After 451,697 tips from 156,120 members, the time has come to shut down Tip’d. Thanks to all of our loyal members for making Tip’d a fun ride for almost four years.
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As Andy alluded to in our previous post, we have made a few tweaks to our backend to help significantly decrease the amount of spam that gets posted at Tip’d. The biggest change that we’re pleased to announce is our new user sign-up process that now requires e-mail confirmation. We’ve already seen a sizable decrease in spam from new users, which has made our moderators’ jobs much easier.
In this same vein of decreasing spam and to keep Tip’d relevant and interesting to our community, we also thought it necessary to publish an explicit set of rules for all submissions to Tip’d. If you have any questions or concerns about these guidelines, or if you ever want to report spam on the site, please feel free to email our abuse department at abuse AT tipd DOT com.
Submission Guidelines
- Submissions must be topically relevant. Tip’d is a financial and business website at its core. All subjects primarily should be business or financially related. When you submit content, you then choose a category. While we have “green” and “tech” categories, any such submission should still be primarily business or financial. For example, “5 Great Anti-Virus Applications” just doesn’t work. That’s tech, sure, but it’s not business or financial (unless you can tie that into the article).
- We love it when you submit news, ideas, and tips. But we’re not a classifieds service. Please submit relevant articles to the site. Submitting your “payday loans” or “business insurance” site’s landing page isn’t what we’re about.
- Tip’d is not a deals site. We’re happy you have found 50% off that new microwave, but this isn’t the place to promote it. There are dozens of deals sites out there, so feel free to venture there.
- Tip’d is also not a marketing site. Anything about “how to get more followers on Twitter” to “SEO” to “affiliate marketing” to “internet marketing tactics” just doesn’t work here. There is also a very strong Internet Marketing social news site. Pull up your favorite search engine and search for it. Submit there instead.
- We have a “real estate” category, but listing your home for sale in Australia or Austin, TX doesn’t fly here either. If the topic isn’t financial or business — and we mean for the community’s benefit — it just doesn’t work.
At the end of the day, Tip’d is a community, but you must play by the rules in order to be accepted. The moderators reserve the right to take action on the accounts and submissions that do not meet our submission criteria. We will also ban IPs of egregious and repeat offenders. Alternatively, we may contact you directly to send a warning.
We hope you enjoy our community. We’ve spent a long time building it and making it approachable. Please make yourself at home, pull up a seat, and join our family.
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Yes indeed, we’ve reached the 30,000 user mark for the Tip’d community… we’re 15 months old, and still going strong! Thanks to everyone in the Tip’d community who shares financial news and tips every day to make us the best PF community on the Web. We’re long overdue for some technical updates to the site–especiallya few anti-spam tweaks to help our moderator team so they can spend more time helping the community (vs. deleting spam). We’ll make sure to update the blog when the updates are live.
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On October 28, Tip’d partner Kiplinger.com went live with a new site design. Of particular interest to Tip’d members is the Kiplinger’s new Tip’d widget, which displays the five most recent Kiplinger.com stories that have been published to the Tip’d home page. The widget is featured in the sidebar on all individual article pages. (For an example, see the widget in the sidebar near the bottom of this post.)
So far, the response has been very good, as the widget has been sending hundreds of new visitors to Tip’d each day since the new design launched.
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We’ve officially surpassed the 20,000 user registration mark here at Tip’d (almost exactly a year after launching). Thank you to our great communityand moderator team to getting us where we are today, and here’s to the next 20k!
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