Official Posting Rules at Wealthy Affiliate

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Hey Everyone,

I just want to offer people a clear and concise "posting" rule list here at WA. Obviously, we are a "spam free" community, so any form of spam or blatant promotions are not allowed within Wealthy Affiliate. If your intended purpose of being here and to engage is solely based on your underlying promotions, please refrain from doing this.

The reason we are firm on our stance on self promotion here at Wealthy Affiliate is we are and want to continue to be a safe haven for people. One that is free of all promotions and focuses on people helping each other! :)

If you want to offer help or training or tell a story, do so within the mediums provided here (create training, create a blog post, engage within comments or chat with others).

Here are the rules for spam within WA. If you go against any of these, you may lose all posting privileges within WA and depending on or may be completely removed from WA without the ability to ever join again (yes, we do take this stuff seriously).

  1. No unsolicited messages promoting products, services, or outside communication to be sent through private messaging. This will lead to immediate removal of your ability to post anywhere within WA.
  2. No copied content allowed to be posted here at Wealthy Affiliate. This content will be immediately removed and you will lose posting privileges.
  3. Do not copy content from WA and post it somewhere else on the Internet. This includes copying your own blog content and putting it on your website.
  4. No promotions with comments or chat. Although these may seem like subtle ways to promote, if you are caught doing this, you will likely lose privileges. If a link is posted out of an act to help someone, not sell something, that is OK.
  5. No training should be focused around a promotion of a product or service or give half information. If it does, then it will be immediately removed from the training at WA and you may lose all privileges to post training in the future.
  6. No blog posts that are created for the pure purpose of promoting a product. This does include product reviews. Rants are OK.
  7. No adding affiliate links to any blog, training, discussion or private message. We do not allow any form of affiliate links here within your posts, reserve those links for your website.
  8. Do not post anything that is "niche" content. If you have a dieting website or a website that offers people recipes, these types of posts should be reserved for your own website and not within Wealthy Affiliate.
  9. No incomplete content. Do not post content where your readers are required to go to an external website to "read more" or "watch". All the content must be self-contained within the post itself.
  10. No soliciting phone numbers. Do not share your phone number, or asking for others phone numbers.
  11. Asking for personal contact information. Do not ask for personal details, such as email addresses, addresses, or first and last name.
  12. Any inappropriate/adult content. This includes adult content, website URL's or related images.
  13. Click bait headlines. Do not use incorrect or misleading headlines within your discussions or blog posts.
  14. No faith or religion based posts. We all have different beliefs and values, please do not use Wealthy Affiliate as a medium to discuss faith or religion. To avoid any form of conflict, we are a religion neutral platform.
  15. No signatures. Do not conlcude your posts with your website URL, image, etc. Do know that all of your posts will include your name and a link to your profile here at WA where you will be able to include your websites within the "websites" section on your profile.
  16. No politically driven posts. Politics are for Facebook, Twitter and other mediums. These discussions never end well and always end up in flame wars. Please avoid them.
  17. Promoting ANY product whatsoever. Again, we don't allow any promotions here within the community. These are reserved for website.
  18. No charity or GoFundMe posts. We do not allow any form of fundraising or charity including that campaigning for members here within WA. Please keep all fundraising campaigns external of WA.
  19. No "click bait" titles. The title of your post must represent the content you write. Do not create titles that are confusing and that have the purpose of attracting the most clicks as possible.
  20. No AI created content. While AI Assisted content is fine (content that you make your own), you cannot copy and paste "out of the box" GPT, Bard, Claude or other AI content here into blog posts.

We are all here with the ultimate goal of success, if you try some "sneaky sneak" spam attempts within WA, you will be caught and you may be in for an "account explosion"! We are flexible on every other aspect of WA other than spam. No exceptions. Just don't do it!

We truly are a community of help and if you see any form of spam going on, please do let us know and we will handle accordingly. :)

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#3: Do not copy content from WA and post it somewhere else on the Internet. This includes copying your own blog content and putting it on your website.

With the use of AI, if I'm not copying, but rewriting my own content and/or adding more to this, is this allowed (I'm only asking in regards to my own blog content, not anyone else's)?

Yes like anything else if you wanted to post a your WA blog on your website it will need to be re-written so it is not a copy. Much like anything else.

Yeah, that is fine Andy.

Thanks!

I appreciate it. That's what I thought, but I just wanted to double check.

No probs wishing you well

Andre

Yup, totally okay, Andy :)

With rule #3 - for clarity purposes - does this include a "screenshot" of the 'content' or video image or what have you linked to said content? I'm thinking back to a training where you screen captured a video training and shared the direct link to it on your business page.

That is completely fine Jeremy, not an issue at all. :)

Good morning Kyle,

I must admit I hadn't seen your post until now. I replied to Diane's post.

I'm really pleased to see that you have rule number 20 – no AI-created content! I think it's important that we keep on topic in the platform, as that's one of the many things that makes the platform so great! I always feel it's good to keep on topic with Internet marketing and affiliate marketing topics etc. I know it's very easy to digress into other topics without meaning to; I've been there!

By talking about our genuine experiences here, whether it's wins, struggles or a progress report, etc, we can all help and learn so much from others. I know some posts are a bit off-topic, but personally, I think it's good to stick to topics that relate to the platform. There are some posts that are more suitable for Facebook!

It does amaze me when members say, "Great post" when it's just a load of AI drivel!

End of rant!

Have a fantastic Sunday.

Roy

Thanks Roy, that was the latest addition. We don't want people going to GPT and posting directly here. Sure they can use AI as an assistance to help, and they can train it to be higher quality...but all content must be polished, human edited and flowing content. It is very obvious when it is not. ;)

Thank you, Kyle!

It appears that your update to the posting rules has worked, Kyle, which is great! It's nice to scroll down the top 10 blog posts and see some interesting and relevant posts that are related to an online business!

No one in their right mind should want to read an unedited ChatGPT post! It's so much better when we can read about genuine experiences related to building an online business, etc!

Thank you for making and keeping the platform so genuine!

Have a fantastic Friday.

Roy

I am aware of the rule, but I saw one talking about affiliate links (referral links).
Does it mean it can't be linked onto like site content where you write blogs, But affiliate links can be only used like what Kyle wrote a simple blog for to use like using social media, and others to have attractive people come into WA?

Kyle, thanks for this post. I have noticed lately people posting on wa that really should be in their own niche sites or political or religious views that have no place here. Posts should be limited to info that can help members be more successful in their affiliate marketing businesses.

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