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Rules on posting links
on: September 07, 2015, 06:13:30 PM
I often see links posted that get removed and others that get posted and stay up. My question is when is it ok to post up a link? Is it referencing a deal? Non affiliation? Only post up already known sites? I just want to understand. I don't post links because I'm not sure when they are acceptable. Thanks :salute:
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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #1 on: September 07, 2015, 06:24:30 PM
If you own the site that offers some service or is a shop and post a link to it wittout making prior arangements with the staff, it will be removed and you will be asked to contact Grant.

Also no links to YOUR Kickstarter or ebay auctions. (we sometimes turn a blind eye if they are posted by well known members who have helped the site previously and/or donated to the operational funds)

Everything else you're free to post. :hatsoff:

Does that clear things up or do you have any more questions? :D


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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #2 on: September 07, 2015, 06:47:55 PM
That does help. Thanks :tu:
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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #3 on: September 07, 2015, 06:49:45 PM
...and no links to a multitool related site that can never be mentioned.....   :salute:

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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #4 on: September 07, 2015, 06:54:06 PM
...and no links to a multitool related site that can never be mentioned.....   :salute:

 :D

 :twak:  By simply implying its existence, you are hereby banned......  :P
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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #5 on: September 07, 2015, 06:56:54 PM
It was about time I got banned.... Half my posts are lady related...... 

I had a good ru.... :assimilate:
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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #6 on: September 07, 2015, 07:13:11 PM
...and no links to a multitool related site that can never be mentioned.....   :salute:

 :D

 :twak:  By simply implying its existence, you are hereby banned...... 
:shrug: I don't get it but maybe that's a good thing :think:
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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #7 on: September 07, 2015, 07:16:35 PM
...and no links to a multitool related site that can never be mentioned.....   :salute:

 :D

 :twak:  By simply implying its existence, you are hereby banned......  :P



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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #8 on: September 07, 2015, 07:30:12 PM
...and no links to a multitool related site that can never be mentioned.....   :salute:

 :D

 :twak:  By simply implying its existence, you are hereby banned...... 
:shrug: I don't get it but maybe that's a good thing :think:

At the early days of MTO, a member decided to copy the site, took the information from all over MTO and made a website with a very similar name, our name, with just a - added. ::)  Def affectionately calls him the Hyphenator. >:D

It's pretty much dead now, no updates for years, but still exists and sometimes causes confusion to people who don't know the story behind it.


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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #9 on: September 07, 2015, 07:33:28 PM
...and no links to a multitool related site that can never be mentioned.....   :salute:

 :D

 :twak:  By simply implying its existence, you are hereby banned...... 
:shrug: I don't get it but maybe that's a good thing :think:

At the early days of MTO, a member decided to copy the site, took the information from all over MTO and made a website with a very similar name, our name, with just a - added. ::)  Def affectionately calls him the Hyphenator. >:D

It's pretty much dead now, no updates for years, but still exists and sometimes causes confusion to people who don't know the story behind it.
O yes. I remember now from reading grants mto history thread. Sucks to be the other guy, but that's what happens when you don't be authentic.
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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #10 on: September 07, 2015, 07:36:17 PM
Here's what Def had to say about it in the "History of MTO" thread:

http://forum.multitool.or....msg580644.html#msg580644

...As we started to get popular and word started to get around, other sites started to pop up trying to do what we did.  Most didn’t last, but one prominent member in the early days who had equal sized ego and shoulder chip contacted me once to tell me he had registered the domain multi-tool.org and that he was starting his own multitool website and insisting that he wasn’t trying to copy us.  I’m not sure how registering  a derivative of our name and doing what we were doing largely with information taken from our site and members was not copying us was supposed to be a legitimate endeavour but I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt and play nicely- I even offered to buy him out and make him a moderator here, but he was insistent on doing his own thing.  Unfortunately things went south and he eventually had to be banned after deciding I was the Anti Christ and abusing Bob and I in a series of private messages that I wasn’t included in.  I'd even allowed him to promote his “not a copycat” site here even though he’d never linked back to us on his site, which in my mind would have only been polite.  To this day it still irks me whenever I see folks posting links to multi-tool.org, especially when they are referring to us and just misspelled it.  I’m sure that had nothing to do with his decision to register the domain that he did.   ::)  I believe he’s still occasionally active on BF, and he still updates his site from time to time.  I do wish him the best, even though I know he’ll never really go anywhere with it- Multitool.org’s biggest strength has always been the community, and as Dave Bowen found out earlier, a one man multitool site just doesn’t can’t compete.
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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #11 on: September 07, 2015, 07:37:21 PM
a link to the site would help...




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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #12 on: September 07, 2015, 07:47:19 PM
a link to the site would help...




 :whistle:

Well I did and didn't post it. :P

I used a quote of Def's post which includes the link to the site. :whistle:

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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #13 on: September 07, 2015, 07:53:35 PM
Wow, I didn't know that either.

Well. Now I've got a question :D From link to link, I went to the MTO story post, then the link to the very first thread and post on MTO, provided by Grant in that message.


http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,2.0.html 


Since the first message and thread were started on 29th May ...... why do we celebrate MTO's anniversary in July? :think:

Should I have kept reading further? :D






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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #14 on: September 07, 2015, 07:59:40 PM
She knows too much   :ahhh :ahhh :ahhh :ahhh :ahhh
Kelly: "Daddy, what makes men cheat on women?
Al : "Women!"

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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #15 on: September 07, 2015, 08:00:47 PM
It's because Grant's always late, so this give him a couple of months to catch up  :P :D


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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #16 on: September 07, 2015, 08:15:49 PM
She knows too much   :ahhh :ahhh :ahhh :ahhh :ahhh

I should keep digging, maybe I'll find certain pics...  :pok:


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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #17 on: September 07, 2015, 08:21:24 PM
Kelly: "Daddy, what makes men cheat on women?
Al : "Women!"

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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #18 on: September 07, 2015, 08:25:28 PM
Oh, I thought you had shorter hair :think:


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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #19 on: September 07, 2015, 08:29:13 PM
size isn't everything... 
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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #20 on: September 07, 2015, 08:35:47 PM
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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #21 on: September 07, 2015, 08:37:15 PM
size isn't everything...

But it does help  :rofl:


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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #22 on: September 07, 2015, 08:38:47 PM


A person with lots of experience/research ....
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Reply #23 on: September 07, 2015, 08:39:55 PM
 :facepalm:

I bet the people who're reading the topic right now will regret having started by the time they reach the end.. :ahhh


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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #24 on: September 07, 2015, 08:42:18 PM
(Image removed from quote.)

A person with lots of experience/research ....

She doesn't look happy. I'd say digestive issues. Probably best to give it an hour after shes been before you follow her in ....


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Reply #25 on: September 07, 2015, 08:43:37 PM
 :rofl: :rofl:


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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #26 on: September 07, 2015, 08:44:00 PM
...I am banned anyway... 

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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #27 on: September 07, 2015, 08:46:10 PM



(NNR in the picture, by the way)
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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #28 on: September 07, 2015, 08:48:25 PM
That's not my pendant, don't lie to them :D


TG the OP got his answer in the first post  :facepalm:
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Re: Rules on posting links
Reply #29 on: September 07, 2015, 08:48:31 PM
:facepalm:

I bet the people who're reading the topic right now will regret having started by the time they reach the end.. :ahhh
Very probable, but if they've been around for awhile they should know how this works by now :twak:
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