Well unsurprisingly after posting that I had 23 deleted posts. Shocking.
So, here's what I can gather:
From a few pages back, someone asked this (paraphrased) scenario:
User CoinDev starts a thread for his coin. Lots of people post.
User CoinMiner posts in the thread, "Hey, we can mine this at superpool.org and trade it at coinexchange.com!"
That is considered advertising spam, even though CoinMiner has nothing to do with those organizations.
I presume then that you mods are diligently working at removing any mention of "Lets get our coin on Cryptsy!" and "Go vote to get us on Mintpal!" and "Dude we just broke 3 BTC volume over on Bittrex!" posts right? I would surely hope so. Because if you aren't, exchange and pool operators may be forced to make alternate accounts and post in these threads as excited users who are talking about their coins.
Seriously. It was mentioned (I may be wrong, I scanned the first 5 pages, didnt see it, and have work to do tonight, so going off memory) that UnrelatedUser can NOT tell a coin's thread that the coin has been listed somewhere.
If it is NOT allowed, please go remove those posts.
If it IS allowed, well, IP addresses are easy to come by.
And, if, as you stated above, posts may be removed by indirectly referencing a service or product offered, and by being off topic, this post should also immediately be removed:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3005830It's off topic, as it's talking about domain name registration, and is quite directly referencing Burger King. After reading that post, I want a burger, because that was very clearly advertising.
If anyone wants to step up and point out how absolutely absurd that is, go for it. But, by the rules posted here (and given their changing and not-clearly-defined nature, as well as being completely inconsistently applied), that post should be removed. Its off topic, and it's advertising.
And if its NOT advertising, I'm making a new account, and posting in threads about how I like AllCrypt.com, it's a well built exchange.
Which is it? Because you can't have both under the rules you just outlined.