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.
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.
You asking me? Hell if I know! But how could they not be under this rule... one can just easily say it's paid advertising, an alt account, whatever. So there's really no way to distinguish between a genuine post versus a paid advert.
