Are advertisers allowed to have (banner) ads with "unlimited (http://www.rawrgv.com/images/unlimited.png)" offers?

I know it's not allowed in the offers section, or your signature. At least I was fairly certain it was not last time I checked.

I assume since they are paid ads, they naturally have a different set of guidelines?

curious...

I recall this discussion coming up before and the verdict was something along the lines that the unlimited rule only applies to offers posted on the forums (threads / stickys). Banner ads are controlled by iNET so the rule doesn't apply to them.

Kinda what I figured, could not quickly come up with an answer. So naturally I did what everybody else does. Start a new thread. :P

Banner ads are controlled by iNET so the rule doesn't apply to them.
That would be correct.

We've re-thought this policy and have decided that banner advertisers will need to follow forum policy.

Thanks for pointing this one out, the wheels are in motion to get this banner changed.

We've re-thought this policy and have decided that banner advertisers will need to follow forum policy.

Thanks for pointing this one out, the wheels are in motion to get this banner changed.

Oh snap! :gone:

Oh wow, i always figured it was the money :-) But guess there is a change.

We've re-thought this policy and have decided that banner advertisers will need to follow forum policy.

Thanks for pointing this one out, the wheels are in motion to get this banner changed.

That's nice to hear :agree:


Oh wow, i always figured it was the money :-) But guess there is a change.

That's what I thought, money allowed companies more freedom to place false advertising.

I am still trying to find those unlimited HD's... Everywhere I check nobody selling them :bawling: gotta be a secret place that sells them.

But it's good to see WHT going to stop it.

We've re-thought this policy and have decided that banner advertisers will need to follow forum policy.

Thanks for pointing this one out, the wheels are in motion to get this banner changed.

Consistency. I think that's what draws people here. If only that were the case at other forums.

This is one (of many) reasons that WHT is such a rock solid community. Very well organized and maintained by competent people. Other places are just a mess of garbage, spam and lies. :P

Seems other places are just out for the quantity of post, not the quality - basically looking for all that adsense revenue, and nothing else.

Seems other places are just out for the quantity of post, not the quality - basically looking for all that adsense revenue, and nothing else.

Sounds about right, I've been hit with infractions before. I appreciate the reasoning behind them, to keep out the riff raff. Keeping things fair, balanced and profitable for good ol' honest capitalism. :)

While I'm at it: more unlimited (http://www.rawrgv.com/images/anotherunl.jpg)

$2.49 is a hell of a deal for unlimited. :P

We've re-thought this policy and have decided that banner advertisers will need to follow forum policy..
Don't see why they wouldn't, but it's good to see that this has been changed!

It's good to see WHT promoting quality, none-overselling, none-misleading hosting; both in threads and in paid ads!!

Good work WHT ;)

Don't see why they wouldn't ...Because they aren't posts? We have rules (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/rules.php) that prohibit those type of ads in the advertising forums (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=29). Banners was an area that moderators agreed (some more reluctantly than others) we didn't need to be moderating. But after discussion with Sales at iNET, we feel that the WHT community deserves our support in the education of consumers when it comes to claims of unlimited space and bandwidth. A banner offering unlimited is contrary to all the warnings here posted about those offers. :wht: