Leaderboard

Just a reminder... advertising is still not permitted on WebFlake. It's not as confusing as it sounds. You may advertise a site or service using any of these three choices: Signature - you can paste a link, an image, etc to the site of your choosing, including sites that offer services such as hosting. You're welcome to link to your marketplace topic, if you have one. You may not reference your signature in any topic or post. i.e. "Hey, check out my signature for hosting!" is not acceptable. If people notice it, they will click on it. Please remember to follow all signature guidelines. Marketplace - you may create a service topic in our marketplace, advertising your service with imagery, links, etc. You can make the topic as elaborate as you like (within the confines of our guidelines), and discuss your service(s) there. You may not bump the topic, or even link to it in other discussions. If users are seeking your particular service, they will navigate to the marketplace and click on it. Paid Ad - sometimes you will notice ads that are not linked to professional companies. These ads are provided by freelance users who pay for advertising space within our community. Only regular members and guests will see these ads. I've seen users linking to their marketplace topic in a variety of discussions throughout the forum, which is not permitted. The only exception to this rule is if a user explicitly requests a 'ripped' skin, and you happen to provide that sort of service. For example: User A posts a topic in IP.Board Requests and writes: "I'm looking to have the skin at ThisDomain.com ripped. Can someone do this?". User B comes along and says "Sure! I have a skin ripping service located here: webflake.sx/topic/123-skin-rip-topic". This is permissible. If the user does not request a ripped skin, you may not advertise a ripping service. You may not enter another user's topic regarding the creation of a new website, and promote your hosting service. These sort of responses will earn you warnings and habitual offenses will result in deletion of your service topics / signatures / etc, or worse.. a ban.

I had a long-winded response to this, but then thought better of it. I'll keep it short and sweet, with two points: We're not a business. We are a community. Whether our announcements look "professional" or not is irrelevant. Calling someone a dumbass is considered poor customer service. If I think you're a dumbass, I'll say so -- because we're not a business. Sometimes clarification is necessary. Our guidelines weren't put together under the pretense of knowing every potential loophole or exploit that would be found in the future. There is no mention of not being able to advertise your marketplace topic in other parts of the forum, thus my clarification of such today. Could we ban users whimsically? Sure. Are we going to? Nope. Bottom line, if the subject matter is relevant and worth announcing, it'll be posted as an Announcement. Do I care if anyone reads it? Not at all. It's your responsibility to do so. This way, when we do ban users for failing to adhere to our guidelines, we can cite that announcement. Just because we offer licensed products for free here, doesn't mean we're without principle.

I agree with the clog up. The announcements are filled with reminders. I would like to see some more cool Announcements and Updates they use to do within that forum. All the reminders that the site already has is enough. Making a reminder topic just adds more clutter. Like he stated above just Warn | Ban | Suspend them. This is a resource site, a site that helps other people. If they want to abuse the features this site offers, then ban them. Then they will realize that they need Webflake, not Webflake needs them.

This is already installed on your forum. Go to System > System Settings > Members > Reputation System > Reputation Type. And to get what you wanted in the pic select "Both Positive and Negative Reputations Points.

Good point. None the less. I love the quality of your cereals.

I've never been a big fan of them. IMO it kinda looks unprofessional and you guys just shouldn't do it in the first place. If people don't want to follow the rules, warn them, suspend them, or even permaban them, but the reminders do nothing but clog up the announcements forum with stuff that isn't of particular value (we have the rules already, so...). If people don't want to listen then just deal with them appropriately, I'm sure you have all learned that it is literally impossible to get the message to the stupid people on the internet (aka all the idiots who need the reminder). Just a thought.

I'm not being abusive, I merely have a low tolerance for people like you. Your reputation precedes you. http://webflake.sx/topic/1526-a-note-from-evarni/?p=23619 That's just a few; the rest we purged with other spam filth. Good luck.