As long as participants are following the rules as posted below
Participant Requirements:
- You must be aware of and comply with the rules for participating in subscription campaigns
- Make a minimum of 20 constructive posts per week
- Removing the signature leads to disqualification
- The link in the signature must remain correct and unchanged
- Excluded boards (WO & Serious, Sig Threads, Press, Politics, Games, Off-topic, Bounty)
they should pay participants. Companies are allowed to add or remove rules, but usually if a rule is being added or taken away they post the rule change and it takes effect on the next pay period. They also need to state what will constitute violating their rules, if it's not posted(within reason) then they cannot ding a participant for breaking a rule.
It was pretty obvious that the excluded participants may have defaulted and if the CM's assessment says so, he's definitely reserved with the right to exclude these participants.
Besides, only the CM is reserved with the right to decide on which post is eligible for payment and which is ineligible for payment, so those that weren't paid may have definitely had some ineligible posts which couldn't add up to make up for the activities/posts (20) required for payment.
The terms of the manager's assessment has to be know clearly by the participants. If there are prohibited topics, they need to be clearly stated in the opening thread. Also when you purchase a users signature, you do not buy their posting rights, so they can still post where they want as long as they provide the required 20 or 30 posts for the campaign, what you do as a manager is count the eligible posts and pay based on that.
The manager does reserve the rights to exclude members, but this in fairness has to be done in a transparent manner. Participants shouldn't be on edge, wondering which rule they are unaware of that they may have broken. Clear communication of expectation is very important.
This is 100% correct. They just need to exclude posts that are in restricted sections or whatnot, not ban a person for posting in said restricted section.
Overall, they need to hire a manager and spend a few bucks to let someone with experience manage the campaign since they are not well versed on how it's done properly.