Advertising Integrity: Admins add who paid for this AD!
Faeyas
We see it all the time in the states. When political season comes along there is always that last few seconds dedicated to those lovely words "Paid for by:" followed by the organization or person responsible for the ad.
It is convenient. Everyone who sees the ad knows immediately whose interest the ad is for, and who put it out there. Everyone involved is immediately held accountable for their words, and actions.
This is the Reality in real life.
It is not the reality in eRepublik.
eJapan just witnessed an interesting few days where ads, acting like they were from the parties ULJ and SOS were posted with falsified information. This lead to massive confusion and some pretty bad words tossed around.
Neither party actually posted these ADs, an unknown third party did. However the damage done couldn't have been done if everyone seeing these ads had seen who funded and published them.
Anonymous ads can hurt people if someone decides to pretend to be a Party, Player, or Company that they are not, within their ad.
There is no limitation to this except for the victim to report the matter after the fact. By that time countless eRep citizens could have seen the ad and been effected by its false message.
We are not asking for much, a minor change in the code to add an additional line that states:
"Paid for by:" followed by the name of the account where the gold came from for the advertisement
This line should be immediately following the final line in the ad, right before the report button.
With this, no one can again pretend to be a player, party or organization they are not.
If you agree that the Admins/Developers should add this in please vote this up so we can reach international.
MAKE THE ADMINS SEE THAT WE WONT STAND FOR THIS TYPE OF IDENTITY THIEVERY!
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Voted and Signed, spread the article to everyone!!!
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~ Geno Garon
Did you post this as an open letter too?
Makes sense. I agree with this.
Good luck getting the admin to listen!
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Reiji - open letters are not for things like this 😃
I posted a suggestion in the suggestion forums here: http://www.erepublik.com/en/forum/topic/134043/advertising-integrety-adding-who-paid-for-that-ad/1#post1473052" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/forum/topic/[..]73052
I agree! I've thought we needed this since the "fat man Oraizan" ad back in August! Why can't the admins see how necessary this is? But at least it helped me seee who my true friends are...
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Good article. Voted.
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Agreed! I was wondering what that was about...
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Forward this to the admins directly please.
Signed and Voted. Terrific Idea!
signed. Also spamming it commenses... NAO.
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everybody whos signed should copy and past into a ticket and i should be posted in the suggestions forum and as a open letter
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My name is Thinh Nguyen,
And I approve this article.
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Signed by Devan Kronos
Ambassador to eJapan from the eUnited Stats.
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Admin should make ad writers visible.
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Signed and voted. This is something that the New World could definitely use improvement in, though some honorable groups / individuals already sign their ads voluntarily. Still, having ads automatically tagged instead of doing so manually would be a huge step forward.
signed and voted, good idea.
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For the purposes of this game, I agree. Signed.
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Signed! Truth in Advertising, truth in Elections.