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Aug 31, 2017 9:08 am |
FlyerTalk Forums Expert How-Tos and Guides
Applicable FlyerTalk Rules
3. Signatures (link to this rule)
A personalized signature is available to you once you have achieved 180 posts and 180 days as a member. Because these signatures appear at the bottom of every post you make, the following rules apply in order to minimize distraction within the forums:
- Signatures are subject to the rules governing all FlyerTalk content (e.g. those which forbid the furthering of illegal or fraudulent activities, the use of profanity, vulgarity, hatred, abusiveness and harassment).
- Affiliate or referral links resulting in any form of compensation, including points or miles, are not permitted in signatures.
- All links and referrals to credit card sign-up pages, marketplaces with a primary purpose to promote the sale or referral of credit cards, or any other offer related to credit cards, are prohibited in signatures. For clarification, if you author a blog focused in the areas of travel, miles and points, your signature may link to your blog — provided that the link is not directly to a post or webpage about credit cards.
- Except for credit card sign-up offers, signatures that specifically relate to your travel-related commercial ventures are allowed. Other commercial signatures are not allowed.
Signatures of a religious or political nature (other than campaigning for FlyerTalk's elected TalkBoard) are not allowed.
- Signatures containing drect links away from FlyerTalk to charitable activities are not allowed, but you may use a link to your thread in the FlyerTalk Cares forum. (See Rule 11 — Charitable Posts.)
- You may not manually insert a signature into the body of a message or user profile unless you are an official company representative, as designated by a green-colored username. A brief close in the body of a message, such as, "Regards," "Cheers," "Travel Safely," or "Thanks," with or without your name or user name, is permitted.
- Graphically, your signature must conform to the following standards:
- Use no larger than the FlyerTalk default posting font size.
- Limit it to two lines.
- Limit the use of emoticons or other highlighting characters/symbols/other keystrokes to 2 (total) per signature.
- Do not use spaces, characters, symbols or other keystrokes that stretch your signature beyond standard column widths.
- Do not use all-caps, alternating caps, alternating use of color, or other unconventional methods of attracting attention to your signature. Two emoticons, characters, symbols or other key strokes in addition to text are permitted.
- Do not embed images of any kind in your signature.
10. Commercial Posts (link to this rule)
Posts of a commercial nature on FlyerTalk are limited to the following:
- Signatures that specifically relate to your travel-related ventures (this does not include credit cards), once you have achieved both 180 posts and 180 days as a member of FlyerTalk.
- Travel-industry related professionals who have received official recognition by the Community Director and therefore identified by green-colored usernames.
- All other posts of a commercial nature – whether in a post, signature or profile – are prohibited. In this rule, commercial posts include those containing promotional messages for commercial products or services, including but not limited to internet sites and business advertisements.
- FlyerTalk is not a marketplace and nothing may be offered for sale or barter. The exception to this rule is those items in the Coupon Connection (C.C.) Forum, which is governed by specific posting rules, and access to which is granted once you have achieved 180 posts and 180 days as a member.
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