Posting Guidelines (UPDATED – 12/3/12) READ BEFORE POSTING

Important: DO NOT republish the releases moved to trash by Admin/Moderator, and DO NOT edit the posts locked/closed by Admin/Moderator.

1. Only one post per release. Please search to see if it was posted already.
2. Titles should follow this format: ARTIST – TITLE – [CATALOG #]
3. Leave comments OPEN on your posts. Posts with closed comments will be moderated and if someone habitually breaks the rule, their post will be deleted.
4. Mirrors/other hosts should be posted in comments.
5. DO NOT delete anyone’s comments. That’s the mod/admin’s job. ;)
6. Do not include ‘played by’, ’supported by’ or any promotional bio of the release, unless you are a the label owner.

7. Posts with no download links are incomplete and will be held for review or deleted.
8. (updated 7/02) If your release has a long tracklisting (more than 10 files/tracks) or your post is going to be extra long, please use the ‘more’ code.
9. No more than 10 new/release posts, per day, per person. You can post as many comments as you like. This will prevent 1 or 2 people flooding the site with their posts and will let different people a chance to share.
10. (added 7/8) No ‘Packs’ or groups of releases in one post with multiple download links; posts with multiple tracks and 1 download link are OK. Those kinds of posts aren’t fair to other posters and don’t follow the correct format.
11. (added 7/10) If you use a link redirection like lix.in, please write the NAME of the mirror in the post, so people know what they are clicking on.
12. (added 7/14) Remember that only commercially released music is allowed; your promo mixes and music are not allowed, unless you are a label posting the music.
13. (added 7/19) Please do not add the ’store’ or place where the release was obtained; example: DO NOT type “Beatport”, “Juno” or “Beatport.com”… ‘WEB’ is OK.
14. (updated 8/13) Please use the following format for making a post:

ARTWORK (if available)
Artist
Title
Label
Genre
Release Date
Quality
Source (WEB/VINYL)

1. TRACK 1
2. TRACK 2

DOWNLOAD LINK

15. (added 8/6) If you post a release with multiple tracks, ZIP or RAR them into one link. DO NOT post as individual links for each track. These posts will be deleted immediately.
16. (updated 8/22) Since there is confusion… only publish a post with the link you want people to use; do not link-switch. Example: Do not publish the post with a Hotfile or Oron link and then edit the post later with a different link.
ADDITIONALLY: You should only post YOUR links to files YOU uploaded, not links copied from other forums/sites. This should be a ‘given’, but allow this to serve is clarification.
17. CHARTS and playlists will no longer be allowed. Also, any post containing the words ‘Beatport’ and images from ‘Beatportal’ will be deleted… no exceptions.
18. (updated 10/31) When making a comment, do NOT add ‘.’ to try to add spaces in your comment.
Example:

Hotfile Mirror
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If you don’t follow the rules, your post(s) will be un-published.

Play nice and we can all get along :D

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