Forum: Community Center


Subject: Changes to offsite linking rules - PLEASE READ

KristiS opened this issue on Sep 15, 2016 ยท 47 posts


KristiS posted Thu, 15 September 2016 at 3:47 PM

Hi Everyone I am pleased to let you all know that we have heard you, and we realize it was a mistake to take away the links to Freebies and other sites. We apologize for the upset this has caused you all.

Part of our previous reasoning was to protect you from accidentally opening harmful files or being led to sites that require you to sign up for access, causing potential harm there as well. The other part was in hopes more people would upload their art here and others would come here to view it. Instead, it drove members away.

We hope you all start posting and sharing more. We look forward to seeing your art and more activity around the Community.

This is a Community and I would like it to be as strong and supportive as it can possibly be.

Here is what is allowed:

*Links to tutorials on Youtube and tutorials on other sites in the forums.

*Sharing things going on in the 3D world in our Industry News forum. This consists of software releases, contests, software that went on sale, etc.

*Links in your signature that go to your personal site as long as the site DOES NOT have a Marketplace.

*Links from your Freestuff products as long as they DO NOT go toa competitive Marketplace. (Daz, CGTrader, etc.)

*If someone wants to know where to find a certain product we do not have and you know where to find it, you may provide a link to it. However, if we do sell it here or the link goes to something else other than the product, it will be deleted.

Here is what IS NOT allowed:

*Any links that take you to a competing Marketplace (Daz,CGTrader, etc.)

*Anything that appears to be an advertisement

*Anything that may have the potential to harm someone's system

*Any links that take you to anything that would need a content advisory on our site

Thank you all very much and if you have any questions, please let me know.

As always, I am here and listening.


Kristi

Community Relations Specialist

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