Promotion of crowd-funding campaign
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I haven’t posted yet because I want to make sure I’m not doing something wrong. I’m wondering if it is permissible under the WordPress TOS to promote my crowd-funding campaign. I have reviewed the TOS and I see nothing that forbids it and it would seem to be okay if it is not a fraudulent or otherwise illegal thing. I’ll wait to hear something on this before I go ahead.
Thanks,
ETKThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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timethief: Thanks for your reply, but I think you have misunderstood what I am asking. I don’t want to build a crowdfunding platform on the wordpress platform. I just want to know if it’s ok to promote my crowdfunding campaign within my blog; the campaign is being set up in an existing crowdfunding platform.
Thanks.
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I’m sorry I forgot to post the fact that I did tag this thread for a Staff response re: promotional advertising. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.
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Both of the links you offered seem to go to the same post which is totally irrelevant to my request. Perhaps I’m confused?
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I simply posted them for background information and then tagged this thread for Staff to respond to your question. Please be patient while waiting for that to happen.
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Hi Evan,
I spoke with our ToS team, and if you took a post to promote and talk about your Crowd-funding Campaign and link to a donation page that would be fine and wouldn’t be violating our ToS.
Just an example of what would be against our ToS is every post was a Donation link as this would be considered linkfarming.
Let me know if you have any questions with this!
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Would it be a ToS violation if you made the post a sticky, so it stayed on a site’s front page for the duration of the fundraiser? I’m considering participating in a fundraiser and wondered the same thing as etconner – whether it was allowed to promote the my part in the fundraiser on my WP site.
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A single post is a single post – sticky or not, so I say “yes”.
The limitation here is not creating a pseudo blog that’s just being pimped out with post after post after post that all drive traffic to the third party crowd funding site.
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You’re welcome. I’m confident that Staff will agree with my interpretation when they post here again. If I hadn’t been I wouldn’t have posted what I did but as you know Staff make the calls not Volunteers. -
Yes I agree with @timethief here. If the post is a sticky that is fine. :)
We really don’t have any issues with writing about a fundraiser and adding a link to the donation site. What we just want to prevent is the sole purpose of a site being to drive traffic to a 3rd party site.
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