L2 Voting

[Kadar]

Due to the unfortunate way that some servers have setup voting on their sites and have used Hopzone as their voting pawn, we will modify our voting system and rules.
Some are not going to like it. The majority are already compliant and will have nothing to change.


Starting September 15, 2008:

1. Vote link/banner may not be in any script, program, launcher, loader, updater, floating, etc...
2. Voting banner MUST BE ON your homepage.
3. The link must be. (http://l2.hopzone.net/vote.php?site=#####).

What this means is:

1. No more floating banners, no vote scripts, no vote or wait redirects, no popups, no flash, no js. No client side scripts; launcher. loader, updater....
This does not mean that you can't have flash or js on your site, it just means the Hz vote banner can not be used in it.
Nothing but a plain and simple Hz banner. (You may use your own banner, but the same rules apply, See #3 below)

2. The Hopzone vote banner MUST be found on your homepage.

3. The link must be our link. (http://l2.hopzone.net/vote.php?site=#####)
If you plan not to use the voting banners we provide (because of various reasons), the banner must contain our name (HopZone) not "vote" or "vote for us".
Good example should be: "vote for us on HopZone".


New server submissions shall take effect immediately. (Sep 4)


Why not in flash?
1. Because when a search bot like google or yahoo goes to your site, they do not find the link back to our site. So basically, you are not advertising Hopzone any more, your just advertising a picture.
2. Because putting our banner in flash allows admins to script in ways we do not allow.