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*]

Okay, I don't think anywhere I said that your being a bad judge of character. I think its fine if you want to voice out your opinion and everything. Fine by me, everyone has to do it sometime. Leniency is fine to a certain extenet. Some other people did post in there that it could be advertising.

-shrugs- I know you were on staff, I've had people PMing me about it for the past hour.

But I'm just going to drop this for now, I don't feel like dealing with it personally. Its not really my part of the forum to really be in the middle of. If something out of this goes further I'll come back though. And I'll read everyones reply and think about them because I enjoy doing that.

But for now I'm going back to myspace forums, or go post somewhere else.

[Spirited Away]

Okay, I don't think anywhere I said that your being a bad judge of character. I think its fine if you want to voice out your opinion and everything. Fine by me, everyone has to do it sometime. Leniency is fine to a certain extenet. Some other people did post in there that it could be advertising.
-shrugs- I know you were on staff, I've had people PMing me about it for the past hour.
But I'm just going to drop this for now, I don't feel like dealing with it personally. Its not really my part of the forum to really be in the middle of. If something out of this goes further I'll come back though. And I'll read everyones reply and think about them because I enjoy doing that.
But for now I'm going back to myspace forums, or go post somewhere else.

I just guesstimated where you were going with the "you haven't been around much". It would have been okay though, because not being around does make me a little blind to how people are.

I don't know Brenden at all and if you say he's a good mod, then he must be. I just didn't agree with the censor. I was about to check for the link when it was taken out and the reason was advertisement... and that irked me.

Dani, I'm just as confounded as you are, but I didn't think the line should be drawn off at "save the la mesa". I suppose links that intend to persuade people to make a purchase would definitely be advertising.


Edit: Wow, you did your research.