Advertising vs Helpful Links Options

[visualfusion]

Now, I know that in the community guidelines for cB, there's the whole rule on advertising... but I think we need to redefine the definition of what is truely advertising, and what is actually a post of a helpful website.

Example 1: http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=82914
Now, I know this may at first seem like an advertising post, but if you think about it, it could actually help people, like me. Now, I've always been quite pissed off at Paypal's fee's and limitations if you don't want to pay those fees. If this new paying system could actually be of some use to me, now I have to spend all the time googling when I could've just clicked the link that was removed.

Example 2:
http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=82914
I don't see how my post about a compatability quiz is advertising, yet many of the posts in this topic are complaining about my topic being against the guidelines and is not allowed. I personally thought that the quiz was VERY helpful to my relationship and helped me realize some things (not many, but some) that I would have other wise would not have.

In both examples, what were percieved as advertisements, in my opinion, are actually helpful links/sites. I just want to bring this to everyone's attention. I'll add to the examples later when I have time to go through more posts.

And no, this does not go in Debate because the original intention of the post is not to debate, but to inform.

[visualfusion]

My topics were not closed. Wow, you didn't even read my topics. The only topic I created that was closed was the one on closing topics.

Oh, and while on the topic of breaking rules, your signature breaks the rules.

Signatures should not take up more than 300 pixels of vertical space (equivalent to 20 lines of text) and 573 pixels of horizontal space (to prevent from stretching). Signature images should be less than 100kB in filesize when combined. How you use the allotted space is entirely up to you.

why make a topic about what you consider a "helpful link" when you can put it in your sig (thats where it becomes useful) and if people want to go there then they will.

Well, making a topic reaches a larger audience because I'm sure some people don't bother reading signatures and just want to read the actual posts.