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Hi! We've reached a point in our growth as a community where it's time to lay down some rules. But before the rules, an explanation: I am an enabler. I love being enabled. I love sharing the goodness of all the wonderful sites out there, and the gorgeous product that we can all use to create our pages. That's something I don't want to lose. I also don't want to police things. But if rules are set and agreed to by the community, we can all develop a place where we can enjoy our hobby in freedom, make friends across the globe, and help one another achieve our common goal, which is to learn how to creatively tell the stories of our lives. I also have no intention selling digital product on a large scale here, and because of this, I don't feel any competition from designers or shoppes who DO sell product. In fact, I welcome their designs, because I want to use them, too! So in light of these facts, here are the rules, effective immediately. Most of these are an "on your honor, respect us and we respect you" kind of basis, ok? If you are a designer or owner of a digital store, please do not post new threads about the products you sell. This is not a place for free advertising, but a place to share and learn. You can, however, post in the gallery (see #3), and work through your CT to help people find specific product they're looking for (see #2). If you are a CT member, and you're super excited about something in your designer's shoppe, *feel free to occasionally* post about it. As I mentioned above, we love being enabled. If someone posts requesting a specific type of product and you know your designer's stuff fits the bill, feel free to post. However, if your posts become 'all about ads' and not about contributing to the community, you'll be warned and then banned. We love enablement, and we love to hear about specific products you're excited about, but nobody loves advertising spam. I think we can tell the difference. If you are an owner or a CT member, and would like to post your creations in the General Gallery, that's awesome! Please do NOT post product previews, though - these must be projects that you have created. You may also include a direct link to the product itself (NOT to the home page of your web site or store), but PLEASE do not include any 'advertising language', by which I mean things like "On sale now!" "For a limited time!" "10% off today only!" "I sell these great templates at xyz site" and so forth. Link us up to the product, and let your design speak for itself. To prevent "upload floods", there will be a limit of 5 uploads in any 24 hour period from any one person. We love ya. But it's hard to leave love on LO #10 in a row. Addendum #1: As of right now, posting about freebies (on sites and on blogs) is OK with limits (i.e. the link must actually take you directly to the place where you can preview and download the file) and will also follow the same spirit as #2 above. Addendum #2*: You may link to your personal blog in your forum signature, but links to any other site are not allowed in your forum signature. Violators of the rules will be warned once by email (and have their posts removed), and then banned. Sounds harsh, but there it is. We don't want to see our community abused. We don't want the members of our community to have advertising forced upon them while they come here to learn. So we'll have a great time together if we can agree to this. We will* consider starting a daily thread or a separate advertising forum if it gets to that point, ok? Feel free to send me an email with your comments/requests/feedback in this area. We don't want to be unwelcoming, and we love product! Thank you so much for joining our community here! JessicaSprague.com is a wonderful and welcoming community, and we want to keep it that way - a place of warmth and trust and integrity. Thank you!

Rules

Hi!

We've reached a point in our growth as a community where it's time to lay down some rules.

But before the rules, an explanation:
I am an enabler.

I love being enabled. I love sharing the goodness of all the wonderful sites out there, and the gorgeous product that we can all use to create our pages. That's something I don't want to lose. I also don't want to police things. But if rules are set and agreed to by the community, we can all develop a place where we can enjoy our hobby in freedom, make friends across the globe, and help one another achieve our common goal, which is to learn how to creatively tell the stories of our lives.

I also have no intention selling digital product on a large scale here, and because of this, I don't feel any competition from designers or shoppes who DO sell product. In fact, I welcome their designs, because I want to use them, too!

So in light of these facts, here are the rules, effective immediately. Most of these are an "on your honor, respect us and we respect you" kind of basis, ok?

If you are a designer or owner of a digital store, please do not post new threads about the products you sell. This is not a place for free advertising, but a place to share and learn. You can, however, post in the gallery (see #3), and work through your CT to help people find specific product they're looking for (see #2).

If you are a CT member, and you're super excited about something in your designer's shoppe, feel free to *occasionally* post about it. As I mentioned above, we love being enabled. If someone posts requesting a specific type of product and you know your designer's stuff fits the bill, feel free to post. However, if your posts become 'all about ads' and not about contributing to the community, you'll be warned and then banned. We love enablement, and we love to hear about specific products you're excited about, but nobody loves advertising spam. I think we can tell the difference.

If you are an owner or a CT member, and would like to post your creations in the General Gallery, that's awesome! Please do NOT post product previews, though - these must be projects that you have created. You may also include a direct link to the product itself (NOT to the home page of your web site or store), but PLEASE do not include any 'advertising language', by which I mean things like "On sale now!" "For a limited time!" "10% off today only!" "I sell these great templates at xyz site" and so forth. Link us up to the product, and let your design speak for itself.

To prevent "upload floods", there will be a limit of 5 uploads in any 24 hour period from any one person. We love ya. But it's hard to leave love on LO #10 in a row.

Addendum #1: As of right now, posting about freebies (on sites and on blogs) is OK with limits (i.e. the link must actually take you directly to the place where you can preview and download the file) and will also follow the same spirit as #2 above.

Addendum #2: You may link to your personal blog in your forum signature, but links to any other site are not allowed in your forum signature.

Violators of the rules will be warned once by email (and have their posts removed), and then banned. Sounds harsh, but there it is. We don't want to see our community abused. We don't want the members of our community to have advertising forced upon them while they come here to learn. So we'll have a great time together if we can agree to this.

We will consider starting a daily thread or a separate advertising forum if it gets to that point, ok? Feel free to send me an email with your comments/requests/feedback in this area. We don't want to be unwelcoming, and we love product!

Thank you so much for joining our community here! JessicaSprague.com is a wonderful and welcoming community, and we want to keep it that way - a place of warmth and trust and integrity. Thank you!

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