[admin]

No linking, referencing or quoting from competing Cal scout and rivals posts, stories or tweets are allowed. This has been repeated often enough that we shouldn't continue to see violations.

[TrackLife]

Is that why the "Tosh on DLS campus" thread was deleted???

[califasbear]

Originally Posted by admin

No linking, referencing or quoting from competing Cal scout and rivals posts, stories or tweets are allowed. This has been repeated often enough that we shouldn't continue to see violations.

Is it only Scout and Rivals that are taboo? Everyone else fair game? Just asking an honest question.

[davetdds]

But it is ok for trolls to come on here and attack us and our school personally???

[califasbear]

Originally Posted by davetdds

But it is ok for trolls to come on here and attack us and our school personally???

Seriously, they let that keithprice dude hang around way too long. GTFO.

[Looperbear]

Originally Posted by davetdds

But it is ok for trolls to come on here and attack us and our school personally???

Yep, come on the board, trash our recruiting on our board for recruits and our families to read but don't link to twitter. Questionable policy.

[BearyWhite]

Originally Posted by admin

No linking, referencing or quoting from competing Cal scout and rivals posts, stories or tweets are allowed. This has been repeated often enough that we shouldn't continue to see violations.

Tweets are solely on Twitter. It's not a problem to quote from Twitter, right?

I understand why people wouldn't be able to quote from paid content sources, because the mods would be concerned about some sort of copyright violation dustup. I don't understand not being able to quote or link to stories on public areas of competitor sites though. Seems a little thin-skinned, and sort of backwards. Look at political blogs -- they all have links to their favorite counterparts, and quote each other liberally, because it boosts everyone's traffic and google rankings to discuss what each other is saying. Hoping to grow traffic by keeping regular users from knowing that the competition exists is a losing strategy, IMHO.

[XTasy]

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[CannonBlast]

Originally Posted by BearyWhite

Tweets are solely on Twitter. It's not a problem to quote from Twitter, right?

I understand why people wouldn't be able to quote from paid content sources, because the mods would be concerned about some sort of copyright violation dustup. I don't understand not being able to quote or link to stories on public areas of competitor sites though. Seems a little thin-skinned, and sort of backwards. Look at political blogs -- they all have links to their favorite counterparts, and quote each other liberally, because it boosts everyone's traffic and google rankings to discuss what each other is saying. Hoping to grow traffic by keeping regular users from knowing that the competition exists is a losing strategy, IMHO.

This.

[dupdadee]

As I recall, linking non-premium articles from Rivals and Scouts were okay...back in the day.

But the competition has gotten fierce recently after Gorcey took over BT. (Scout sucks hard, so nobody cares about that site.)


BI is obviously running a business, and they get to pick the rules.




No big deal for me....

[admin]

Originally Posted by davetdds

But it is ok for trolls to come on here and attack us and our school personally???

No, it's not. And if you see it, report it. The board's way too busy to monitor every thread.

[admin]

Originally Posted by BearyWhite

Tweets are solely on Twitter. It's not a problem to quote from Twitter, right?

I understand why people wouldn't be able to quote from paid content sources, because the mods would be concerned about some sort of copyright violation dustup. I don't understand not being able to quote or link to stories on public areas of competitor sites though. Seems a little thin-skinned, and sort of backwards. Look at political blogs -- they all have links to their favorite counterparts, and quote each other liberally, because it boosts everyone's traffic and google rankings to discuss what each other is saying. Hoping to grow traffic by keeping regular users from knowing that the competition exists is a losing strategy, IMHO.

Again, linking tweets from those two sites is not acceptable. It's not about copyrite. It's about not being a forum for advertising for the competition.

You don't have to agree with the rules but you do have to follow the rules and that includes not linking posts, tweets or stories from Cal rivals or scout. If it's national or any site or blog besides our direct competition, that's fine.