Sharing These To WeChat Will Be Banned! Let’s Check!

WeChat just updated a series of regulations surrounding external links. Let’s check! 

Sharing These To WeChat Will Be Banned! Let's Check!

“Hi friend, would you like to click this link to help me get a discount?” 
 
“Hey! Plz give a ‘like’ to my latest WeChat Moments post, thx!” 
 
“Join my team to get a price cut!” 

Have you ever sent or received such messages and felt annoyed about it? From next week these external links will be banned

WeChat releases an update to external links policies which will take effect on Oct 28. External links that require users to invite clicks from contacts are no longer allowed. 

Sharing These To WeChat Will Be Banned! Let's Check!
Here’s a knife, cut it yourself ok? 

DETAILS

According to the statement, WeChat has updated four items in its guidelines on external links concerning social sharing features and user profile photos. 
 
Sharing These To WeChat Will Be Banned! Let's Check!
 

Companies are forbidden from making unauthorized edits to user profile photos and nicknames. 

WeChat has banned posts that require users to ask contacts to repostlike, or click to open an external link within the post to qualify for a discount or participate in a marketing scheme.

Sharing These To WeChat Will Be Banned! Let's Check!

Operations that require users to open or download another app in order to obtain monetary rewards, physical prizes, and virtual prizes are also banned.

Sharing These To WeChat Will Be Banned! Let's Check!

WeChat also widens its ban on fraudulent activity to include group-buying links, including lotteries or sales of goods with an obvious disparity in price and product value.

Sharing These To WeChat Will Be Banned! Let's Check!

PENALTIES

WeChat adopts the stepwise penalty for violations. 

According to the regulations, these external links will be blocked immediately and the related account may also be sanctioned

The links which violate the rules for the first time can apply for unblock to recover access after modifying.

For which violate the rules more than once, they may pass the application after an observation period

If these links maliciously violate the rules, they will be permanently blocked or banned and other links posted by the related accounts are not allowed to be shared on WeChat. 

 

In the worst case scenario, the related accounts, domain names, IP addresses, and sharing interfaces will be permanently banned. 

COMMENTS

Many WeChat users leave comments about the news overwhelmingly welcomed the change, saying that they have been sick of these links and increasingly bombarded by unsolicited spam messages. 
 
Sharing These To WeChat Will Be Banned! Let's Check!

Sharing These To WeChat Will Be Banned! Let's Check!

Sharing These To WeChat Will Be Banned! Let's Check!

So glad to hear the news! Many people in my WeChat contacts haven’t talked to me for thousands of years but suddenly sent a link to ask a favor for a discount. 

Sharing These To WeChat Will Be Banned! Let's Check!

Thank god WeChat finally bans it! 

Sharing These To WeChat Will Be Banned! Let's Check!

That’s the most annoying thing! 

Sharing These To WeChat Will Be Banned! Let's Check!

They are not asking for a discount on price, they are asking for a discount on friendship. 

Share to let your friends know!

Sharing These To WeChat Will Be Banned! Let's Check!

 

SOURCE | 澎湃/TechNode

 

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