The rules
Two of them for now, and a person checks every alert against them by hand. They are short because they are the whole of what we ask: what you promise, when you send it and what you earn from it are yours.
You publish first, we check after
Nothing waits for us. Your page is live the second you send the form, people can sign up on it, and you can put the link in your channel. Then somebody here opens it and reads it, because every alert is checked, without exception. Until it passes, the page says so, it stays out of our catalogue, search engines are told to skip it, and you cannot send the alert out.
What is not allowed
- One alert, one product. An alert says “this happened” about a single thing. A category, a search page, a list of ten deals or a whole shop is not one thing: there is no single moment to announce, and nobody can hold you to what they signed up for.
- Products and services only. The link has to go to something somebody can buy. News, articles, blog posts, giveaways and anything else that is not for sale: no. This is not a general purpose shortener, and the people who sign up agreed to hear about an offer.
- The title has to be the thing itself. What you write as the name of the offer has to be what is really at the other end of the link, and your sentence has to be about that same thing. This is the one that costs: people sign up on the strength of that name.
- No abuse and no filler. No insults, no threats, no sexual content, and nothing that is plainly spam or text typed to fill a box. Whatever you write here is read by people who have not chosen to be sold to yet.
There will be more, written here as the cases turn up. If what you want to publish is not covered by these two, send it in and the review will tell you.
What happens if you break them
One thing decides it, and it is not how bad the alert was. It is whether anybody had signed up yet.
- Nobody had signed up. We tell you what is wrong, or you delete it yourself from your account. Nothing was promised to anybody, so nothing is lost.
- People had signed up. The alert is called off and every one of them is told it is not coming. That cannot be undone: they have been written to and their sign-up is closed.
- Again, or plainly on purpose. The account goes with it, and the alerts under it.
None of that is automatic and none of it is a filter you can probe: a person reads what you wrote and opens your link. Publishing here costs nothing and waits for nobody, which is exactly why it is not worth trying it on.