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Invalid Scour Usage Guidelines

To help ensure that user activity is valid and of value to the Scour community, below is a list of excessive behaviors and activities that may result in a reduction of points or a user's account being banned:

Searching:

Searches of invalid characters:
- Example: asdfadfadsfsadfadslkal;kjfdlakjfdalsjfa, $@#%&^%^
Suspicious non-human search patterns: Searches conducted by an automated script
- Example: X5648, X5647, X5646, X5645, X5644
Repeated searches
- Example: a, ab, abc, abc1
Spam Searches: Excessive one word searches that do not exhibit normal user behavior.
- Example: dog, park, vote, starks, green, sand, box, filled
Erratic Searches: Excessive unrelated searches within very short period of times.
- Example: Dog, Sony Plasma TV, Einstein, newyek, repsev, newyork,...

Commenting:

Excessive amount of short non-descript comments.
- Example: great, i like it, cool, fun etc...
Repeated comments
- Example: recommended site, recommended site!, I recommend this site
Invalid words within comments
- Example: asdfadfadsfsadfadslkal;kjfdlakjfdalsjfa, $@#%&^%^
Vulgar comments: Profanity or offensive content.
Self promotion: Excessive promotional statements about your own site.

Promotional efforts

Instructing others on how to game the Scour rewards system (Youtube videos, blog posts etc...)

Email Invites:

Emails sent to users who you have never had any previous interaction with.
Emails that cause multiple spam complaints from users.

No Self Invited Accounts or Multiple Accounts Under A Single User

Notes:

Any banned account within your friend network will deduct points earned from that friend.
Please do not violate the rewards system. It is something we are trying to offer to you as an incentive. Don't abuse it.