Upon hearing this, the young woman stared at me for several moments before saying, "Im Jewish. And I take extreme offence to you telling me to get inside an oven. Do you know how many of my family were killed in the holocaust?" She went on to complain to management and get me fired. __________________ Datapresser.com - Content Generator and SEO-focused Site Tracker Seocracy.com

04-21-2007, 01:37 PM	#17 (permalink)
JamesH Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1,009 iTrader: (7)	Damn man that sucks. And better yet, some people in the world that think the Holocaust never existed. Fucking morons... __________________ JamesHume.net

04-26-2007, 08:16 PM	#18 (permalink)
$5 Submissions Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1,611 iTrader: (2)	Hey Jon, I noticed that some people have banners (differing sizes) in their sigs. What is the final word on this? Thanks, Gene __________________ Need BULK Content? 100% Original 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed: Low Rates - High Quality

04-17-2007, 11:40 AM	#3 (permalink)
kaveman Giant Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: santa barbara, CA Posts: 3,303 iTrader: (0)	"Do not request that people email you or PM you information on a service or product as a result of the original thread's topic" Wow we're on lockdown now, lame rule, i think there are instences to ask that and ot seems like something that works itself out. If some newb wants free info they WILL get flamed. But if its a well respected member just wanting to talk to somone else about it in a private matter i dont see w=hats wrong with that edit: although i guess tyou could just pm the person instead of asking them to pm you?, still chill out fuhrer

04-17-2007, 02:13 PM	#4 (permalink)
jelf Teh ***** Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 643 iTrader: (4)	Just what I expected nice and clear!

04-17-2007, 05:26 PM	#5 (permalink)
Heartcore Banned Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Belgium Posts: 83 iTrader: (0)	What about "good e-books " like seobook? can they still be recommended (not that i will) Can design/programming services be advertised?

04-19-2007, 02:53 AM	#8 (permalink)
smaxor Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Diego Posts: 1,209 iTrader: (1)	Rule 12: If you're going to spam the forum don't be a retard... at least make a good show of it Nothing worse then seeing incompetent spamming.

04-19-2007, 05:46 PM	#14 (permalink)
RexyWendy #1 AM in Arkansas Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Ozark Mountains Posts: 89 iTrader: (0)	Sorry I broke my probation. I'm up to speed now.

04-26-2007, 11:03 PM	#19 (permalink)
Jon Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: New York City Posts: 7,334 iTrader: (0)