Thanks guys for the information on the referral links being against forum rules. Did not notice that when reading over them. As far as what bl4nkcode said, it seems like there are some exceptions if the user is serious about creating a business with them or not spamming, but only in certain cases it seems like when it’s apparent it’s not for spam or misleading people.

I was putting a lot of work into building an affiliate marketing network of people and companies and was planning on actually creating a website soon based on affiliate marketing. Right now I was just in the beginning stages of building the business, so not sure if I was going to make it a full fledged registered company or just make money on the side as as a sole proprietor at this point. I will check with the moderators and see if they can restore my thread as it was an actual business I was running on affiliate marketing, not just some random links. Hopefully they will restore it.