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It has come to our attention some members have been abusing the PM system to advertise and push their business onto our members. This is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated as it violates the rules outlined by UGbodybuilding.
If anyone here has a business, and they want to offer products or services, then there is an entire sub-forum available where they may freely do so publicly. Refusal to comply with this will result in an immediate ban. There are absolutely no exceptions to this, immediate action will be taken with no warnings issued.
For members wondering why this rule is so important, then ask yourself, why would someone only use the PM system to push their business when we have an entire sub forum they could to sell their products or services. The answer is usually either scamming, selling items not permitted in promote your products sub-forum, selling dangerous low quality products that could get you hurt, or maybe even something worse. Would you trust someone trying to sell you something in a dark back alley, as opposed to someone with a well lit store front?
Rule #5, like many of the other rules, is here for the protection of the ENTIRE community. We have seen people get scammed countless times by ignoring the importance of this rule, continuing to do business with a questionable individual, and instead they report it to us after the fact when it is too late for us to protect anyone.
To be clear, individual private and agreed upon sales is different than trying to solicit or push product as a "business". If you're unsure of what the difference is then err on the side of caution and contact moderators with screenshots of the entirety of the PM conversation. We will evaluate and take action if it is clearly business advertisement/solicitation.
While UGbodybuilding, nor its staff, are not liable for any business a person chooses to engage in. However we do our best to keep the community safe.
If you have evidence that this is occuring, please contact moderators with full screenshots of the entire PM conversation. The evidence must be clear, and fairly direct. The reason is that unlike rule #1 where staff can ban without approvals, for rule #5 staff does have to justify it and take it back for review with admin.
If anyone here has a business, and they want to offer products or services, then there is an entire sub-forum available where they may freely do so publicly. Refusal to comply with this will result in an immediate ban. There are absolutely no exceptions to this, immediate action will be taken with no warnings issued.
For members wondering why this rule is so important, then ask yourself, why would someone only use the PM system to push their business when we have an entire sub forum they could to sell their products or services. The answer is usually either scamming, selling items not permitted in promote your products sub-forum, selling dangerous low quality products that could get you hurt, or maybe even something worse. Would you trust someone trying to sell you something in a dark back alley, as opposed to someone with a well lit store front?
Rule #5, like many of the other rules, is here for the protection of the ENTIRE community. We have seen people get scammed countless times by ignoring the importance of this rule, continuing to do business with a questionable individual, and instead they report it to us after the fact when it is too late for us to protect anyone.
To be clear, individual private and agreed upon sales is different than trying to solicit or push product as a "business". If you're unsure of what the difference is then err on the side of caution and contact moderators with screenshots of the entirety of the PM conversation. We will evaluate and take action if it is clearly business advertisement/solicitation.
While UGbodybuilding, nor its staff, are not liable for any business a person chooses to engage in. However we do our best to keep the community safe.
If you have evidence that this is occuring, please contact moderators with full screenshots of the entire PM conversation. The evidence must be clear, and fairly direct. The reason is that unlike rule #1 where staff can ban without approvals, for rule #5 staff does have to justify it and take it back for review with admin.
- Staff may perform a pre-emptive ban for rule #5 at their discretion, if staff feels the evidence provided may justify the ban.
- Be aware that if evidence is not strong enough, then admin may choose to over ride the ban implemented by staff.
- If evidence is not strong enough then staff will inform you of this and not perform any pre-emptive ban.
- This is not to be dismissive. It is to avoid alerting the potential offender of rule #5, have them go quiet/dark, or have them deploy more subtle tactics that make things difficult to enforce.
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