has anyone thought about prohibiting self-promotional links of any kind or sort until the "new" member has like 100 posts?
it's quite one thing for a new member to turn up useful information - and a lot of that is best conveyed by posting a link vs. idiots like katie (another place) who thinks it's perfectly wonderful to cut and paste copyrighted materials into a forum "because since it's on the internet they meant to share it" - (no kidding - that's her "justification" . . . )
but this "Hi I think eggs and garlic is wonderful and _here's my site/blog_" really does not excite me.
now, true true true - it's gonna take a mod / admin to recognize a 'self-promotion' - but I'd vote for that TOS - and I am not bothered by participating members with self-promotional links in the sig/msgs.
it's a question of "are you participating or are you just here for the spamming?"
it's quite one thing for a new member to turn up useful information - and a lot of that is best conveyed by posting a link vs. idiots like katie (another place) who thinks it's perfectly wonderful to cut and paste copyrighted materials into a forum "because since it's on the internet they meant to share it" - (no kidding - that's her "justification" . . . )
but this "Hi I think eggs and garlic is wonderful and _here's my site/blog_" really does not excite me.
now, true true true - it's gonna take a mod / admin to recognize a 'self-promotion' - but I'd vote for that TOS - and I am not bothered by participating members with self-promotional links in the sig/msgs.
it's a question of "are you participating or are you just here for the spamming?"