Devlounge | Staff Agreement | August, 2006
Updated on Feb 18th, 2007
Notice: The
purpose of this agreement is to prevent authors from taking advantage
of Devlounge, and to keep the integrity and quality of content at the
absolute highest.
You, the author, must remain honest
and accurate in all article postings. You are free to express your
opinion on topics you are writing about, but do not over do it so much
as to seem to be forcing it down the readers throats. Articles must be
built up, and have a backbone to them. A bare and undetailed article
will cause you to be removed from the staff team. We monitor articles
for grammar and spelling, so please run a spell check before
publishing. We all slip from time to time, but please try to keep the
spelling mistakes to a minimum. Only submit your article to one main
category and sub category (EX: Articles and one (1) subcategory),
whichever is the absolute best fit for the article you are publishing.
1A. Self Promotion
Because we reach a wide audience, we
ask that our authors refrain from linking and reusing articles on their
site, unless specific permission has been granted by myself for a
specific article. The authors page will drive traffic to your site, so
you will be making a name for yourself and your site traffic will
increase without the need to link your site in every post. While we'd
love to allow this, readers would generally find it very annoying to be
reading intro or outro paragraph about where the article came from or
more about the authors site.
1B. Monetization
Yes, Devlounge does make money. Most
of our profits go right back into the site in the form of server fees,
purchasing of various scripts, etc. We do not pay staff members, as we
do not bring in enough to pay our contributing staff. Devlounge will
bring more readers to your own site, which in turn could bring money
into your own pocket.
Devlounge reserves the right to remove
any staff member without notice if we feel your articles have not been
detailed enough, poor use of grammar and / or spelling, or the article
is unoriginal or false in nature. In which case, articles you may have
written will remain on [and remain the property of] Devlounge and will
be contributed to the "Admin". One of the biggest reasons for this is
to eliminate vast dead links and to protect our content that helps
build Devlounge into the resource it is today.
By publishing your first article, you "Accept" this agreement and understand the nature in which we operate.