this is a giveaway train, you will no longer be able to participate in my next giveaways after this time, you have been blocked by me
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He might not be wrong. I think there is a rule on this site about not being allowed to promote things you are associated with and Youtube is specifically mentioned as one of them. You can advertise your Youtube channel in giveaway descriptions, but I don't think you are supposed to create a thread to direct people to it.
I am not a support member and I am not 100% positive about this rule, so I guess we will just have to wait and see if support steps in and says something.
This is not personal against you, it is just because if it is allowed, everyone will start doing it and the discussions will become a cluttered mess of spam advertisement threads.
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@AllTracTurbo I am not forcing anyone to participate, you can look at the topics I have opened before, I have already built similar trains. I'm just trying to have fun with this situation and make people have fun too.
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I know you aren't forcing anyone to do anything, but I thought there was a rule about not being able to link to anything you are associated with because it is seen as advertising and the site doesn't allow advertising.
Maybe it is allowed because of the way you are using the videos as a way to distribute giveaways, but I feel like it is against the rules and support just has not noticed because people often distribute giveaways in a similar way. They don't use links to Youtube channels they are associated with though, they will link to videos of things like popular songs or memes.
Edit: I am not saying that you should stop, that is up to support. I am just trying to explain why the previous user was saying that they are confused as to why these threads have been allowed to stay open and not shut down as advertising. I believe in the past something like this would have been closed fairly quick, but maybe support just didn't notice or maybe they changed how they feel about linking your own Youtube account. I suspect that they just did not notice.
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I mean, i'm pretty sure he did it before recently, i still cant get if the Youtube account is ran by two people who both are active on this site and both are advertising a Youtube account or if its just one guy with two accounts trying to pass it as if he's not the same person, eitherway, im not really mad for this, it would be a hundred times better if the puzzle was all in only ONE video instead of having to click on three different videos, but idk ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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3 videos for each train, 3x the advertisment money ...
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@Oppenh4imer I really need your clicks, I get traffic that doesn't even cover the money for the games I give you, my goal is just to have fun. i don't earn millions and i don't have a holiday in Dubai
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It's at least being represented as two different people -- the other one mentioned 'the video owner' in his thread, implying that the YT channel is not his.
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@Oppenh4imer keep giving bundle games and polluting people's threads. I don't think you have another job :D
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This comes from a guy whose trains includes games from some "Random Key Bundle for 5$"...
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I couldn't figure out why I had blocked that guy. Now I remember.
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My thought is that it's allowed under this:
- User Projects
In this category you can show us projects you are working on. For example you could share a website you are developing, a YouTube channel you recently launched, or home renovations for your gaming / theater room. Projects do not need to be gaming related.
So he's sharing his YouTube channel, and there just happens to be a puzzle attached.
Maybe?
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Maybe. Still waiting for an answer to my ticket from the first batch of such threads a couple of months ago.
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But this is Puzzle / Events. The User Projects category is for what you said.
I don't think what he has done with these trains is inherently bad, but I think it breaks the guidelines pretty clearly. He's not pointing to some 2solve or jigidi or imgur image for you to solve. He's pointing you to several of his videos, and even if he won 0 bucks from all this, it's still advertisement from his part. Assuming it's a "he", if not my excuses.
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