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Francois replied on June 07, 2009 21:42 to the problem "Paypal Closed My Account becuase I have an adult website on Zocku.com!" in SocialGO:

Google is now requiring new and old users to supply their website info. I'm not sure if google allows for adult content. Their fees are basically the same as paypal.

Well does anyone know how Jommla works? I see they have something called "extensions" one called AEC that allows for a joomla site to bill members with CCbill, 2CO, Paypal, ClickBank and some others.

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Francois replied on June 07, 2009 10:26 to the problem "Paypal Closed My Account becuase I have an adult website on Zocku.com!" in SocialGO:

Hey Dokun,

I don't think just making a new paypal account will help. I already had 2 different paypal accounts. A Business one and a Premier one. They closed both.

One was tied to my credit union and the business account to my B.O.A account.

I would have to open a new bank account with a different home address and name so that when paypal do there verification nothing will link back to the closed accounts.

That's what a friend of mine did when he had a bad sale happen on ebay. Supposedly he made a new paypal account 4 to 5 months later from the time they first closed his first account. 3 weeks into having his new account they closed it because his info was the same as a "closed by paypal" account.

So I guess they behave like google with adsense. Once you do something out of their acceptable use policy even if by mistake, they ban you forever.

Well lets hope I get this job, I have an interview for later today. 7 months of looking for a job and still no hire. My pockets are really really going to be feeling it now.

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Francois replied on June 07, 2009 00:35 to the problem "Paypal Closed My Account becuase I have an adult website on Zocku.com!" in SocialGO:

Now that I'm thinking about it

I hope no one who has an adult site with zocku is paying to use the membership billing.

I tried to play paypal like the army, "Don't ask, don't tell".

Untill you guys can use something like CCBill.com then maybe zocku needs to shut down the membership billing.

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Francois reported a problem in SocialGO on June 06, 2009 23:47:

Paypal Closed My Account becuase I have an adult website on Zocku.com!
I never thought it would happen to me until I just read my email one hour ago.

Since Decemeber 2008, I never had a problem with the billing system on SG/Zocku and Paypal ever actually closing my account forever because I have an adult site.

I never mentioned anywhere in my paypal account any direct link to the site or any similar reference to the sites address. I figured they would easily just close my account if I did. Well they proved me wrong.

I never liked paypal after they were bought by ebay. Those sneaky people over at paypal.

I will be forced to close my site with you guys at SG/Zocku if you can't bring a new form of accepting payment for adult sites before the month of June is over.

BELOW IS THE PAYPAL EMAIL THEY SENT ME:

The PayPal User Agreement states that PayPal, at its sole discretion,
reserves the right to limit an account for any violation of the User
Agreement, including the Acceptable Use Policy. Under the Acceptable Use
Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for certain
sexually oriented materials or services or for items that are considered
obscene.

The complete Acceptable Use Policy can be found at the following URL:
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?...

To learn more about the Acceptable Use Policy, please refer to our Help
Center page here:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/helpwe...

We are hereby notifying you that, after a recent review of your account
activity, it has been determined that you are in violation of PayPal's
Acceptable Use Policy regarding your sales of Adult Digital Content, on
URL: http://www.(MY SITE ADDRESS HERE).com. Therefore, your account has been
permanently limited.

When PayPal limits an account due to an Acceptable Use Policy violation, it
is the company's policy to hold the funds for a period of 180 days. Once
the 180-day timeframe has elapsed, PayPal will release any remaining
balance either via bank transfer or issuance of a check. Please log in to
your PayPal account and verify that your account information is accurate,
as PayPal cannot be held responsible for incorrect information provided by
the account holder.

You will need to remove all references to PayPal from your website(s)
and/or auction(s). This includes not only removing PayPal as a payment
option, but also the PayPal logo and/or shopping cart. We thank you in
advance for your cooperation. If you have any questions, please contact
the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy Department at aup@paypal.com.

Sincerely,
PayPal Acceptable Use Policy Department
PayPal, an eBay Company
Francois shared an idea in SocialGO on May 20, 2009 08:10:

A Favorites List Tool for members Please
I know I've asked for such a tool before, but this morning I noticed something crazy.

Take a look at the picture below.

A member had to create a blog on his profile with his own favs links. THAT'S SAD, REALLY.

I had to write him and apologize for how non user friendly my site is becoming for all the content in it. Like the nearly 700 and counting videos that members can't search for the titles or by a tag in the "search" bar on all networks.

Please someone, EvilGenius maybe. Can you help. I'm sure all networks especially the adult ones would really need this.
Francois replied on May 11, 2009 22:31 to the update "Message All Members Offline for Zocku networks" in SocialGO:

Great
Francois replied on May 11, 2009 03:22 to the problem "My members and I are not receiving emails from my network." in SocialGO:

Amen!

I sent a message over a week ago, and now that I really need to send a message out but I'm not allowed.

My alexa ranking increased nearly 100,000 cause of this in the past week. NOT GOOD.

I have to remind my members from time to time about new stuff, but I only message them all when it's special new stuff.

I'm wondering when will we be on a solid, out of beta platform.

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Francois replied on May 09, 2009 19:12 to the question "Widget Store Is Here" in SocialGO:

I see it's now visible to me,

But

I just clicked on the buy now on all of them and I get the same pop up message, "Please upgrade your site to a premium plan in order to purchase widgets."

I thought all zocku members are on a premium plan.

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Francois replied on May 09, 2009 11:29 to the question "Widget Store Is Here" in SocialGO:

At least your able to see five @ sgtalks. Assuming your one of the lucky ones that are able to see the store.

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Francois replied on May 08, 2009 22:54 to the question "Widget Store Is Here" in SocialGO:

I'm with Shy Matsi.

My admin still says, " The Widget Store is coming soon"

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Francois replied on May 03, 2009 17:18 to the problem "Major PayPal subscription problem" in SocialGO:

Already complained about this twice, and got the same bland answer as, that is how the billing system functions.

I really do think it NEEDS to be looked over. Reason being when a member cancels before there time is over, there account goes into "payment pending". Then you as the admin. know that they still have time left so you have to change their account to "member".

Problem there is that within a few hours or a few days, it automatically goes back into "payment pending".

On top of this admins have to get out our notepads and write down there member info and the date that you will go back and really place there account into "payment pending". Basically manually governing members accounts which kinda defeats the use of the billing system when paypal can provide you a subscribe button, so you can manually take charge of who becomes a members to your site.

I suggest it be redesigned or a "big" warning (which will probably scare your potential new members away) stating that if they have any intentions of canceling there payment before the next billing cycle, to wait until at least the day before or your account simply will not work. No Refunds!

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Francois replied on April 27, 2009 03:24 to the question "embedded webcam chat room ? any solution you propose?" in SocialGO:

I feel the same way.

Once this widget store opens we'll see how long from there it takes to get this kind of widget.

I have a feeling that everyone with access to the widget store will get the webcam chatroom widget immediately.

Hope there is a seamless way we could also add our logos to the widget and maybe change the colors so every site that gets the widget could look a little different.

Anyway, anything that comes from the LAB is always very useful.

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Francois replied on April 23, 2009 16:15 to the problem "Manage Members acting funny" in SocialGO:

Tom,

Is there away that the system can mention to the new member when signing up, if they want to cancel that it would be best to cancel the day before.

This way I won't have to message every new member and tell them this and avoid having them get angry that there membership goes back into payment pending when I change it to member.

Maybe like a little warning message when they sign up.

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Francois replied on April 23, 2009 15:26 to the problem "Manage Members acting funny" in SocialGO:

Here is the reply that was given:

"Just spoke to a techy and he said this is the way the system is built.
If you have any further queries feel free to contact me.

Regards

Max"

Well my suggestion would be to go rebuild it, or stop trying to push $20 bucks for it.

If I'm having to manually do things, I might aswell just make a subscribe button from paypal, put in on the welcome page. Then I'll have to monitor the list of paying members I would have to keep up with.

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Francois replied on April 23, 2009 04:42 to the problem "Manage Members acting funny" in SocialGO:

Now it's also not functioning right with new paying members.

I got a new subscriber just about an hour ago, checked paypal and the payment was not with an echeck so his membership should of automatically went into "member" status.

Instead I had to manually turn his account from "pending payment" to "member".

I hope it does not in few hours just automatically switch his account to "pending payment". I'm sure he'll end up complaining again and canceling his membership.

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Francois reported a problem in SocialGO on April 23, 2009 00:08:

Manage Members acting funny
There is an issue with the member manager. For instance I have this one member who paid for his membership for the month and canceled the very same day. It automatically places his account into "payment pending".

So I log on and change his status to "member". Then every day it changes back to "payment pending" by itself.

Why is it that the member ship billing can not do this on it's own? It should know that the members account should be active until the day his account is to expire instead of it placing the members account into payment pending when they already paid for the month.
Francois replied on March 29, 2009 09:57 to the problem "Message to all doesn't arrive" in SocialGO:

It's been 2 days for me now

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Francois replied on March 24, 2009 05:16 to the question "Whats The Future With SG?" in SocialGO:

Weeks for the widget store?

You said few not couple, so I'm guessing a late April?

Well at least I won't have to check like 5 times a day if there is any news on the day it comes out.

I was hoping to get access to it before you guys start charging the adult networks for membership billing which will be $70 + what ever the widgets cost a month.

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Francois replied on March 12, 2009 21:54 to the problem "Embed Video Issue Part 2" in SocialGO:

- Quick Update -

Alex had told me that javascript embedding is no longer allowed, He did correct all my current videos.

So if any of you are using players from JW (longtailvideo.com) then use the embed codes they give you, not the javascript version.

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Francois reported a problem in SocialGO on March 12, 2009 19:23:

Embed Video Issue Part 2
All my embedded video no longer work again. Today I tried the JW player (code example below) and got an error page saying that code is not supported. BTW all my videos use this type of code. (I had to remove < and > from the codes below for it to display on here)

script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.jeroenwijering.com/embed/swfobject.js"
/script
div id="player" This text will be replaced
script type="text/javascript"
var so = new SWFObject('http://MY GODADDY PLAYER FLIE LOCTION','mpl','740','440','9');
so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addParam('flashvars','&file=http://MY FLV FILE LOCATION&skin=http://MY VIDEO PLAYER SKIN&bufferlength=12&volume=55&autostart=true');
so.write('player');
/script)

BUT

Then I tried the other code that none of my videos are encoded with (code example below) and it worked.

embed
src="http://MY GODADDY PLAYER FLIE LOCTION";
width="740"
height="440"
bgcolor="undefined"
allowscriptaccess="always"
allowfullscreen="true"
flashvars="file=http://MY FLV FILE LOCATION&skin=http://MY VIDEO PLAYER SKIN&bufferlength=12&volume=55&autostart=true&stretching=none";
/

I have over 500 videos currently, Am I really expected to go back and delete every video again and use the code that now works for the 4th time that I been here since January?

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