I'm fed up of referral links
New Deadline to get your signatures fixed: Thursday July 15, 2009
I'm fed up and tired of all the BS that's going on with referral links.
If people can't respect the fact that I'm allowing referral links in the first place (MOST deals websites do NOT allow referral links what so ever) then I'll have to disallow referral links all together.
I place very few ads on SC because I respect my members. Surprisingly some members post banners (larger than the ads on here!) with referral links and do not show any respect to other members.
I'll give all members 1 week to sort this out and significantly reduce the referral links clutter and if it's still a mess I'll censor all referral link websites, disallow any linking in signatures and disallow any referral links on SC.
Here are some suggestions for making the referral links work smoothly. If these are not implemented by next Thursday I will completely ban referral links from SC. If you see someone else not following the suggestions below please feel free to point them to this thread. It is up to SC'ers to decide, based on their actions, the fate of referral links on SC.
Here is what has to be done by next Thursday:
- Do not post more than 2 referral links in your signature and make sure it's the regular font size, not balded, not italicized and in the regular blue colour.
- Do not post banners or any images that links to a referral program.
- Do NOT start new threads about websites with referral links and post your referral link. If you want to let people know about a website that has referral links post the normal link without your referral code and then ask the next member to use the link in your signature.
- Do NOT expect everyone to use your referral code because you started a thread. You should have a chain where A refers B then B refers C etc.
- I don't care if the website gives a special prize to a person who refers the most people. Go advertise your referral link somewhere else.
- Do not argue or fight about whose referral link to use
- Do not post a referral link to any website that provides points by shopping at stores similar to the ones in SC's cashback. Come on, please respect the effort put into SC or just leave.
If all these suggestions are not being followed by next Thursday referral links on SC will be history.
I respect every member on SC. I never sent out mass emails, never tricked people into signing for anything for my benefit, never posted any referral links myself and always kept advertising to the very minimum to the point where I have actually had to pay for some stuff on SC from my own money because trust me Google ads doesn't cover the cost of everything going on in here. If you can't follow the same level of non-selfishness, SC isn't the right place for you.