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Originally Posted by imjustshane
My intention wasn't to advertise, I linked to the story rather than copy and paste so that it was clear I wasn't editing the text in any way, it was as it was presented. Also I was under the impression you were always supposed to link to any story not paste it verbatim.
Either way to apease everyone I have removed the links and replaced them with the full text of the articles.
Shane, the part about copying a full story is in regard to copyright issues from that media source, etc. This is YOUR story/interview. Obviously that makes it very different than some poster on here copying the entire body of a story from the Los Angeles Times about poker or puppies or whatever.
If YOU approve of copying the text here then you do have rights to what your own organization said.
The main issue here is that there is Lock Poker advertising on the site where you linked to the story. Lock advertising has been REMOVED from this site (by your agreement). So under your agreement with 2+2 to not do anything promotional...it is kind inappropriate to link to the interview on a separate site where there is a banner advertisement.
"Hey, we pulled our banners from here...and agree to what 2+2 is saying about what we need to do on here..." followed by "Hey, if you want the information about our site that we promised we would provide, you have to go to this separate site...that also happens to include our banners."
Again, this is all my own personal opinion and I do not speak on behalf of 2+2. But I do believe that the direction I'm going with this is kind of a straight-forward one and hopefully you understand.
And it does appear to be a somewhat honest mistake as you explain it. I don't think you were necessarily trying to "angle" people just to get more Lock banner views over there. You just didn't think of the reprecussions of using that commercial site for your organization's statement.
If you guys actually want Chris writing on your behalf then that's up to you. But no, you should not be linking to articles from over there. When different posters do that then that's up to them. But when you do it then it is too promotiony. Hope that somewhat makes sense.
Ask Bobo Fett for further feedback about this. He may have a different angle or idea to all of this stuff that I'm not thinking of or perhaps will completely disagree with me. And his opinion is the one that actually counts...not mine.