What happened to discrepancy?, the posting of links Options

[Spirited Away]

Why I'm here.

The Community Guideline states:
ADVERTISING
Starting a topic for the sole purpose of advertising is not allowed. You may not solicit via Private Message. Signatures may only contain references and links to personal pages, such as your blogs and profiles; references and links to anything that is not personal, such as websites and forums are not allowed.

"Strictly" following the rules would mean any link posted in debate or news means spam/advertising. Yet it is argued by another member, E-Man, that such links are "allowed because it is [a] source [that] is not advertising or promoting a certain cause or company. You are simply citing where you got your facts or story from." However, that is deviating from the community guideline rule itself, and not "strictly" following.

According the definition agreed by iRock cB, if a link is posted so that it would provide information for a cause, it would be okay. So why is the topic "save the la mesa" censored even after I explained that it could be means for providing information?

I remember clearly that Jusun meant for staff to be lenient in the lounge, but what happened to that proposed leniency by the leader of this community?

[*This Confession*]

Actually its funny how you actually posted this, because mods are discussing on making a new form of advertising. And IrockcB made the topic talking about it.

Anyway, I really don't have a problem with that topic. I was thinking it would have been like a debate topic so I avoided it til' tonight. I think it would have been better off in news in the first place then the lounge. It was a problem in his own community and the link to help him would have been fine to have in news.

I guess it could be considered advertising in a way, hes kind of begging for signatures and posting it in the forum could perhaps be advertising or spam -shrugs-

I think were going to change the wording around in the advertising thing, so a form of advertising is for a business or something. But if it is for a cause or something news related to go along with the topic for the news forum only. Then its fine to have the link.
Its for a good cause I suppose, so it should just be in news.

Maybe change the rules of the news for good causes and news type things.


Mostly, since you only pretty much directed it to looking down on IrockCB you could have put that part in the moderator performance.


I thought this was in feedback not by-laws