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Post by JirkaXI on Apr 15, 2005 18:11:48 GMT -5
Hi! I need help... What if I sign for some program, earn credit for it and after some time I find that program not very inteesting, so I cancel my membership there... Is this cheating or is it OK?
Thanks for help JirkaXI
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Post by Lystrian on Apr 15, 2005 18:28:43 GMT -5
Hi JirkaXI,
im not a mod, so cant say so for sure..
im guessin its not cheating as long as you are not just signing up for programs so you can earn enough points to submit a few of your own...
guessin....
you should investigate the program before just randomly signing up for one... if they have forums read them... read the part where it says "been paid" also the section on 'help' or 'support'... see the reaction time, also how helpful those answers are to the victim...
read the terms of agreement too... sometimes they can conflict with what you have in mind...
but life happens, so I wouldnt think it would be wrong to leave if thats what life has in mind for you
as long as life doesnt happen 15 times a day for ya...
my two cents and a sixpack
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Post by renderud on Apr 16, 2005 0:51:15 GMT -5
Hello,] In my opinion if you give the program a fair chance and are disappointed, quitting is not cheating. I have joined a couple paid to reads that send a ton of mail but the value is so low it would take 3mo of 4 or 5 hours a day to reach $5 payout. My time is worth more than that. These were not nessesarily thru Getref. But my point is the same. Quitting these after a while should not be considered cheating. renderud
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Post by JirkaXI on Apr 16, 2005 6:10:09 GMT -5
Thank everyoe for help! My case is exactly the same as renderud wrote...so, I am glad it is not considered as cheating...
JirkaXI
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Post by robinh00d on May 18, 2005 9:34:10 GMT -5
just dont do it in first day plus dont make a habbit out of it.. if you do one day karma could strike back at you
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Post by timonier on May 19, 2005 19:29:00 GMT -5
In your case, flat out NO, it wasn't cheating. You signed up in good faith and then found the program was not worthwhile (for some reason).
The very fact that you worry about this being cheating indicates that you worry about acting honorably. What is cheating, is harvesting points with no intention from the very start to use that program.
It's up to users to offer worthwhile programs. Some won't work for everyone, some are not really worth your time (e.g., a traffic exchange where you keep getting always only the same page reads, where the membership is small and doesn't increase, etc.)
I especially consider Vinterchange (a manual exchange) a rip: you get peanuts in points for surfing, but you keep seeing the same d**n pages because they give a few users enormous credits in their monthly competition: so if you're not in the running for one of the few prizes, you get nearly nothing for your surfing the same pages over and over.
Some PTRs scam their members - if you signed up for one of these and later learned that it is a scammer, it might even be argued that it is your moral duty to quit, knock their advertised membership by 1 (assuming the owner's not lying about the stats.)
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