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Master Knightfall · Jan 14, 2008, 05:57 PM // 17:57

I notice at the top of the forum pages "advertisements" of places to BUY GW GOLD!! Why is this allowed here? It's a violation of the GW EULA.

Coridan · Jan 14, 2008, 05:59 PM // 17:59

guru has to pay for its services some how... i don't think it hurts anything

Alexandra-Sweet · Jan 14, 2008, 06:09 PM // 18:09

I don't think the EULA says anything about fansites and their advertisements.

Anyway, Guru needs these advertisements to keep this site running.

Mordakai · Jan 14, 2008, 06:12 PM // 18:12

Hmm, this is new isn't it?

I don't remember seeing "Buy Gold" on GURU before, and respected them for that.

Tatile · Jan 14, 2008, 06:13 PM // 18:13

I think it's also due to the fact that the adverts may be outsourced. For example, Guru has a contract with an advertsing provider, they pay Guru money to put adverts on the Guru site/forums that they have, in turn, been paid to advertise on the internet. The advertising provider probably doesn't care about the content as long as it doesn't break certain specific contract parts (eg pornographic content is no-no).

I'm just guessing at this, of course.

Lensor · Jan 14, 2008, 06:14 PM // 18:14

Gold ads are prohibited for any site wanting to wear the official "elite fansite" tag (for obvious reasons). Which is why atm there are no ads. I guess the admins have disabled them while trying to sort out how the gold ads got through, and remove them from rotation.

Darkobra · Jan 14, 2008, 06:15 PM // 18:15

They've been up for a while. If I remember right, they said something about them not having control over their adverts. Either that, or it was another site I pulled up about it. Hard to keep track now.

Longasc · Jan 14, 2008, 06:16 PM // 18:16

This practice is common, which does not make it better.

As Tatile explained, Guru just says "It is not us, it is our provider! But we will tell them to remove this particular ad." So you can stay an Elite Fansite - you do not have gold ads, it is all the evil ad content provider, mostly google ads.

Requesting to remove the add in question takes some time, if it happens at all, which is also not in Guru's responsibility, as it is up to the ad provider to do this or not. They can just tell them.

So you can be totally against gold-selling ads and still have them.

The alternative is not to cooperate like this, but money is needed and in the end always wins over moral values. :>

Trub · Jan 14, 2008, 06:17 PM // 18:17

Hey Inde!!
The 117 didn't get a pity party on guru..so they gonna drag this forum down with them!!
Grow up .....please.
Wait for your ticket responses.
Guru has nothing to do with the support team..><

Skyy High · Jan 14, 2008, 06:20 PM // 18:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Expectations of an official Guild Wars site

The Expectations

All fansites in the Guild Wars Community Fansite Program member site must agree to the following:

To meet and uphold high standards for quality for content and design
To abide by the legal requirements stated in the Terms of Use
To display the appropriate copyright, logo, and legal information and to attribute content and news post from the official site
To assure that site content reflects positively upon the company and the game
To attribute news from the official site clearly so that there is no confusion between official news and fansite news
To disallow and remove links or promotion of adult (pornographic) sites, sites that provide or support software hacking or piracy, sites that support, advertise or offer in-game items for real currency, and sites that encourage game cheating
To moderate forums and live chat rooms to enforce reasonable behavior standards
To assure that all staff members behave appropriately and to make staffing decisions that assure that the entire site staff is fully in support of the program, the site, and most importantly, the community
To abide by the game's User Agreement and Rules of Conduct

*coughcough*

[edit] for holy crap I didn't mean to copy all of that, and I'm glad they removed the link.

garethporlest18 · Jan 14, 2008, 06:22 PM // 18:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trub

Hey Inde!!
The 117 didn't get a pity party on guru..so they gonna drag this forum down with them!!
Grow up .....please.
Wait for your ticket responses.
Guru has nothing to do with the support team..><

Um the OP is just a troll and has nothing to do with the 117 if you check his post in their thread.

Uber Mass · Jan 14, 2008, 06:26 PM // 18:26

ah... another i dont agree with Anet im gonna cry about everything topic

Tatile · Jan 14, 2008, 06:33 PM // 18:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Longasc

...google ads...

The bane of fans and fansites the internet over. If this is where Guru are getting their adverts from, it's not uncommon for 'unsavory' adverts to slip through. I beleive it happened around the release of the Third Star Wars movie, a web-comic artist (and avid Star Wars fan) got some complaints from readers that there was a Google advert for illegal copies of the movie just beneath his comic (the Google advert spot). He removed the advert from his site for a while, as he was in discussion with Google about the advert.

Google provides adverts based on the content of the pages, so words such as 'gold', 'buying' and 'selling' will probably flag these gold selling adverts up to put on the site.

However, I'm sure a forum mod will have more to say on this, and more accuratly as well.

Uber Mass · Jan 14, 2008, 06:35 PM // 18:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tatile

The bane of fans and fansites the internet over. If this is where Guru are getting their adverts from, it's not uncommon for 'unsavory' adverts to slip through. I beleive it happened around the release of the Third Star Wars movie, a web-comic artist (and avid Star Wars fan) got some complaints from readers that there was a Google advert for illegal copies of the movie just beneath his comic (the Google advert spot). He removed the advert from his site for a while, as he was in discussion with Google about the advert.

Google provides adverts based on the content of the pages, so words such as 'gold', 'buying' and 'selling' will probably flag these gold selling adverts up to put on the site.

However, I'm sure a forum mod will have more to say on this, and more accuratly as well.

My guildforum has also goldadds... so its prolly based on the content yes

Mordakai · Jan 14, 2008, 06:36 PM // 18:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Uber Mass

ah... another i dont agree with Anet im gonna cry about everything topic

ehh, what?

This has NOTHING to do with Anet. It's Guru's own policies that are the problem...

if Guru and Inde have no problem buying gold, then all's fair.

Billiard · Jan 14, 2008, 06:37 PM // 18:37

We do our best to make sure our provider doesn't put up unacceptable ads, but as mentioned sometimes it takes time to correct things. To the best of my knowledge this is an issue any fansite using ads faces, which is why we tried other means of generating revenue for a long time.

Anyway, this has been discussed pretty extensively here and other places, so closing this thread.