Advertising is a fact of life. As professional photographers we are all aware of the need to promote our services. Certain free services (such as this forum) wouldn't exisit with out it (ie the iPhotos/2fields banner ad at the top of this page). With that in mind we need to ensure that advertising is controlled and not intrusive to this forum.
- We have set up a subforum under "Everything Else" called "Notice Board"
- This is the ONLY place that advert topics may be posted.
- Everyone can read that forum.
- Posting to the noticeboard forum controlled as follows: only members who have made more than 10 posts here may post items to the noticeboard. (This is controlled automatically).
- Multiple posts advertising the same service will be removed.
- Posts on the notice board will be deleted (automatically) after one month.
The above approach permits established members to promote themselves and any other services they offer. It also permits the member to member "item for sale" type of advert, and the notification of events. Those type of adverts can actually benefit members here. By adding the restrictions it stops the spam type of posting where someone joins just to be able to post spam adverts.
Graphical banner ads in members signatures are not permitted. However a simple text link ad in persons signature is permitted.
Eg http://www.2fields.co.uk/ (Internet Services)
