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Welcome to Forum Promotion
We warmly welcome you to Forum Promotion, and it is our pleasure to have you here. We ask that you please take a few minutes of your time to familiarize yourself with these guidelines.


Global Rules

• Use Common Sense​

  • All posts must contribute productively to the conversation and be written to the best of the author’s ability. We do not allow posts that contain spam, excessive swearing, rude comments, or inappropriate material. Avoid posting personal information such as your home address or phone number.

• Posting on FP​

  • The spelling and grammar of your posts is not required to be perfect; however, we do ask that you post to the best of your grammatical abilities. In addition, while we’re not very strict when it comes to post quality, we ask you to please post at least one (1) sentence per post, and reframe from posting things such as “Bump”, unless you are playing a Forum Game.

• Unsuitable Content​

  • Any website that includes inappropriate content may not be discussed, linked to, or advertised on Forum Promotion. Unsuitable content includes the following:
    • Pirated or nulled software
    • Hacking (black hat and white hat)
    • Torrents and black hat SEO
    • Pornography
    • Non-English content
    • Misleading links, shock images, and shock videos
    • Content that targets hate on the basis of race, religion, or belief group
    • Anything else determined to be unsuitable

• Only Advertise Where Allowed​

  • Posting links to your site or affiliate links in off-topic areas is not allowed. Private messages and profile comments may not be used to advertise your website, forum, or thread. If you receive a PM that violates these rules, please report it. Private messages cannot be used until a user makes five (5) posts. Affiliate links may only be posted in the proper section of our Promotion Directory.

• Multiple Accounts​

  • Please make one account and stick to it. Any forum cash that is obtained from the use of multiple accounts will be removed. In extreme cases, all of your accounts may be banned from Forum Promotion. Ban evasion is not tolerated. Switching accounts may be allowed in special circumstances with the permission of an administrator. If you are using the same computer or IP Address as another member, please contact us prior to signing up to prevent any potential issues from arising. Accounts and login credentials may not be shared with anyone else.

• Backseat Moderation​

  • If you see a post that breaks the rules, please simply report it, rather than replying to the post. We appreciate that you want to help, and you can help us by reporting posts that break the rules; when users try to solve problems themselves, it often causes problems and arguments.

• Signatures & Avatars​

  • Both signatures and avatars may not contain inappropriate material and may be removed without warning. Signatures must have a total height of 150 pixels or less. That means that, including all images and text together, the signature’s total size may not exceed 150 pixels vertically. For staff members, valued contributors, and retired administrators, this limit is 200 pixels. Finally, no individual image in the signature may exceed 650 pixels in width. Example

• Constructive Feedback​

  • We appreciate feedback on all of our services and operations. However, we can only consider ideas which are constructive and well-formed. Please be polite and constructive when leaving feedback to Forum Promotion, its staff, and to your fellow members.

• Miscellaneous​

  • Reputation and trade feedback may not be bought or sold, or used dishonestly.
  • Harassment is not allowed. This includes pestering via private message.
  • Exchanges can only involve websites which follow our suitable content rules (see above).
  • Complaints about any member should be made to the Community Team Leader. Complaints about any staff member should be made to the staff member’s Team Leader or to the Administrative Team.
  • Banned user’s websites may not be advertised on Forum Promotion.
  • Illegal activity such as scamming, hacking, and abuse is not tolerated.
  • Bumping old topics is allowed if you are the original poster or within ‘Non-Promotion’ and ‘Managing Online Forums and Websites’ categories. Avoid bumping too many old topics at once to prevent confusion.

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Official Policies

• Terms & Rules: Click Here
• Privacy Policy: Click Here
• Acceptable Content: Click Here

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Moderation Policy

All moderation on Forum Promotion is performed against a uniform set of internal guidelines and procedures. All cases of a similar nature will be treated equally, and fairly. For transparency, our moderation policy includes:

• Minor offenses will result in a verbal warning. This includes things like advertising in the wrong areas, posting "bump" in PD threads, signature reminders, and other small things that do not harm members. This will be issued via private message.
• Moderate offenses will result in a strongly worded formal warning. This includes things like multiple spam PMs, arguing, first time malicious duplicate accounts, consistent negativity towards members, and other things that may come across as rude or tasteless, but don't harm people.
• Severe offenses will result in a warning at minimum. This includes things like scamming, hacking, ripping, member abuse, and other high-end offenses that harm members. Often a temporary ban will be applied to your account, which may be extended to a permanent ban for extreme offenses, or repeated behavior past a temporary ban.
• Loss of privileges will occur when FP Administration believes that it's in the best interest of the community. We use things such as moderator queue, PM restrictions, marketplace ban, the "Cone of Silence Restriction" (where any form of private contact is not allowed) in cases where members have shown themselves not responsible enough to use these features. This will be for an indefinite period of time.
• Temporary bans will not occur until after the first official warning. Normally (except in the case of an extreme violation), you will receive at least one warning before we decide to temporarily ban you. Once you're temporarily banned, you cannot be unbanned until your sentence is carried out in full. We do not accept appeals.
• Permanent bans are very rare. However, they do happen. Permanent bans are not appealable until at twelve months after the original ban date, and any attempts to evade the ban will result in another month being added onto the ban. Before you're permanently banned, you'll be given every chance to prove yourself as a productive member of the community. You may appeal a permanent ban via the 'Contact Form' found in the footer of the site; This will be delivered directly to the Administrators.

That is our moderation policy, briefly. If you believe that you've been "wronged" by a moderation decision, please send a Private Message to the Community Team Leader, or an Administrator if the situation involves the Community Team Leader.​