Is it against the rules to put adfly...etc links?

[Paiuand]

Title says it

 

[Paiuand]

Still didnt answer my question, and yeah ik but im still a hypocrite...

 

[Xandrid]

Pretty sure it is, and for good reason too

 

[Paiuand]

Hmm, yea

 

[Xandrid]

Plus people have stuff like adfly skipper, which is super convenient

 

[The Catboy]

Although I don't see it directly in the rules, one could argue that those sites fall under "pyramid schemes," and "Advertising."

 

[Jayro]

I live by the Adfly Skipper, that shit is so damn annoying.

 

[FAST6191]

Probably not against the rules, especially if it is in your signature or a guide you wrote or something like that, and there have been people that tried to use them in the past. It is however considered a dick move and if someone in turn quotes you, removing all the links and you complain the staff will probably apologise, mainly as the initial ignoring of the report would not have thanked the quoter.

There have been occasions, most notably for me the time I was asked to install minecraft mods for a client's kid, and if minecraft modding was not as obtuse as it is* then the endless adfly links on most of the main forums people release stuff on sealed the deal.

*all that I am, do and have done for years and I still found installing the things annoying. Though some of that was because they tried to explain things simply and failed both the simple needing people and those that might know what they are doing, or they tried to make an installer and failed. Equally the lack of a particularly well defined way of making mods did not help.

So yeah probably not against the rules, very much discouraged and it is doubtful anybody would help you if they were bypassed. We want a nice community type experience here and said links do not aid in this. If it was something actually valuable to the forum then don't be surprised if someone reads it, learns what there is to know and then writes a better version, which is subsequently promoted, stuck and whatever in an effort to downplay the earlier one.

 

[Cyan]

I personally don't like users adding adfly links to their posts.
I'm fine in the signature, but inside a post it's annoying.

- The user has to wait to get the download (when link is working, no adblock enabled, etc.). Personally, when I encounter adfly, I don't deactivate my adblock and just ignore the download. it piss both me and you.
- Users may think it's a forum enforcing decision to have advertisement on external links, while it's not related to the forum. the forum doesn't get money from it.
- a lot of users do it to share ILLEGAL (doesn't last long on gbatemp) or at best THIRD PARTY (not even YOUR WORK !!) files. It's hypocrisy to expect winning money on someone else's work. I usually disabled these kind of adfly links, winning money on piracy and other people work is a low move. Usually, pirates and hackers have pride and respect of other people's work.

Now, if it's you own work, it's not forbidden in the rules, but like FAST said, it's not well seen by members and is discouraged.

We are a community willing to share our knowledge. I did it for years for free, I don't need to get money to enjoy helping others. each his own I guess.