I made an LFG tool for Apex Legends
It's an LFG tool, but I like to think of it more along the lines of "offline matchmaking". The general idea: you want to find people who play the game the way you do. Based on a handful of criteria,...
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@EleoThe difference is that bf4stats.com contains a public database of player stats whereas your "LFG tool" requires sign up.
So I can collect the same information that I was told I'm not allowed to collect, as long as I meet the requirement that people who haven't signed up can anonymously browse the information of the people who have? That's the reasoning here? So that even more people can see more of the information I'm supposedly not allowed to collect? I could have an update like that pushed up in hours.
Can someone tell me what the real, actual rules are? Or is it just based on whether or not tptb are having a good or bad day at the time? I wasn't told "sign up must be optional and not required" I was told "you cannot ask for email addresses" which are two very different things.
@EleoActually, I don't see how sign-up is different to the other reason given when the sign-up requires email. Sign-up is the act of joining, enlisting or enrolling/being enrolled into something.
me: here's a site I made, only requires email to sign up
community manager: you can't ask people their emails, URL redacted
me: wait but here's a site that also requires an email address to sign up, why did you not remove that one?
random guy: because that site doesn't require signup to use it, duh
me: oh, I get it, so I as long as sign up isn't required, I can ask users for their email addresses if they choose to sign up?
random guy: no
me:
As far as I know, and from what the CM has said to you, if you are asking for people to sign-up to your product using an email address then that it is not allowed on the forums. In addition, advertising is also not allowed on the forums.
In your opening post you said "You can sign up with as little as just your email address". I expect that this is what brought your post advertising a product which requires sign up via email to the attention of the CM.
The part of your latest post where you say "oh, I get it, so I as long as sign up isn't required, I can ask users for their email addresses if they choose to sign up?". If you're saying that your product works without requiring sign-up via email, then I expect the right thing to would be to ask a CM in a private message explaining how your product works for permission to make a post about it. However, that is not the way you explained your product in your original post.
Also, linking a 1st party website (such as a stats site) is not the same as advertising a completely new and unknown product which requires an email sign-up.
Having said all that - it's completely up to the CMs as to what is right and appropriate. Ultimately, it's at their discretion as to what they allow or don't allow.
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