Teen Hut Advertising Forum Guidelines
Version 1.0.1 | Last Update: June 06, 2011
Introduction
This forum is designed for members of our community to advertise their websites. As a result, Teen Hut does not allow advertisements in any other area, including, but not limited to: other forum categories, private messages, and visitor messages. Advertisements not posted in this forum, or advertisements not following the advertising guidelines risk URL censorship and/or deletion of one or all the advertisements posted by that user, depending of the severity of the violation.
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Guidelines
When posting in this forum, the following rules, in addition to the Teen Hut Forum Rules and Guidelines, must be followed:
For everyone:
IN ADDITION:
If the user has less than or exactly 50 posts:
If the user has more than 50 posts:
Notes
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Revision History
Version 1.0.1 | Last Update: June 06, 2011
Introduction
This forum is designed for members of our community to advertise their websites. As a result, Teen Hut does not allow advertisements in any other area, including, but not limited to: other forum categories, private messages, and visitor messages. Advertisements not posted in this forum, or advertisements not following the advertising guidelines risk URL censorship and/or deletion of one or all the advertisements posted by that user, depending of the severity of the violation.
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Guidelines
When posting in this forum, the following rules, in addition to the Teen Hut Forum Rules and Guidelines, must be followed:
For everyone:
- Advertisement of illegal, adult, harmful (as deemed by an administrator) or phishing content is not allowed.
- IMPORTANT: Forums in which registration/login is required to view the advertised content will be assumed to have inappropriate content and will therefore not be allowed, unless approval is given from a staff member.
- IMPORTANT: Forums in which registration/login is required to view the advertised content will be assumed to have inappropriate content and will therefore not be allowed, unless approval is given from a staff member.
- Blatant advertisements of competing teen forums will not be allowed.
- Advertisements for the purchase of a product via email or an unknown/untrustworthy website will be not allowed.
- Users must not advertise another website in someone else's thread (this will be considered as hijacking a thread).
- Users may ask questions or provide comments on a site. Negative feedback must be in the form of constructive criticism.
- The same advertisement must not be posted in more than one thread.
- Posting a website that mirrors a previously advertised website is still considered the same advertisement.
- Creating a new website for the sole purpose of linking to a previously advertised website is still considered the same website.
- Posting a website that mirrors a previously advertised website is still considered the same advertisement.
- Posting just a link will not be allowed. The thread must contain a description of the advertised link.
- Using URL redirection services to your website is allowed.
- Example: TinyURL
- Example: TinyURL
IN ADDITION:
If the user has less than or exactly 50 posts:
- Only one (1) advertisement is allowed per account, user, or IP address.
- Bumping will be allowed every 72 hours up to three consecutive times.
- Warning: Forming an alliance for the sole purpose of bumping an advertisement/bypassing the bumping limit will not be tolerated. If a thread is not posted in after three consecutive bumps, it can be assumed that the advertisement does not interest teens and should not be bumped more.
- Warning: Forming an alliance for the sole purpose of bumping an advertisement/bypassing the bumping limit will not be tolerated. If a thread is not posted in after three consecutive bumps, it can be assumed that the advertisement does not interest teens and should not be bumped more.
- Advertising more than one (1) website will be allowed only if a publicly visible link back to our site (www.teenhut.net) is on the advertised site.
- A limit of four advertisements may be posted this way.
- A limit of four advertisements may be posted this way.
If the user has more than 50 posts:
- Up to ten (10) advertisements are allowed per account, user, or IP address.
- Bumping will be allowed every 48 hours up to four consecutive times.
- Warning: Forming an alliance for the sole purpose of bumping an advertisement/bypassing the bumping limit will not be tolerated.
- Warning: Forming an alliance for the sole purpose of bumping an advertisement/bypassing the bumping limit will not be tolerated.
- Advertising more than ten (10) website will be allowed only if a publicly visible link back to our site (www.teenhut.net) is on the advertised site.
Notes
- Exceptions to these rules may be issued by any moderation or administration team member upon request with a valid reason. To request for an expection, please private message any team member.
- Posting a link to a well-known business or its product in response to a genuine question or statement is not considered advertising under most circumstances. Examples include linking to the Mozilla Firefox download page or linking to a Wikipedia page.
- Staff members reserve the right to modify these rules (this page) without any notice.
- Recommended contact person for exception requests or further explanation of these guidelines:
SE7EN
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Revision History
- June 06, 2011 - Increased maximum bumping limit by one