13a.
Do not put links to commercial sites or services or to competing forums in signatures and posts.[*]Cross promotion of, or links to, other forums which deal with the same subject matter as this forum is prohibited.[*]Links in posts to your own blogs or code site should be directly to the relevant
free material on your site that addresses the topic of that thread specifically. [*]Links in signatures should be to the landing page on your site that predominantly presents your
free material. Any content that advertises commercial services should be on a page that is accessed from your home page. Do not link directly to your commercial offerings from the forum.[*]Random links to any commercial offering will be removed, possibly with a ban if considered spam. [*]If for some reason you are convinced you should be allowed to link to your commercial services or pages directly, seek permission from the Moderation/Administration team
in advance. Do not get your hopes up, but it can't hurt to ask.[/LIST]
13b.
Do not put links to personal sites or services as your sole contribution here on the forum.[*]If the only thing you have to offer, even in the
Water Cooler and
Tools/Tips sections, is links to your own blogs or personal sites/services, let us respectfully say,
"No thank you." This is not meant personally, but the Excel Forum is a community, if you wish to participate substantively within this community, then do so. [*]Posting links to your free tools and tips directly in the threads of our questioners is acceptable if it represents
less than 10% of your contributions. Thus, we only expect to see you pointing people to your own free links 1 in 10 posts, if that. [*]Earn your stripes helping directly the way we all do, then the linking for common tasks is natural and acceptable.
13c.
Do not solicit payments in your posts or signatures.[*]This is a free forum, all of your free forum contributions will be offered in this spirit, both in posts and signatures.
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