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Marketing-Content Policy

What members may say about organisations, products, and professional work without turning Merifora into a sales channel.

Private-beta draft

Merifora is marketing-free by design. This policy governs member contributions; any future paid access will be clearly labelled and will never purchase influence over moderation or feed ranking.

Updated 15 November 2026
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Allowed when genuinely informative

  • First-hand professional lessons, product or service criticism, industry analysis, and discussion of work that is relevant to the topic.
  • Neutral references needed to explain an experience, including naming an employer, tool, event, publication, or project.
  • Disclosure of a relevant affiliation or material interest when readers need it to interpret the contribution.
  • Recommendations made without reward, sales pressure, tracking links, or coordinated promotion, provided the contribution offers independent substance.
02

Not allowed

  • Advertising copy, slogans, repeated brand praise, product launches framed as personal insight, or calls to buy, subscribe, register, follow, donate, invest, or contact a salesperson.
  • Affiliate, referral, discount, campaign, tracking, or lead-generation links and codes.
  • Paid, gifted, commissioned, employer-directed, or otherwise incentivised promotion, whether disclosed or hidden.
  • Recruiting blasts, event promotion, fundraising, political campaigning, coordinated advocacy, or unsolicited commercial contact.
  • Using comments, profiles, messages, or member information to redirect attention to an external audience or sales funnel.
03

Affiliations and edge cases

Disclosure does not convert an advertisement into acceptable content. It helps readers understand a contribution that already has independent value. If the primary purpose is to generate attention, demand, contacts, money, or measurable action for an interested party, it does not belong on Merifora.

Members may discuss their own work when the contribution teaches, questions, or reflects rather than promotes. Moderators consider wording, links, repetition, timing, incentives, and the member's relationship to the subject.

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How review works

New contributions may be assessed before publication using multilingual service-protection tools and authorised review.

Potential marketing content may remain unpublished for a human decision. Materially adverse content and account decisions remain under authorised human control and are recorded where appropriate.

05

Practical test

Ask: would this still be worth sharing if no reader could buy, register, follow, donate, apply, or contact anyone afterward? If the answer is no, rewrite it around the independent lesson—or do not post it.