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Fairy and the Terms of Service

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Paul
Well posted 1 blog so far, seems you group is rather unfriendly.
What you cannot promote yourself?
Two unkind remarks already, maybe your group is not worth hanging around.



@fairyastara ,
Sorry that you feel that way but maybe you should have checked the terms of service agreement before posting your first journal @fairyastara #39209 about a commercial service.

Let me demonstrate what you would have seen if your read it:


Conduct
By becoming an e:peep you agree to not create and/or display e:content that:

1. is for commercial purposes, including but not limited to the sale of merchandise ...

Paul

I refuse to let people sell shit on the commercial free web space I worked so hard to shield from commercial influence. I myself spent thousands of hours working on this and have made no money from it. If you want to go ahead and talk about your life and spiritual beliefs people would take it a lot different than when you start out trying to sell something.

Just imagine it like this. A group of people in a club meet at Delaware park to talk about their lives, etc and someone they don't know comes up and says, "hey I sell crystal balls if you are interested." What do you think their reaction would be?
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💬 11 comments

  1. joshua ·

    Paul, you did the right thing. But you knew that.

    Lets be honest, if anybody deserves to make money here its you. As far as I'm concerned overt sales pitches should be deleted immediately - it spoils the community and goes against the ethos of the project. If somebody is offended by that... life is tough. Wear a helmet. This lady should understand that it has nothing to do with being friendly or not - it has to do with exactly what you just described.

  2. fellyconnelly ·

    oh man... i guess my next post wherein i was going to invite people to purchase my afghani medicinal hair serum/hemroid cream from my personal website should be nixed, huh?
    especially since i don't know how to spell 'hemroid'.... :)

  3. jim ·

    Paul, you are such an anticapitalowiccaist.

  4. james ·

    Felly, Jim

    While reading your comments I laughed so hard I vomited a little.

    And those are two seperate comments. So that makes twice I did that.

    Christ/Astarte that is funny

  5. jacob ·

    :::link:::

  6. paul ·

    Thanks for pointing that out jacob. I will make sure to send chris a link to this post.

  7. mike ·

    how is it any different than people promoting their roller derby games or djing? which by the by I don't have a problem with, i'm just saying I tihnk tryting to promote things you do or are employed is just naturally part of a journal cuz it is part of what you do/who you are.

  8. jenks ·

    i think maybe the diff is- say hello, introduce yourself a little, before diving into a sales pitch. It's one thing to promote what you do as part of your journal, I think it's different if it's the SOLE purpose for being here. I notice that fairy did not respond to the "tell us about yourself" comments and chose to just leave....

  9. paul ·

    I think @jenks explained it very well. I do however, selectively enforce this when I feel it is taken to far, or when it is new people who have little vested interest in the community. Like I let @imk2 talk about selling her pots, because that was not what her journal is about, just a facet of it.

  10. paul ·

    Not to mention that, by enforce, I did not delete the journal or even request she take it down. I just explained that it was against the terms of service agreement.

  11. jacob ·

    I appreciate the clarification. It's nice to see this really is a community. A fact demonstrated by this very discussion. Cheers!

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