New Rules regarding Advertising/ Paid Hacks/ Commercial Add-ons/ Beta & Lite Versions

[Erwin]

<u>Advertising/ Posting of commercial or paid hacks - Rule clarification</u>

1) No promotional language in signatures may be used. Links to websites are acceptable provided they merely state facts rather than attempt to promote services or products. The signatures rules still apply to such signatures.

2) Paid hack or commercial addons can be discussed. However, authors of the commercial hack or addon cannot start threads discussing their own products. If they are found using another account to circumvent this rule, all accounts involved will be banned.

3) Beta or Lite versions of commercial hacks may be released here as long as:
a) The beta or lite version is fully functional
b) The beta or lite version is not time limited in any way
c) The beta or lite version is completely free
d) The beta or lite version is stand-alone and completely separate to the full version
e) A link back to the full version is allowed, as long as no price or promotional language is embedded into the beta or lite version.

4) Addons for commercial hacks may be released here as long as:
a) A free beta or lite version of the commercial hack has been released here as per Rule (3) above.
b) The addon is fully functional
c) The addon is not time limited in any way
d) The addon is completely free
e) A link back to the full version is allowed, as long as no price or promotional language is embedded into the addon.

5) Addons for the following commercial software are exempted from Rule (4) - ie. members can release hacks for these. Any commercial software not listed below will be subject to Rule (4):
a) Photopost

[Erwin]

NOTE: New amendment effectively immediately:

4) Addons for commercial hacks may be released here as long as:
a) A free beta or lite version of the commercial hack has been released here as per Rule (3) above.

As such, all add-ons for commercial hacks that do not have a free "lite" version be removed retrospectively.

[Erwin]

NOTE: New amendment effective immediately:

5) Addons for the following commercial software are exempted from Rule (4) - ie. members can release hacks for these. Any commercial software not listed below will be subject to Rule (4):
a) Photopost