Service Reviews & Beta Testers Section Rules & Procedures

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Welcome to the Service Reviews & Beta Testers Help Wanted section!

This section is intended for Jr VIPs, Premium members, and Marketplace Sellers to find other members to review or beta test an upcoming product or service.

This section is free to list in but carries a few section-specific rules that need to be followed carefully.

Rules​

What Is Allowed

• Use this section if you're seeking members to take pre-sale review copies of your product or service.
• Use this section if you're seeking beta testers for an upcoming service/product and you do not require any investment and or fees to be in your beta group. In other words, it must be free.

What Isn't Allowed For Service Owners

• Do not use this section to up-sell or promote services to any member (i.e., "free trial" or grace period offers or "if you like this, why not try out our other service").
• Do not include links in your post to off-site forms to collect user's information, email opt-ins, or any other mechanism used to harvest user information.
  • What's Not Allowed: "The idea that I'm about to build a Papal monkey generator - sign up now and I'll give you access when it's ready."
  • What's Allowed: "I've got this service I'd like you to test for free - give me feedback in the thread"
• Do not use this section to attempt to circumvent the marketplace rules and requirements in any way.
• Do not post convoluted descriptions, feature lists, or screenshots of your products or services in an attempt to make direct sales from this section.
• Do not request fake reviews from other members.
• Do not offer incentives for reviews from this section.
• Do not bump your thread in this section.
• Do not ask beta testers to bump or like your main sales thread to claim a review copy.

What Isn't Allowed For Beta Testers

• You must provide the seller with genuine feedback.
• Do not leave fake reviews for service owners.

As with all sections, beta testing threads must comply the forum-wide rules & TOS.

Best Practices​

• Use [BETA TESTERS] or [REVIEWERS] tags in your thread title.
• In the title or body of your thread, state how many people you're looking to review.
• List any member criteria, system requirements, or work involved in your main post so that all parties have a clear understanding of what is required at the start.
• Use predefined criteria in your request so you attract member-reviewers who best meet your requirements (ex. must have 100 posts, be a member for 6 months and be Jr VIP etc).
• Once your done beta testing, please report your thread so that a staff member may close it.