Welcome to the CNET forums!
First I'd like thank you for asking for before just going out into the forums and posting your recruitment ad.
As much as like to allow you to solicit our community for pilot testing your beta product (which does sound interesting by the way), I will have to respectfully decline your request. The reason why we prohibit such solicitations and disallow member surveys whether it is for monetary gain or not, is that if we allow you to advertise this, to be fair, we will have to allow others too. And once that is allowed, you can bet more request will come in and this can and will get out of hand very quickly. As it stand today, we currently already remove several posted surveys a week, just think what would happen if we did allow it.The last thing I want is the CNET forums to be labeled as the poster child for surveys and beta tester recruitment.
With that said Joakim, I hope you understand and respect our position and why we disallow this.
I wish you the best of luck in your start up and again thank you kindly for asking before posting.
Respectfully,
-Lee
CNET Community
My name is Joakim Hedvall.
I am a representative for a Swedish IT start-up called Movieggs.? We are currently looking for test pilots for our Beta2 launch. ?My question is: Is it appropriate to post such a request on CNET?? We have no intention of spamming and are convinced that many members of this community will find what we do interesting.
We do not gain commercially from the test and Movieggs is free of charge and will always be so. Our company has no commercial activities at the time being. Is this still advertising?
Please reply / Respect / Have a nice one / Joakim ?
http://movieggs.com/
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