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Note: The responses in a forum survey conducted suggest that having a monthly recommendations thread is useless, so that thread will no longer exist.
Therefore, please DO NOT tag @yaoyueyi or reply to this post when promoting your novel.
The amount of shameless promotion/review swap threads are spamming the forums and clogging it up, preventing actual discussion from happening. To solve that issue, this thread will be pinned/created each month.
You may promote your novel in this thread & review swap as well.
HOWEVER
Each novel link may only be posted 1 time per month for shameless promoting. If it is done more than that, your posts will be deleted and warnings will be given. If warnings do not work and you continue to do so, your account will be temporarily suspended. (in accordance to how many offenses of spam) This excludes review swaps-- when you are trading reviews with other people, you may drop your link along with your request so that the swaps can go smoothly.
If you are requesting a review swap with multiple people at the same time, reply to all of them in ONE POST with your novel link If not, you will be given a warning and your posts will be deleted/reformatted
All threads containing promoting/review swaps that are not this thread WILL BE LOCKED. Do not spam/create/promote/review swap in any other threads than this one. This ensures that the forum will stay clean. If there are multiple offenses from one user, the will be given warnings/suspended as well.
If you are a reader requesting for specific recommendations that is okay, but whether or not your thread will be locked will be under my discretion. I generally determine if a thread is a genuine recommendation thread if the reader is asking for a specific kind of novel, and if the novel links dropped all fit the request. If not, it will be considered a shameless promo thread and locked. The age of the thread will also be taken into consideration (the older it is, the more posts there are, the higher chance of getting locked). In the end, it's all about intent.
Unique promotion/recommendation threads will be allowed if it's presented in the form of a game/other entertaining manner that is different than just dropping links.
For ever WPC held, one promotion thread may be created by another user. The moment the contest is over, however, the thread will get locked.
To clarify, it is okay to share your novel link on other threads if someone asks for it, or if the purpose is not for promotion/review swap. Therefore, if someone asks for original romances, and you happen to write an original romance, then you can drop your link in that thread. Or, if you're talking about a novel you're currently writing to drop writing advice, and someone is interested in reading your novel/asks for it, you can drop it as well. The only thing not allowed is dropping your links for review/shameless promo.
The whole point of this is anti-spam, so to reiterate and repeat myself again DO NOT SPAM THIS THREAD, OR ANY OTHER ONE. Your spam of novel links is equivalent to violating the forum rules of no spam.
Happy promoting! :tada:
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