Hi, Is this a breach of rules? Surely Gametracker is not a service to provide a free directory of game server owners for marketing companies to approach upon, selling there cheap advertising? I have all the original pm messages from this person if required. Its a nuisance if one does it, but what if more or everyone starts doing it?



Here is the pm I got ( ive removed the name at the end ) :


Oiminc wrote:
Subject - Game server partnership
To the server owner

I'm looking to get a message to the owner/administrator of your game servers. My name is ************. My company, Online Interactive Marketing has proven a concept that we are looking to expand.

My team has alerted me that your servers see a good number of impressions each month. Our company sponsors community servers, usually more than covering the running costs. In exchange for this, we brand the MOTD space of certain source based titles. We run advertisements through a commercial media agency for known, relevant and respected brands. Experience has shown that gamers are receptive to the advertisements and understand that the revenues from them go towards supporting the server communities. We currently provide revenue for servers running: Counter Strike Source, Day of Defeat Source, Half Life 2 deathmatch, Left 4 Dead 2 and Team Fortress 2

If this is something that your community would be interested in, or you have any questions please get in contact with me via email: ******@oiminc.com.au, skype: ******** or telephone: +******** 181913 (please be aware this may be an International call.

Best Regards

************* Community Manager
Online Interactive Marketing

Which user?

Well, it says from "oiminc" as a user which looking at it, stands for Online Interactive Marketing Incorporated as per my post above but his name is "Daniel Ringland" . But anyway, here is a screen shot to prove it as well. You might want to zoom in or save image and view elsewhere as this forum limits the viewing size.




Also, how can I forward this pm to you? Firstly Its hard enough to navigate to my pm account section anyway, and second, I cant seem to see a forward option.

Any help would be great. If you need more info, I cant really give you anymore as that is all I have.

The time I got it tho, was today at 04:08am UK BST time if it helps. ( UK + 1hour summery time)

IXL

This user deserve istant ban.

Any update on this?

ixl- wrote:
Any update on this?
What further updates are you looking for exactly?

Well you asked for his name and ive given you it.

I thought you asked for a reason and were going to do something about it ( I logically thought you would let us ( me ) know an outcome or advise if what he has done is an acceptable thing to be doing???? If so, then we all can start poaching and approaching members and administrators for money making schemes / advertising using your gametracker as a phonebook.


In short, as per my first post, I just wanted to know if this is a breach of your rules or not.

Well for privacy reasons we do not release information about other users, but his profile does say that he is suspended.

I know, I dont want to know his imformation about him, but as per my question for the third time, is this allowed or not? Is he suspended because of what he did/does or for some other reason.

I think its important to know if this a breach of the rules or not.

It is against the rules, yes.