...– without any affiliate links in it and not self promotional- was quickly moved from here and “labeled” blatant –in plain words shameful- promotion.
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 12:22 am Post subject:
gerry wrote:
...my post was moved (without any notice of the reasons) in the "Blatantly promote your non-MLM program here" category.
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 8:51 am Post subject:
Sorry, Gerry, if you are offended.
The policy I've been implementing is that if a URL is prominently displayed in a new topic, there may be a promotion and I explained what would happen. I don't have time to check every such link. The instruction page said to add to an existing topic as a "reply" with a URL and sufficient explanation and it will stand.
A new topic needs much more introduction to substantiate a URL as relevant. Maybe I over-reacted ... but I am consistent. Re-list your topic with a good explanation, and perhaps put the URL in the signature file for more credibility.
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 12:55 pm Post subject:
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I had a recent bad experience with namecheap - they weren't sending out notice that domains were due to expire or had expired. As a result one of my domains expired without me noticing. When I went to their site the domain had already disappeard from my control panel so there was no option to renew. Registering again didn't work as it says the domain is already registered. When trying to contact them they have no phone numbers on their website (the renewal was urgent as this domain was being used for our nameservers). I had to go to enom.com and look up namecheaps telephone number there (namecheap are an enom reseller) but that just went through to an answerphone.
In the end they did respond to our emails and renewed it for us, but by that time it was a bit too late to prevent the problems that occured from our nameservers being unreachable. Just remember that you get what you pay for, and if you want emergency telephone support, dont expect it unless you go for one of the big players.
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Thanks for the understanding Allan. My post may have actually looked promotional since I certainly like very much the websites I recommended, but the websites were certainly not mine or affiliate ones.
I considered raising this issue about my post when it has been moved. But since you were undergoing a difficult period, it did not seem fair to me to bring up a complaint-like issue at that time.
I must say I highly regard you and associateprograms.com is certainly among my favorite websites.
administrator wrote:
The instruction page said to add to an existing topic as a "reply" with a URL and sufficient explanation and it will stand.
Yes I know there is currently an instruction page, however at that time it wasn’t. I was actually unsure whether to respond at the SitBuildIt thread, or open a new thread. I decided the latter since my response would be a general one and considered it would be also useful for others. Also at some forums people are insistent that the post’s topic should match the category it’s written under.
I understand when a new thread is started with just one link and its description, it’s hard to know if it is self-promotional or not. However when 3 or more alternative options (links) from the same category are described, I find it very unlikely that the message would be self promotional. Especially if there are no affiliate links, the possibility that the poster would own all the websites is much reduced. So a possible suggestion would be a differential treatment of these kinds of messages.
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