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Originally Posted by xLaborJames
Ok i understand this rule if its another forum that is direct competition but what if a webmasters runs a porn forum people can submit to and get traffic from? What if its totally unrelated to adult webmasters and brought up as a traffic resource? What if i made a mainstream forum and wanted to talk about it and how to increase users and revenue?
Cool or not cool?
Does it bring down the ban hammer?
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A lot of times it gets in the gray area. I tend to look at them on a case-by-case basis.
If it's a adult webmaster forum that's clearly in the "red" zone.
Forums geared towards the surfer, and as long as it's for marketing and for actually building sales, I can understand that.
Forums that target the surfer with the only point being giving away the ranch in content. I tend to treat the mega-content-giveaway forums like I treat warez or "cp" sites. They should all DIE!
Mainstream forums, hmmm... if someone was to mention a forum for something like design (Photoshop, Flash, etc.), or programming (php, MySQL, vBulletin, etc.), I don't think I would have any serious problem with that either.
Bottom line is, I don't just start swinging the ban hammer any time I see the word "forum".
