Unpaid Advertising - A Reshresher
There has been a flurry of unpaid advertising of late and I am getting tired of needing to police it so much. Below is a partial listing of what is and is not allowed.
A non-advertiser should not be posting a link to their website, nor a phone number, nor an address, rates, services or availability in their profile or in any postings. It does not matter if you are an SP, a photographer, a website builder or anything else,
Nor should a non-advertiser put a picture of themselves in their signature, in their posts, or use it as an avatar. Links to non-business conducting sites are fine for anyone to post.
If you are part of a duo and one of you is a Paid Advertiser than you can advertise that you are a duo, and you can reference your partner, you cannot advertise for your duo partner nor anyone else.
A massage parlour who is a paid advertiser can advertise the parlour, or any of the girls. The girls who work for the parlour cannot advertise themselves unless they themselves are paid advertisers.
A paid advertiser can advertise themselves pretty much anyway they want; but only themselves.
If you have sent money you cannot advertise until you are in red, or until Fred has confirmed receipt of your funds.
I am sure some of the more creative non-advertisers will find things that I missed; so as a general overlaying principle; if you are not a Paid Advertiser you cannot do anything, that in anyway could be construed to be advertising. If you even think it is, then it is and don`t do it.
I have put this thread in the forums of the major cities, nobody will be able to say "I didn`t know".
