I'd originally asked this over in the Forum Rules and Features section a month ago,
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=86656
but Polls and Surveys might be a better place to ask this, given the lack of response to the original.
Since ads are being posted and left alone more and more around the discussion forums, should we simply change the rule against doing this,
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=152
and allow them everywhere, (possibly even eliminating the Online Market section as it would no longer be needed)?
Or should the existing rule against posting ads outside the Online Market section be enforced?
Or should selective enforcement continue, and under what terms? (who should be allowed to post them in discussion areas, and who should not?)
Presently this is the existing rule, as stated within the Forum Rules:
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=86656
in a few places:
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=86656
but Polls and Surveys might be a better place to ask this, given the lack of response to the original.
Since ads are being posted and left alone more and more around the discussion forums, should we simply change the rule against doing this,
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=152
and allow them everywhere, (possibly even eliminating the Online Market section as it would no longer be needed)?
Or should the existing rule against posting ads outside the Online Market section be enforced?
Or should selective enforcement continue, and under what terms? (who should be allowed to post them in discussion areas, and who should not?)
Presently this is the existing rule, as stated within the Forum Rules:
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=86656
in a few places:
2. Please keep all advertisements for items which are relevant to these forums in the Online Market section http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=23 (clarification: all ads of any kind must go in the Online Market, in the Items For Sale - New / - Used sections. If it's discussing or promoting a product you or your company sells, it's an ad, and can't be posted in the discussion areas).
DON'T post for sale or wanted "ads" in the Forums - Use the Buying and Sellling Section ONLY
All threads regarding money, wanting and/ or selling of goods must be in the online market.
* You buy and sell at your own risk
* If it's discussing or promoting a product you or your company sells, it's an ad, and can't be posted in the discussion areas.
DON'T post SPAM about your website, business, eBay ads, or Endless Sphere classified ads (all ads of any kind must go in the Online Market, in the Items For Sale - New / - Used sections. If it's discussing or promoting a product you or your company sells, it's an ad, and can't be posted in the discussion areas).