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It is not proper etiquette to join a forum simply to advertise your own website. One would have thought that this did not need to be said, but apparently it does.
Disney Pinventory said:I have been a member of DPF for many years, although I wish to remain anonymous temporarily for reasons I will release later. For those of you who do know who I am, please respect my wishes to remain anonymous for the time being.
Well PTDB is one of the mod’s pet projects, so obviously it gets to ignore the rules.With the animosity to PinPics this year and the only thread staying being PTD . . . I am getting the feeling that something is wrong.
I saw some Disney news this morning that I wanted to share with fellow fans here. Instead of being able to post a link to a story about it in a relevant thread so that everyone could enjoy it and discuss it together, I had to send a private message to a couple people and we’ll have to discuss it alone.
I’m very sad about this.
Which, if granted, makes the rules moot.... Certainly not suspicious at all that PTDB has some measure of an exception....If PTDB asked and received permission (per info posted in another thread) to have their post (outside of this thread), I am submitting the same approval be extended to all pin databases listed above.
Sadly, this new set of rules affects a lot more than just some self-promotion. The majority of links shared here don't have anything at all to do with self-promotion. It's just throwing the baby out with the bathwater. They could have a rule about self-promotion without passing a rule about every link ever posted. Let's hope that the mod team answers back here, because this is just so sad. I'm in a blue funk about it today.Hello I'm newer to the forums but I am a part of many other online communities.
It can be frustrating when someone joins a community just to self-promote their own project, and is often considered rude. However, often tools or content created can be something useful for the entire community. One of the best solutions I have seen is if you want to post content you have yourself created, you must also participate in the community. For example, make ten community posts for everyone self promotion post. Or have been in the community a certain amount of time first and made a certain number of posts. That way the community benefits from your discussion and presence as a fan, you benefit from sharing your project but aren't just advertising, and the community benefits from your project and knows you aren't just dropping your link and running. I would like to recommend a similar solution, as I would like to see all the solutions to the "pin cataloging problem" that other pins fans can create, whether it's blogs, websites, videos, podcasts, or other database sites.
I want to discuss pins on the forums, wherever they may be listed, and link what I find here! Personally I'd prefer no rules - of someone has made a site or likes a site, as long as it has no malware and it is related to pins, I'd like it to be allowed to simply be posted.
Good luck making a decision about how to fairly decide what may be allowed to be self-promoted here, to balance self-promotion with benefit to the community!
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