An example of why this rule was desperately needed: http://imgur.com/7IY0ows
It's still unreasonable snce you don't minimise the restriction to only permit such posts. The posts in your picture are clearly only intended to advertise a pool. They use glossy colors, bold letters, urls, and bold formatting. They're there only to draw attention and end up taking space in posts and end up making discussion harder.
A one line post to update the status of a pool is nothing like that. Just a damn regular post. I can't get why pool OPs would be banned for such a post.
Right. Which is why we'll now begin to see the coin devs posting it for them as MineP.it pointed out. Not saying coin devs taking bribes... but if a pool op offered a few coins to have them post in the thread... is that fair?
Whatever angle you look at it from it's bullshit really.
Further mining centralization for the big pools, dev's have more work to do (especially at launch when they're busy enough as it is), miners have less information and will have less updates regarding pool operations.
If a user from MineP.it came on instead of me and posted that we had a pool running - would they be banned too?
What if someone posted that xxxxxxpool was offline? Would that result in a banning?
It's all so vague and tbh I'm nervous posting anything at all now incase I'm banned for saying something that could be construed as an advertisement.
