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PM Advertising
- Thread starter Randy
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I've PM Advertised years back on a large forum, but I haven't PM Advertised since. I dislike breaking other forums' rules whilst advertising. I've been PM Advertised to only once. I simply reported the PM and moved on with my life. Being the administrator at my own forum, I'm the last person an advertiser would want to advertise to, through any method. If I do find out that someone is PM Advertising, it's an automatic removal of PM rights. I don't tolerate PM Advertisement in general.
I've sort of done it in the past, but asking members for post exchanges rather then ''please join my forum'', I also sort of asked someone if they would like to be staff on my forum once by PM.
Haven't done any PM advertising whatsoever though in a long time.
Haven't done any PM advertising whatsoever though in a long time.
Ive never PM advertised, because i dont want to get banned.
If a forum allowed advertising, it would be more effective to advertise in threads, in the open. PM advertising seems like a sneaky way to get behind the rules and clog up people's inboxes. I've never done it but I know a few forums which allow it, and you always get these really ridiculous emails about buying land in South Africa.
PM advertising has been against the rules on every forum I have ran (including this one). I think we see enough advertisements in our daily lives. Even on the forums we go to, perhaps their is an ad banner on the top and bottom of the forum or those horrid text link advertisement things (where you mouse over a word and a little bubble pops open with an advert).
I think being bombarded with advertisements in our private messages is pushing it a little too far.
I think being bombarded with advertisements in our private messages is pushing it a little too far.
It gives the possibility that another member will go to their forum over ours on a given occasion and when you are trying to grow it becomes a huge burden. Also I consider all PM advertising to be spamming, I used to do it when I was younger like three years ago but I don't anymore.
I don't like pm advertising--as a rule, and as an admin (here, FA, The Island) I was bound by the rules of the forum to not allow it. However, if I were having a pm conversation with Nebulous, for example, on another forum and he said something like hey, I'm opening a new forum, check it out I wouldn't mind, because we are friends. A mass pm to everyone on the forum--that's not really a good thing....
I have never PM advertised, but I have had people PM advertise me with things like, please join my forum. Here's the link. Yes, it is unnerving, but I just forward the PM to the administrator and just move on with my life. It's nothing to get worked up over, as it happens. Although sometimes this is why I have PMs turned off on some forums so this never happens, though.
