The Really Important Rules

The Most Important Thing of All: By submitting your blog post to be included in e[lust], you are agreeing to follow these rules.

Rule #1: You Must Re-post e[lust] on Your Site

You must post the edition that your post is included in within 7 days of its publication (usually the 22nd) and must remain posted on your blog permanently. You must keep every edition permanently; replacing one with the most current is breaking the rules. This must be a *new post* and not a page, not a temporary widget in your sidebar. You should create a new post, do not amend your old post that was submitted to include the links. If you’re found to be late, we’ll let you know. If you still don’t post it in a timely manner, then all participants will be instructed to remove your post link from the digest on their site OR you will not be allowed to participate in future editions until you post the digest you were late on. The route taken on this is at the discretion of the editor. It could be both. It’s not hurting me/e[lust], your inaction in re-posting hurts everyone else who participated in the edition. They published it with your link – this is a community effort and it only works if treated as such.

Rule #2 – You Must Publish the Full Digest

You may, however, use the “read more” tag after the top portion (this is noted within the edition). In WordPress’s editor this is included as an icon that looks like two boxes separated by a dashed line. For blogspot, bloggers will need to do a one-time edit of their css code to be able to use the “read more” tag. HERE is a very easy 4-step explanation (with screenshots) on how to do this. If you still have questions, feel free to email us at questions.e.lust@nospamgmail.com.

Rule #3 – You Cannot Alter the Digest

As soon as each edition publishes, the sidebar is updated with a link directly to a text file containing the raw html code to aid in publishing. You can also just simply copy and paste it from the website. The important thing though is that you cannot alter the digest – meaning, you cannot remove a certain someone’s link (unless directed to do so by me) and if publishing the included photo, you must not change the embedded link in the photo or remove the “courtesy of” link. To do so would be a violation of the copyright of the owner of the photo and just generally uncool blogging practice. It doesn’t matter if you don’t personally like a participant, removing links from the digest on your own will result in YOU being removed from the digest and banned from participating.

There ARE guidelines and limitations on what types of posts will be accepted for inclusion.

~ Your post must contain mostly original content. This means it can’t be a re-posting of something that has already appeared on someone else’s site, written by someone else.

~ Your post may not contain solely a photo or audio/video clip. If a reasonable amount (i.e. more than a short paragraph or two) of original content writing is accompanied by a photo or clip, then it will be accepted.

~ No product review posts. Every digest will have a link to the previous edition of Pleasurists, which is a round-up of adult product reviews. I encourage you to submit your review posts to Pleasurists once per week

~ Your post must have been published on your blog during the time period listed on the request for submissions post.

~ One submission per blog per digest. Previously e[lust] accepted multiple submissions for multi-author sites, but effective May 12, 2011 this is no longer the rule and it will be one post per site.

~ No commercial content or commercial blogs/sites. If you have a question on what exactly falls into that tag, just ask me or check out the updated FAQ page

~ When filling out the submission form, you must include a valid email address in the submission form; also you must include the direct link to your post, not just to your blog’s main page (by clicking on the title of your post from your main page you’ll be taken to the post’s direct link).