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 Dec 26 2005, 08:58 PM
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 Don't wake ghostie.  Group: Official Member Posts: 3,546 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 2,405  |
I thought CB allowed you to advertise in your signature. I think CB should be much clearer in their rules rather than changing people's signatures without warning.
Doesn't CB state that we can advertise in signatures? If we can have a Forum advertise in the Web site section I don't understand why my signature, along with others, as been altered. If you own a forum, it's considered a website that you put your time into. |
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Dec 26 2005, 09:05 PM
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 Sunlight--shine on me. Group: Member Posts: 433 Joined: Jun 2005 Member No: 149,201 |
QUOTE(Retrogressive @ Dec 26 2005, 7:58 PM) If we can have a Forum advertise in the Web site section I don't understand why my signature, along with others, as been altered. If you own a forum, it's considered a website that you put your time into.  I AGREE! I have a forum---that's for FILM. And I don't understand how that competes in ANYWAY with CB.....  And now I'm no longer allowed to advertise?? No advertising forums completely?? My forum is for people who want to make films and LB's forum is set up totally different than CB is. It's set up like a prep school. This just doesn't make sense. SHARE THE LOVE 
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Dec 26 2005, 09:05 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Posts: 8,274 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,001 |
Waste too much space ?
We have competing sites too. I'm neutral. |
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Dec 26 2005, 09:07 PM
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Don't wake ghostie. Group: Official Member Posts: 3,546 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 2,405 |
But there is a difference between competing sites and non-competing sites. We post our websites because CB helped us learn. And the fact that there are mods who ARE NOT CLEARIFING this subject makes everything confusing. If you are going to inforce a rule shouldn't it exist?
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Dec 26 2005, 09:08 PM
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Sunlight--shine on me. Group: Member Posts: 433 Joined: Jun 2005 Member No: 149,201 |
QUOTE(Spiritual Winged Aura @ Dec 26 2005, 8:05 PM) Waste too much space ? We have competing sites too. I'm neutral. What do you mean wastes space?? It really Doesn't at all. A text link?? I've seen people here with links that truly are worthless and our forums have a point to them.  Text links take up very very little space. You could just stop the competing sites.
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Dec 26 2005, 09:16 PM
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Don't wake ghostie. Group: Official Member Posts: 3,546 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 2,405 |
I think we should focus on CB inforcing a rule that it doesn't have.
QUOTE Advertising Posting a thread for the sole purpose of advertising is not allowed. personal pages are only allowed in your signature, and commercial pages are only allowed for purposes of providing information. http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=970 |
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Dec 26 2005, 09:25 PM
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 show me a garden thats bursting to life Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,303 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 115,987 |
Define: Commercial
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Dec 26 2005, 09:27 PM
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Don't wake ghostie. Group: Official Member Posts: 3,546 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 2,405 |
Commercial is a website that you purchase things from.
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Dec 26 2005, 09:33 PM
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Sunlight--shine on me. Group: Member Posts: 433 Joined: Jun 2005 Member No: 149,201 |
FORUMS are NOT Commercial sites unless people are making a profit off of them or indirectly making a profit off of them.
RF (retrofied forums) is not making money off of advertising in CB sigs in anyway. RF does not Deal with money at ALL. It was/is a site that was created for fun to host design competitions and earn points. Differences Between RF and CB -CB isn't split into houses/clubs and is not set up like a prep school; RF is -CB was designed around offering layouts, RF was not designed with that as its soul purpose -The Forums have different sections, different names, different everything -RF was NOT branching off of CB and never intended to. It is a forum created as a different idea. It seems...(In my opinion) that certain people on CB staff do not want advertising in sigs because they fear people leaving the forum. However, that is not RF's fault. If people leave your forum and join other forums the other forum did not kidnap your members. Thank you. 
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Dec 26 2005, 09:35 PM
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Don't wake ghostie. Group: Official Member Posts: 3,546 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 2,405 |
Thank you Molly, you're right.
And this isn't just about RF. This is about a few other forums I've had in my sig that people at CB are into as well. Forums like a Harry Potter Forum, a Writer's forum, and a film forum. These forums have not only been removed from my signature but also other CB members. |
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Dec 26 2005, 09:37 PM
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 i've never wanted anything rationale. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 8,449 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 19,045 |
Umm get over it. We weren't allowed to advertise GenEff and we dealt with it.
If people want to join, they will contact you. |
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Dec 26 2005, 09:40 PM
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Don't wake ghostie. Group: Official Member Posts: 3,546 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 2,405 |
It's the principle that CB is inforcing rules that it doesn't have. I'm not trying to uproar about my forum. I'm trying to get this clearified for the CB users who have had their forums removed from sigs as well.
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Dec 26 2005, 09:41 PM
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Sunlight--shine on me. Group: Member Posts: 433 Joined: Jun 2005 Member No: 149,201 |
QUOTE(Rachel is love @ Dec 26 2005, 8:37 PM) Umm get over it. We weren't allowed to advertise GenEff and we dealt with it. If people want to join, they will contact you. How about YOU get over YOURSELF. GenEff was a different idea and several times was attacking CB's ideas. No offense. I'm in a pissy mood. And by the way, people do want to join, but the don't know the link and they do PM us.
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Dec 26 2005, 09:42 PM
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Senior Member Group: Posts: 8,274 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,001 |
QUOTE(EriaNight @ Dec 26 2005, 6:08 PM) What do you mean wastes space?? It really Doesn't at all. A text link?? I've seen people here with links that truly are worthless and our forums have a point to them. Text links take up very very little space. You could just stop the competing sites. I mean ... it takes up space according to one staff member. I don’t have proof for that. We can’t stop competing because other sites are against us ... including joking. Instead of advertising, why not submit your site to createBlog Top site or use the personal message system. |
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Dec 26 2005, 09:47 PM
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Sunlight--shine on me. Group: Member Posts: 433 Joined: Jun 2005 Member No: 149,201 |
QUOTE(Spiritual Winged Aura @ Dec 26 2005, 8:42 PM) I mean ... it takes up space according to one staff member. I don’t have proof for that. We can’t stop competing because other sites are against us ... including joking. Instead of advertising, why not submit your site to createBlog Top site or use the personal message system. WELL if you're going to consider putting up a link for a form "advertising" then putting up a link for a personal site is advertising as well. And what i mean by that is NEITHER is actually advertising. I never look at topsite, but I do look at people's sigs. I'm sure most people look at topsite and that oh all the forums we make get so high up that other people are actually going to get on them! again, i'm in a pissy mood. BTW we do use the personal message system. And also it still isn't advertising. And a link takes up less space then a PM 
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Dec 26 2005, 09:48 PM
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Senior Member Group: Posts: 8,274 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,001 |
QUOTE again, i'm in a pissy mood. BTW we do use the personal message system. And also it still isn't advertising. And a link takes up less space then a PM We deleted useless pms. There are 3 topics with reasons why advertisements will NOT be allowed. http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php...65&hl=advertise http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php...91&hl=advertise http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php...94&hl=advertise statements from random people ... QUOTE one reason i could think of as to why we have 'no ads' rule is that we don't get paid for it. meaning, when you advertise on yahoo!, google and the likes, they get paid for it, why should we have mass advertising, which takes up space and not be paid for it? spam is spam is spam. and then even if we allow ads, what kind of ads qualify and which do not.... we have showcases where our members get a chance to 'advertise' their personal sites. that is enough advertisement, in my opinion. QUOTE couldnt say it better....well i dont think alot of people will go to a forum thats filled with links and click away to view them..and if they do thats all we can...because we already got the website of the month and the website help and so forth...so all we can do is advertise..which like racoons > you said thats what the sigs are for.. QUOTE I don't think that's necessary...like the above have stated, we have signatures. If your site's not getting lots of hits, then it probably means you're not posting on cB enough and people don't see your link. And besides, an advertisement in a forum littered with ones identical to yours wouldn't help your site's popularity, people would just pass it by and eventually, the forum would become dead. QUOTE Well, considering that Dynasty appears to be some sort of Anti-CB forum and even makes fun of CB, it appears to be competing forum. As you should know, advertising of competing sites, whether it be by post or by sig, is not allowed.
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Dec 26 2005, 09:48 PM
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Don't wake ghostie. Group: Official Member Posts: 3,546 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 2,405 |
I don't consider linking in sigs as advertising to be quite honest. I see it as a list of people's projects. If I like them I want to check out what they've done so I can help out. I know even STAFF does that.
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Dec 26 2005, 09:51 PM
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I really had thought we had established advertisments in signatures had been sorted out, since during the Dynsaty phase, those got to stay. Now, I can kind of understand the ones that offshoot from cb, like rf and genf and clique etc, but the link to my friend's Harry Potter role playing forum Linda Belle had in her signature is gone too, and I don't think that makes any sense at all, especially since at one point we had a member called individualityy who had her own Hogwarts forum with a link in her signature and it never got removed, and a lot of dedicated members of cb joined. (I think we all stopped going quickly enough. but that isn't the point).
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Dec 26 2005, 09:53 PM
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Don't wake ghostie. Group: Official Member Posts: 3,546 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 2,405 |
Also I believe there are forums yet to be removed (rightly so since they have nothing to do with blogging) and when sA links were up no one removed those. And I can understand if forums were bashing CB. The Harry Potter forum was NOT and RF is for art and design and has NEVER bashed CB.
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Dec 26 2005, 09:55 PM
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Senior Member Group: Posts: 8,274 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,001 |
QUOTE The Harry Potter forum was NOT and RF is for art and design and has NEVER bashed CB. cB is base on graphic. Rf and Harry Potter is base on graphic too ... just like you say. There's official /designer membership's standard about loyality. edit I dunno about harry potter. |
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Dec 26 2005, 09:57 PM
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Don't wake ghostie. Group: Official Member Posts: 3,546 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 2,405 |
CreateBlog is based on BLOGGING.
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Dec 26 2005, 10:00 PM
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Sunlight--shine on me. Group: Member Posts: 433 Joined: Jun 2005 Member No: 149,201 |
MY List of WHY this is SO Wrong:
(I have NEVER been this angry with a forum in my entire life. And I actually like the people on CB staff)
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Dec 26 2005, 10:01 PM
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show me a garden thats bursting to life Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,303 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 115,987 |
Uhh Harry Potter is based on these books....
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Dec 26 2005, 10:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Posts: 8,274 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,001 |
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haha, i just realized it. QUOTE(Retrogressive @ Dec 26 2005, 6:57 PM) CreateBlog is based on BLOGGING.  Fine, it's both.QUOTE I just love how you guys link to topics and get other people to do the work for you and quote other people all the time instead of trying to take the time and explain it yourself. Or maybe you just don't know how to explain it because you don't exactly understand it? Problems keep on happening again (foreverrr ...  ). Who like to repeat themself? Why not quote ? Btw, I understand every posted quote.
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Dec 26 2005, 10:10 PM
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Sunlight--shine on me. Group: Member Posts: 433 Joined: Jun 2005 Member No: 149,201 |
QUOTE(Spiritual Winged Aura @ Dec 26 2005, 9:03 PM) Problems keep on happening again. Why not quote ? I do understand the quote. Right but instead of explaining it for yourself---you go ahead and post 3 whole threads, which i actually took the time to look over. A responsible person would state what his/her response is TO those threads instead of just POSTING THEM. Ever written an English paper? You're supposed explain the quote. And it doesn't matter if you "delete" useless PMs. You're still wrong. |
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