why are methods against the rules?

[Crust]

I was wondering why methods were against the rules lol

 

[Nordic]

I can only assume since they tend to be, at least in the cases I've seen, to be low-effort or ways to just make a quick buck off an already well-known method. This seems to be the case on most forums having methods and e-books, and I can see why they'd not want it here..

 

[Jerry]

Many require so much work/time that it's not worth it and the sellers overprice them. It's a scam prevention in a way.
Most methods are also already public; another scam prevention.
Some are also illegal and, without knowing the full method, staff are unable to determine whether or not they are indeed legal or not.

 

[Taiga]

same reason as nfa mc accounts, to prevent the most common scams to sour up this community.
There are other sites that offers a place for methods, do it there

 

[MarkElf]

It was mostly inspired by a large server owner, that I can't remember off the top of my head and I can't be bothered to check his name, selling a "how to make your server popular" e-book/method for $50 that contained super basic information as far as I recall. That basically brought an end to both ebooks and methods after a general agreement by the community was established that they shouldn't be allowed. That and an excuse to get a refund for their overpriced common knowledge which probably wouldn't even be much use to a new server owner.

 

[n0tzach]

It was mostly inspired by a large server owner, that I can't remember off the top of my head and I can't be bothered to check his name, selling a "how to make your server popular" e-book/method for $50 and contained super basic information as far as I recall. That basically brought an end to both ebooks and methods after a general agreement by the communitywwas established that they shouldn't be allowed. That and an excuse to get a refund for their overpriced common knowledge which probably wouldn't even be much use to a new server owner.

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