Terms of Service (TOS) - Update

[Eric Lyon]

A slight update of the NamePros Terms Of Service:
Due to some misunderstandings regarding the rules in conjunction with self promotion / advertising / forum spam, we have updated a few lines of the TOS to try and help make it a little bit easier to understand.

The following updates have been implemented:

Discussion Forums are intended for member discussion. Self Promotion / Advertising is only permitted in the marketplace/advertising forums and in your signature.

DO NOT SPAM THE FORUM - Think before your post and make sure you are posting in the right forum category!

Posting a link to a page that is full of affiliate links and has no real content value may be considered an attempt to manipulate the no affiliate links in posts rule and removed as spam. Each case will be assessed individually and outcomes may vary. Please keep your affiliate related self promotion / advertising in your signature.

Self Promotion and Advertising have relatively the same definitions and are therefore treated as the same. We do have a few industry leaders that post viable press releases that are acceptable in forums such as, but not limited to: Warnings & Alerts, Industry News, Legal Issues, etc.. What we want to avoid is a bunch of self promotion / advertising / spam to sites with very little content, full of affiliate links and no content, copy / pasted / ripped articles, etc.. It's normal for people to refer others to news and tools they used and loved, However if a person is posting their own news or tools it then becomes questionable self promotional advertising. Each case will be assessed individually and outcomes may vary. If in doubt, please ask or take advantage of your signature area and or NamePros advertising option for your self promotional advertising campaigns. Thanks!

Signatures need to be set up in your profile. Signatures should contain no more than 4 lines. Signature links may not include links to sites that contain explicit, sexually-orientated, illegal or obscene content. Affiliate links are allowed in signatures but not in posts.

Terms Of Service: http://www.namepros.com/TOS.html#faq_site_rules

We hope that the above updates help clear any confusion up and assist as a reference point to continue keeping NamePros as spam free as possible.

Thanks,

Eric Lyon