An unnamed petsite sometimes also does events where things randomly pop out on the site, like Halloween pumpkins or birthday balloons. There, however, is a very clear rule that anyone posting images which look like you have a floating item to click will have their account banned until the end of the event.

I've already seen an ad which looked like there was a flower to collect.

https://subeta.net/help/rules.php?act=rule&id=66 there is a rule for this tho

saying that, staff need to approve billboards, so idk. what you saw might not have been considered enough of a scam. the advice below is also what i do, but i just wanted to point out there is a rule for this. i do think that banning someone is pretty heavy handed for a billboard goof tho.

You can use the custom css code to move all floating items to the top left corner so you know for sure it is collectable. I can see though how billboard wise that is annoying but I don't think a ban from the event is the way to go.

I would say banning someone for the rest of the event is highly extreme of a punishment. I could see just removing the billboard, refunding the user, and giving them a heads up on ways to improve their billboard so that it doesn't look just like a floater.

But honestly...yeah, like Permanent suggests, you can use CSS to always put floaters in the top left corner of the layout. I don't think the billboards in question are really breaking the rule imo, but what do i know.

i don't think billboards using floating item images are doing anything wrong or trying to trick anyone. everyone kind of knows that's a thing people do, and you can tell it's a billboard because of its placement and the fact that it usually has the person's holiday link next to it. plus, as mentioned, most users have the custom CSS to move floating items to a fixed position so we don't have to wonder where to look for them—which is this, btw:

.floating_item { position:fixed !important; left:20px !important; top:7px !important; z-index:999 !important; margin: 0px !important; } .floating_item img { box-shadow: 0 3px 6px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.5) !important; }