Freebies "Gentle Reminder"

It's come to my attention that quite a few members need a reminder when it comes to the rules:

1 - No Referrals! PERIOD
- That includes posting links with referrals in them, PM-ing referrals to members, and requesting to be referred.
- That includes posting/soliciting referrals in your signature or custom user title.
- Members alert Moderators to new referral scams, promotions, and deals. We will know if your post is a referral, so please don't risk it!

2 - Reputations Points
- Trading reputation points for services/trades is not allowed. You can give other users rep points if you feel that the post has been helpful.
- To anyone who "requests" people to rep them, you will be warned for Reputation Point Trading. If it continues, the warnings will increase, and you may lose your ability to give & receive rep. points.
- This includes begging/asking/hinting for rep points (IE, Rep me, and I'll rep you back) either posted in your signature, custom user title, or in posts.
- Reputation points points for contests/games prizes or trading for value items are not allowed since it doesn't follow the "thank you" premise
- Use the Mod Alert Function to report people who are requesting/trading rep. points.

3 - Reposts
- The repost URL checker will only work if there is 1 URL in the original Post (OP). If there is more that one URL (which includes email address) the program will not work.
-As a reminder, any post made after 6 months from the date of a previous post is not a repost (this is only in the freebies forum).
-The Moderators have the right to merge "reposts" after the 6 months time frame if the "repost" is deemed intentional (IE posted by the same user a day after the 6 month cut off).
-Moderators also have the right to refuse to merge a "similar repost" if the original poster (OP) intentionally edited their post just so the "similar repost" can be merged into the OPs post.

4 - Lying and its Promotion
-The promotion of lying in order to qualify for a survey or offer that you cannot "honestly" qualify for is not allowed. It is considered illegal activity, and a violation of the rules.
- This includes posting information about a survey so that others can use the information to qualify.
- This includes answers to survey questions where the answers are a form of qualifying.

5 - Abusing Thumbs Down Votes
-Please do not intentionally "thumbs down" posts made from a certain member. You will be caught, and either lose your voting privileges, or banned.

6 - Political Discussions/Debates
- Please do not debate anything political in Freebies. The Podium was created for this purpose.
- Any posts where political discussions or rantings are made will be deleted and the poster will be warned. This includes and is not limited to PETA, religion, breastfeeding, etc. topics.
- We, Moderators, have been lenient on giving warnings about this problem in the past, but it has continued. So this is your final "Friendly Warning".

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