Popular Post Andy Y Posted October 19, 2011 Popular Post Share Posted October 19, 2011 It seems to be an increasing occurrence that smaller suppliers, cottage industries and their like arrive on the forum and their first post is one of self-promotion. It is evident that little attention is paid to the forum rules and specifically: 6. Please do not post any content or links that serve to promote any goods, services, transaction or commercial entity that you have any involvement with until express permission is sought from the forum administrator. Although the forum is free to read, register and participate it is paid for by site supporters, sponsors and me and I feel it's particularly bad form to disregard the rule above where postings are made for commercial gain with disregard for common courtesies. I am keen that we support the cottage industry aspects of the hobby but we have to have some parameters in places to prevent abuse of the facility. All it takes is to email or PM me with a explanation, if the information to be given is likely to be of interest to or beneficial to the membership it is likely that consent to post the information will be given. If people can't be bothered to do that we will just bin the posts. Over time there have also been instances where some cottage industries feel they're doing the site a favour with their self-promotion and have been particularly ill-tempered when tackled when self-promotion goes beyond anything noteworthy or responding to questions. We do have mechanisms in place where provision of suitable platforms are available to businesses if they wish to contribute towards the running costs and I also seek to protect existing forum sponsors from competitors taking advantage of the site. 57 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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