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TeamLiquid ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
1 Post
March 26 2010 02:49 GMT
#1
Note: This isn't directed at any party in particular. If it wasn't a general issue, we would just ban a few people and go eat cheetos

This is a subject which has always been a bit of an issue, but was largely ignored because it happened relatively infrequently - staff from other sites using TL as a marketing tool for their own content. It's a bit of a grey area, because one could argue that it is contributing to the community as a whole, and that everyone should experience the content. There are some limits though.

If i have a party and invite all my friends, and there's a guy who gets along with everyone, shares some drinks and jokes and then says "hey we should do X tomorrow" that is great - everyone loves that - i love that. I'll put that stuff on the front page. If the same guy bursts into your party and screams "HEY GUYS, AMAZZZZING PARTY AT MY PLACE YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT!!!" every time he shows up, then i would probably punch that guy straight in the face. It's distasteful, and disrespectful.

Here's an example. JP from MLG is a new member to Teamliquid, and has been using the forums to let people know about the KOTH series and i assume in the future other tournaments. However, i regularly see him interacting on the forum and even in IRC. He polls community members for who should be in next weeks series and genuinely shows an interest in the community. This is good. If someone is "known" and we have the gut feeling that he's doing a good thing, then we will support it. If we feel that there's someone with 50 posts, and 30 of those posts are OPs to advertise/link his own content on another site, then we get our panties in a twist. Should we leave it open? Should we ban the guy? The answer isn't important. What is important is that we think its an issue and it feels like our system is being abused. TL hates abuse.

Be cool. Post. If you are new, tread lightly. Contribute to OUR community before you expect us to support yours. Don't make us think that you are using our site as a marketing tool and we wont have any problems.

Good ways to make us think you are a giant tool bag
- Make your user name your product/website name.
- Include a big ol' obnoxious link in your quote.
- Make a blog with a link to your offsite blog.
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Spartan
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States2030 Posts
March 26 2010 02:51 GMT
#2
I sense Spartan's 9th ban coming soon. Though I only blatantly posted a VG link once in the past few months (as far as I remember) - my beta key contests thread.
# http://nkspartan.com (web engineer)
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itmeJP
Profile Joined February 2010
United States1101 Posts
March 26 2010 02:57 GMT
#3
Hey I'm JP from MLG! Small world!
Twitter.com/itmeJP -- Twitch.tv/itmeJP -- YouTube.com/itmeJP
Moletrap
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1286 Posts
March 26 2010 02:58 GMT
#4
Here here.
aka Moletrap
Railz
Profile Joined July 2008
United States1448 Posts
March 26 2010 03:00 GMT
#5
Just a general question, because I see it popping up so often in the SC2 forum; is 'advertising' ones own you tube channel, be it for recorded replays or commentaries fair game?
Did the whole world just get a lot smaller and go whooosh?_-` Number 0ne By.Fantasy Fanatic!
Louder
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States2276 Posts
March 26 2010 03:00 GMT
#6
What if I blog on a specific site, and want to post a teaser in my TL blog, with a link to the offsite blog? Is that ok?
Kantutan
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada1319 Posts
March 26 2010 03:02 GMT
#7
On March 26 2010 11:51 Spartan wrote:
I sense Spartan's 9th ban coming soon. Though I only blatantly posted a VG link once in the past few months (as far as I remember) - my beta key contests thread.


I'm sure a lot of us without a beta key appreciated that threat. I did for sure.
Spartan
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States2030 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-26 03:02:49
March 26 2010 03:02 GMT
#8
On March 26 2010 12:00 Louder wrote:
What if I blog on a specific site, and want to post a teaser in my TL blog, with a link to the offsite blog? Is that ok?

Probably not since you apparently, which I would assume so, fit the "regular" member category. Hell, you've been here since 2002. O_O
# http://nkspartan.com (web engineer)
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Kennigit *
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada19375 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-26 03:06:03
March 26 2010 03:03 GMT
#9
On March 26 2010 12:00 Louder wrote:
What if I blog on a specific site, and want to post a teaser in my TL blog, with a link to the offsite blog? Is that ok?

If you are a contributing member of TL then no problems. For example, if EG guys want to put a brief quote and then link to their EG blog, we are fine with that. Our problem is when we see who we've never heard of with 50 posts and 30 of them are synopsis + link threads. Artosis is a lazy prick and makes threads that say "yo click this link". We don't really care though because he's obviously earned that. We aren't hammering down on people linking etc, we just want it to be classy. You do a lot of streaming, people love it - if you link your blog too then we don't care.
Louder
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States2276 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-26 03:25:49
March 26 2010 03:05 GMT
#10
On March 26 2010 12:03 Kennigit wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 26 2010 12:00 Louder wrote:
What if I blog on a specific site, and want to post a teaser in my TL blog, with a link to the offsite blog? Is that ok?

If you are a contributing member of TL then no problems. For example, if EG guys want to put a brief quote and then link to their EG blog, we are fine with that. Our problem is when we see guys who we've never heard of with 50 posts and 30 of them are synopsis + link threads. Artosis is a lazy prick and makes threads that say "yo click this link". We don't really care though because he's obviously earned that. We aren't hammering down on people linking etc, we just want it to be classy. You do a lot of streaming, people love it - if you link your blog too then we don't care.


Just confirming Thanks
Diamond
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States9882 Posts
March 26 2010 03:15 GMT
#11
Does iCCup count as contributing to the community? lol

In all seriousness though its good to see something like this! The boards are getting a little too much like free advertising.
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Raelcun
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States3714 Posts
March 26 2010 03:17 GMT
#12
Stop fishing for compliments lazy bum get back to work!
jtype
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
England1979 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-26 03:19:32
March 26 2010 03:17 GMT
#13
This is really just standard forum procedure (or at least, it should be), but it's amazing how much it gets overlooked. I've done it myself once or twice in the past and learned my lesson.

The ironic thing is - it's always the best communities; the ones you really want to 'market your stuff' to, that are the strictest about this. This shouldn't come as any surprise though, as that is one of the very fundamental reasons why they are the best in the first place - they promote/encourage/demand high quality forum posts and loyal members.

I'm glad (as always) to see this being mentioned and moderated, as it really does lead to a better and more focused community.

Thanks.
Zona
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
40425 Posts
March 26 2010 03:20 GMT
#14
On March 26 2010 11:49 Kennigit wrote:
If i have a party and invite all my friends, and theres a guy who gets along with everyone, shares some drinks and jokes and then says "hey we should do X tomorrow" that is great - everyone loves that - i love that. I'll put that stuff on the front page. If the same guy bursts into your party and screams "HEY GUYS, AMAZZZZING PARTY AT MY PLACE YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT!!!" every time he shows up, then i would probably punch that guy straight in the face. It's distasteful, and disrespectful.

I have to quote the analogy. It's good.
"If you try responding to those absurd posts every day, you become more damaged. So I pay no attention to them at all." Jung Myung Hoon (aka Fantasy), as translated by Kimoleon
Silent12ill
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States355 Posts
March 26 2010 03:39 GMT
#15
I agree with the OP if someone thought they had a party better than man that they would try
and pull people from mine.... id light his dick on fire.
Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka25801 Posts
March 26 2010 03:57 GMT
#16
That seems like a rational response.
Moderator@Manifesto7 - Ancient.
SilentCrono
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1420 Posts
March 26 2010 04:16 GMT
#17
MLG is going to support Starcraft 2?
♞ Your soul will forever be lost in the void of a horse. ♞
CursOr
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States6317 Posts
March 26 2010 05:00 GMT
#18
I don't do anything really that would require promotion... but if I ever do I'll keep this in mind. It does get annoying though... I've noticed it in a few places especially blogs and "what i do with my life" type threads.
CJ forever (-_-(-_-(-_-(-_-)-_-)-_-)-_-)
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18408 Posts
March 26 2010 06:04 GMT
#19
i think we should ban the motherfuckers

jk of course lol. yeah it's pretty annoying to see people doing those 3 things things you mention in the OP
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
deathgod6
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States4947 Posts
March 26 2010 06:09 GMT
#20
This makes sense. Thanks Kennigit.
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