[Ryan]

We have had some members express an interest in having their friends post for them at other forums and earn credit for them in PostFusion, and we have now decided to allow you to do this. It has recently been discussed in this thread.

The reason we have been so hesitant about it is because of the potential for it to be exploited. We fear that people might soon learn that all they have to do is visit other PF forums and subscribe under the name of an active poster or a newly registered member. There is no way to prevent this with the current system, so right now we rely on the owners of each forum to monitor this for us. In a future release, we do plan to have precautions to prevent this. We haven't had a single incidence of this during the first 3 months that PF has been around, but the chance is always out there.

In order to curb this, we are going to follow a "you do it, you are banned" policy, no questions asked. If you are caught subscribing under a name that is neither yours nor a friends, I promise you that you will be immediately banned from PostFusion and AdminFusion. We strongly encourage all PF forum owners to keep a good eye out for fishy activity. If you suspect that somebody might be subscribing under a stranger's name, let us know here, and we will investigate for you. We don't expect to have any problems with this as we haven't had any since day one, but if we ever do, you now know what the result will be

In order to let a friend post for you, simply have them register at a participating forum and Subcribe to those forums with the name that they use.

Hopefully this helps out everybody who is running low on time but has friends with too much of it! And remember, try to get your buddies to post at the forums with the highest balance

If you have any questions about this, let us know here.

[SKETCHi]

I'm glad you decided to allow this, since I really don't have enough time to post as much as I want to. That, and a lot of the forums have very specific topics which I just don't know enough about. I wouldn't want to waste everyone elses time by posting garbage generic posts .

[Ryan]

Glad to hear it, SKETCHi. We're really hoping this improves the "effectiveness" of PostFusion - it should open the doors for many people.

[markblair]

So this'll only work for forums that you aren't already subscribed to? For example, if your friend wants to help out, you can't both be subscribed to the same forum, right?

[Ryan]

I *think* we can do that...it's actually something we need to test because we do have a need for it for another purpose soon. I've already chatted with you on MSN about this, so we'll test it out...if anybody else needs to do this, contact me in private...once we test it with one person, we'll know whether or not it can be done...if so, I'll let everybody else know how to do it.

[cpvr]

Great announcement, I was waiting for this to be allowed.
Great work! =D

[Harlzard]

yeah knock out those big guys with the big points!

Thats nice to let this be allowed, i might get a friend or 2...or 3 to do some posting for me.

(it might cost me to pursuade them to do it though, stingy friends hey.)

[LennyP]

A way to check that would make significantly more work would be to have the user e-mail you from the accont they registered with that they are indeed posting for someone elses account. Don't know if you would want to do this, but it is one idea.