Since we don't wish to seem arbitrary, here's a few top reasons we don't like cash links, referrer-codes and dodgy advertisers on Peachy:
- They are here for the money. At first that sounds hypocisy, we have ads as well, but we run this place and pay our server bills. We have worked to build up the forums and use hours every day to keep them up. Advertisers don't click our banners; on the contrary, they are draining possible income from Peachy. Would a Wal-mart let 7-Eleven to advertise on their store? Advertisers should support us by buying banners and make money at the same time.
- Advertisers don't use one identity and act like true social person. They register multiple accounts - which is not permitted - and never care to help someone with problems with their computer or browser. They just don't care us as real people.
- Most of them are spammers. Advertisers tend to start new threads without making sure they are reposts or answer to topics with the same galleries all the time. Why? Because time is money for them and they do not care to keep read rules & Peachy clean, just spam their referrer codes and galleries.
- Over-protective site owners tend to start flame wars. All of them only try to protect their own topics and hate people saying anything negative about their sites. They think their threads as neatly organized "blog posts" with news, that don't actually provide us any real new content - galleries or videos. If someone posts an old promo-pic or too many galleries, they bother us admins to keep "their topic" clean. What gives them special rights to claim a topic as their own? Sony owns their TV's - does that make them own every customer review-site topic discussing about it?
- Ads are kept on the ad-space - letting referrer codes / ads / promos inside the topics will kill our creditability. We have our side and top ads, but we never disguise them as topics / "news". If someone doesn't like a girl, it doesn't show up as top first topic on the first page. Everything is based on trust and no-one - not even me - has special rights to spam dodgy posts with false promises.