Community Rules:
Our community guidelines are designed to protect the interests of our membership and support the
ABW community values. For our membership, the rules encourage real, open, and honest discussion centered around
affiliate marketing for all interested parties. For our moderation staff, the rules enforce objectivity, fairness, and consistency in how we maintain focus in our discussions and serve our members.
We hope you continue to find ABestWeb to be the best place to discuss, learn about, and lead the affiliate marketing industry.
ABestWeb™ Affiliate Marketing Forum Rules
1. Content of Posts
Messages posted to this board are solely the opinion and responsibility of the person posting the message.
- Posts containing obscene material will be removed and a ban warning may be issued
- Posts containing racial/color/sexual/religious intolerance or discrimination will be removed and a ban warning will be issued
- Posts containing threats, violence, or illegal material will be removed and a ban warning will be issued
- Posts containing material that infringes copyright will be removed and repeated offenses may lead to a ban (warez/hacks are also prohibited)
2. Board Moderation
Board moderators and administrators (forum staff) retain the right to edit, move, delete threads/posts, or restrict access to the site in good faith within the guidelines of these forum rules. Please respect their decisions. When necessary, address your concerns to the forum ownership via this
form where it will be reviewed.
3. Banning
Bans may be temporary or permanent, in the best interests of the ABestWeb membership at large. Members who fail to adhere to our rules may be banned, with notification informing the member of the rule that has been violated. Spammers are banned permanently and without communication. If you believe there has been a mistake, address your concern to the forum ownership via this
form where it will be reviewed.
If a banned member continuously attempts to harass the board and/or its members the personal information of that banned person will be forwarded to the responsible authorities and the offender will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Banning is based on the severity of the infraction or sum of the multiple offenses and is solely in our discretion.
4. Historical Post Editing
ABestWeb policy is to not edit historical posts in any manner, or upon request. If ABestWeb rank’s well for specific keywords or domain(s) it is because a search engine thinks it is relevant.
5. Recruiting
Any recruiting other than by Affiliate managers for their paid and listed [on ABestWeb] programs and/or any member who attempts to recruit membership for another board will result in a ban.
6. Aliases
Creating an alias account impersonating, offending, or similar in nature to an existing board member's alias or other inappropriate name is prohibited. Reregistration by previously banned members is prohibited. Multiple offenders will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Two accounts sharing the same computer is a rules violation and will result in a permanent ban!
7. Member Identity or URL Exposing
Any member who posts another member's
url or urls to their site(s), their real name or other personal information in BAD FAITH, will immediately be banned.
8. Unauthorized Advertising
Unauthorized advertisements are prohibited, and may lead to being banned. SPAM postings lead to immediate bans. Current advertising offerings can be found
here .
9. Legal Claims of Action
Any claim of action against any one person or company are not allowed, any posts containing such will either be locked, edited or removed (depending on severity). Multiple postings by a member claiming action against any company or person shall result in a ban, whether such claims are real or not.
10. Signatures and Private Messaging
Signatures must not be greater than three lines of text and may not contain links to any adult or otherwise offensive websites (in our sole opinion). Images are Not allowed in signatures, nor are any affiliate link(s) or any keyword stuffing attempts. Any signature that violates these rules will be deleted without notice and your signature right will be removed. Signature and Private Messaging rights come after 250 posts, rights may be granted prior to such number of posts based on the Admin's sole discretion. Members who don’t post for 90 days lose signature rights. Members who become active again can have their signature rights restored upon request.
New members (newbies) are not allowed to add links/images to their posts, first offense will/may result in a warning and removal of the link. Subsequent violations will result in a ban.
ABestWeb Affiliate Chat Rules
• Login only with your
ABW username.
• Anyone logging in using another's username will be IP banned.
• Any recruiting other than by Affiliate managers for their programs will result in a Ban.
• Any Spam will result in an IP Ban.
• Any Identity or site revealing of any sort will result in a Ban.
• Any lewd comments or profane language will result in a Ban.
Additional Notes
In addition to the rules above, you agree to iNET Interactive’s
Terms of Use and
Privacy Policy. If there are any conflicts between the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and the forum rules above, iNET Interactive’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy shall apply.
For reference, you can find the previous forum rules here.
If you cannot agree to these terms, please do not use our forum or chat room
Thank you,
Chuck Hamrick
ABestWeb Administrator
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