Other forums on gfy being mentioned

ban hammer

texas dreams will period all over you if you do that...

so go ahead, give it a whirl...

For me it's not cool. However, it will always depends on the admin's discretion.

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".

Thanks for the reply TD, and clarifying things a bit for me. I know stuff like outside board promotion really probably comes down to a case by case basis and it was a topic I was always curious about.

What about if the forum was just being advertised as one line (or less) in a sig?