https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/rules-for-serious-discussion-and-ivory-tower-2722359
If advertising of any kind is not allowed in this Serious discussion section, then why is there advertising on EVERY thread here?
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These two sections are for serious discussion.
- When you post, you must have a clear point. If you ramble on about nothing, then your post will be deleted.
- You must stay fairly close to the topic being discussed in each thread.
- While some amount of error is difficult to avoid, if your English is so broken that you sound stupid, then your post will be deleted.
- No advertising of any kind.
- Signatures are not displayed.
- You must be at least a Jr Member to post in Serious Discussion, and a Full Member to post in Ivory Tower.
- Posts in Serious Discussion only activate a potential-activity period. They do not increase your post count.
- Posts in Ivory Tower neither activate a potential-activity period nor increase your post count.
Repeated violations of the rules will result in you being banned from the forum as a whole.
Humor is OK as long as it has a point. Any topic of conversation is allowed here, including altcoin talk, except:
- If you want a response from forum administration, meta talk goes in Meta.
- Altcoin talk that is advertisement/pump is not allowed, since no advertisement is allowed here.
- Stuff globally disallowed/restricted (eg. Investigations content) is not allowed.
- When you post, you must have a clear point. If you ramble on about nothing, then your post will be deleted.
- You must stay fairly close to the topic being discussed in each thread.
- While some amount of error is difficult to avoid, if your English is so broken that you sound stupid, then your post will be deleted.
- No advertising of any kind.
- Signatures are not displayed.
- You must be at least a Jr Member to post in Serious Discussion, and a Full Member to post in Ivory Tower.
- Posts in Serious Discussion only activate a potential-activity period. They do not increase your post count.
- Posts in Ivory Tower neither activate a potential-activity period nor increase your post count.
Repeated violations of the rules will result in you being banned from the forum as a whole.
Humor is OK as long as it has a point. Any topic of conversation is allowed here, including altcoin talk, except:
- If you want a response from forum administration, meta talk goes in Meta.
- Altcoin talk that is advertisement/pump is not allowed, since no advertisement is allowed here.
- Stuff globally disallowed/restricted (eg. Investigations content) is not allowed.
If advertising of any kind is not allowed in this Serious discussion section, then why is there advertising on EVERY thread here?
Because the rules that were set forth for this section were created for members of the forum to follow; not for the forum itself to adhere to. It's meant to inform members that they cannot advertise anything, such as sales or personal websites or whatever, which is why signatures are disabled for this board. But it doesn't mean that forum advertisements should be removed. The board relies on payments from advertisements to pay for servers, bandwidth, and to remain operational. If the Serious discussion and Ivory Tower boards weren't monetized at all, would you pay a small subscription to be able to post here? Would you rather have a premium model? Because that would be the alternative to having the forum ads removed from these boards.
I personally don't have any issue with the ads that are displayed under the top post, and I don't feel that it's breaking any rules. Because, again, the rule is directed towards forum members, not staff and operations.
I was thinking more along the lines of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNKAnPHtjic.
