Just an FYI on this, 'askapache' has had his Rewards privileges permanently revoked.

It is absolutely unacceptable to:

1. Repost entire pages from our site verbatim (outside of obvious Fair Use) without permission, particularly in order to benefit financially from it.

2. Rewrite links from said quoted text so that they become Rewards links, as if we were linking there ourselves.

3. Represent their site as somehow being "sponsored" or otherwise endorsed by DreamHost Web Hosting if that is not the case. Participating in Rewards is not the same thing as being endorsed by DreamHost itself.

4. Otherwise misrepresenting your relationship with DreamHost, particularly in order to benefit financially from it.

5. Spamming forums - including our own - in order to lure prospective DreamHost customers to your site in order to obtain Rewards using thinly veiled promotional techniques.

Anyhow, I think we've made it very clear in the past that this sort of thing would not be allowed or tolerated. If anyone sees this sort of thing in the future, please email TS and ask that the message go to Abuse/Security ("attn. Jeff C.").

Thanks to those who contacted us about this particular case.


- Jeff @ DreamHost
- DH Discussion Forum Admin