Thread: Got Ethics?
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Old 08-28-2001, 01:21 PM  
Gemini
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Good point Amp... several tgp owners mentioned it last night and said they would prefer to move over to accepting 'AWG' (for lack of another acronym) member submissions only. I'm sure they would accept the member button as well.... and while the surfer may have been duped into a non member page, if the button is there then they can more easily report the offending member for selective beheadment at the hun's leisure since he has the largest axe.

This isn't to be some huge rules committee at all. It should Enforce existing rules from the sponsors... after all they are just about carbon copies of one another. Such things as NO non adult freehosts, spamming etc etc...

Then we get to what needs added in with locking buttons, popup craziness.. limit that to one popup with NO followups, even delayed... activeX, or auto anything is out...

And another tidbit we need to include are such things as these auto-submitter programs... If a guy selling such things wants to join, then he obeys the rules. This means when the hun or any other tgp owner requests to be removed from their lists, they WILL comply, not next chance they get but immediately. I recently had the comment put to me in a thread, that the script writer had added the hun but did not have it auto selected. Gee, so if I set out our dog on the porch with no chain, am I not still responsible with whatever happens from my own lack of responsibility?

Not that it would be a rule or anything but the program sites that become members should be given EVERY chance to be your first source of scripts etc you need. Keeping it in the family. I'm sure most would cut discounts knowing they have a secure customer base that will not be mis-using such things they make.

But we do need to settle on some sort of name as one of the first orders of business. A place to conduct the business is being looked after etc.

Seperate forums would enhance this for putting names up for reviews, the basic sponsor rules area (just a rehash of the existing, any sponsors joining will not be making new ones except that they use members only etc) Another for the basics that we want to adhere to. That sort of thing. Lens is going to start charging us rent before long here. lol

And perhaps we can get some sort of dbase set up to be able to view the webmasters going for this as well as contact info etc. If we can put it behind a secure area to prevent email grabbing etc.

As far as a whole year free on dues? Get real. The donations would never cover the costs of a good PR firm etc. We could maybe get a server and things like that. But here we are back to crying over a few bucks. I'd sooner think, keep it free until Jan 1, 02 and then we should be in some sort of order to carry on with the PR. Any webmaster that expects the sponsors to shell out tons of cash versus the total membership putting up a small yearly fee such as 10 or even 20 bucks...

I have been in loose contact with some sponsors, has anyone else spoken to any yet? We're on a roll so lets get the momentum with us and talk to others. Hopefully we will have some more news soon.
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