Other forums on gfy being mentioned
 

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?

ban hammer

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

so go ahead, give it a whirl... :thumbsup

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! :mad:

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?