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#1 2011-04-15 12:36:41
New Members: Donate without paying
New Members, do you not have any $$$ (£££ for WeirdF)? Love Scratch tho? Well then, you can donate without paying.
Guide:
1. On another [popular] forum, set a signature with a link to http://scratch.mit.edu/
2. Now post frequently on that forum, and guess what? Scratch gets money with every post!
EDIT: Guide edited, as spamming is bad.
Last edited by rdococ (2011-04-18 16:00:27)
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#2 2011-04-15 12:53:39
- puppetadventurer
- Scratcher
- Registered: 2011-02-20
- Posts: 1000+
Re: New Members: Donate without paying
does it really work?
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#3 2011-04-15 12:54:35
- Paddle2See
- Scratch Team
- Registered: 2007-10-27
- Posts: 1000+
Re: New Members: Donate without paying
This sounds a lot like Search Engine Optimization spam (SEO). And, while it is very nice of you to think of Scratch, I'm pretty sure that Scratch doesn't get money for it's rating in search indices...because Scratch doesn't have any advertisers.
Of course, publicity is always valuable, even for a non-profit site (higher usage of the site makes a better argument for grant applications), and if you want to advertise Scratch on your own sites, that would be great. But (as you point out) don't do it on other people's sites 
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#4 2011-04-15 21:36:27
- GameHutSoftware
- Scratcher
- Registered: 2010-04-24
- Posts: 1000+
Re: New Members: Donate without paying
Interesting... Maybe you should spam links to both the home page and the one you go to if you want to donate money.
Lurking more than posting, but still here.
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#5 2011-04-16 20:11:48
Re: New Members: Donate without paying
Please don't do this. Spamming is bad, and we will not receive any money from this, nor would we want to receive any money from spamming.
And of course, whenever anyone uses a Scratch account to make links to sites for the purpose of spamming, or increasing a site's page ranking, their Scratch account will be blocked. Even if we did make money from our members spamming other sites with our links (which we don't) , we wouldn't want them to do it. Spam sucks.
Help Scratchers make the leap to 2.0!
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#6 2011-04-18 11:19:01
Re: New Members: Donate without paying
Wait I said in a forum where it's ALLOWED to spam, e.g. a private forum just for me.
EDIT: Also, check the alternative, using a sig and posting frequently.
Last edited by rdococ (2011-04-18 11:19:56)
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#7 2011-04-18 16:01:14
Re: New Members: Donate without paying
New!
Removed the one that requires SEO spam skills.
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