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Advertising by e-mail, PM or IM
Topic Started: Feb 13 2006, 07:30 PM (666 Views)
Jesse Kilmartin
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Okay sorry if there is already a topic for this but I am really annoyed.


This is not the only board where members or guests search through the lists and bother members with their advertisings. That happens to me three times this day (not only at this board, here it was just one) but what is that for a behavior? At another board where I'm a member of, one person just registered to advertise her board to any other member. I got e-mails, PMs and IMs because of this. And this sucks. I am patient, very patient but this is too much.


What do others think about this and is there a way to avoid this because slowly I really have enough of this.
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Mardat
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I have a strict no advertising policy on my forum. Any member who recieves a IM, PM or E-mail from another member asking them to join a site is to report it to myself, or the other admins. The person caught doing so is banned.
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C.J. Kane
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I have a specified place on each of my boards except for my newest one to advertise boards/websites/online blogs. Any other way to advertise isn't allowed. I feel it is nasty to join a board just so you have a place to advertise your board or website, unless you know the owner personally.
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GeoffJ
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Well IM is different so you can't mess with that but yes it does get annoying and i don't want to be a hypocrite but i've done it before not today but i have done it in the past, Read the Rules and just contact an admin or mod or staff member and give them their name and whala and also on other boards that's between them so complain to those boards.

Anyways Cheers,
GreenG :)
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trumpetplayer92
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i get a lot of those too. i just put them on my blocking list and foward the messege to someone with power. onece or twice the peopl actually got banned for it i liked that
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GeoffJ
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If people like that wolud read the ules it says only in your signiture.
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Jesse Kilmartin
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Right, GreenG but only at this board and some people do ignore this. But what is with other boards?

Yeah they have their advertising forums but I made (unfortunately) the experiences that some members prever the way to bother others with e-mails and so one because they think people would react more to this way.

A topic you can ignore but you pay more attention to an e-mail, PM and so one.
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Sam-ZNS
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If someone advertises via PM on this forum, forward the PM to a Community Moderator. We'll take care of it. What we do depends on whether the person has already been warned for it, or just joined and didn't quite read the rules closely enough. :)

Advertising on *my* forum is a very bad idea, but I'm much more leniant here.
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Jesse Kilmartin
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Thanks Sam :) I have deleted those PMs I got (it's kinda used to me) but the next one I will foward to an admin or mod. And I will do my best to avoid such uhhhh behavior at my boards.
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GeoffJ
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About the other boards yeah you have to tell the admin there hopefully they'll take action but if not just ignore it there's nothing else you can do.
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Warren262
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I looked through my email logs and someone sent an email to every member asking them to join their forum. I have gave them a huge warning, I almost was thinking about banning them.
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Starpaul20
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My system is simple: When you join on my forum, you can't PM or e-mail until you've made a set number of posts (10 posts if you're wondering).

Of course this doesn't stop a user from advertising in the forum but it's better than nothing.
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GeoffJ
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well if you see them advertising then you remove there advertised site and warn them then if they do it again same thing except warn and suspend for x amount of day/hours and if they still do it Ban Simple enough.
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Jesse Kilmartin
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I can do that on my own boards GreenG. I told other admis about that but *sighs* there are so many boards. And I think I'm not the only one who got this problem.
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GeoffJ
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Well to tell you the truth nobody can stop it the only thing you can do is tell your admin or staff member
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