22. Advertising (this includes mining pools, gambling services, exchanges, shops, etc.) in others threads' is no longer allowed, including, but not limited to, in altcoin announcement threads. [8]
[8] - "Advertising spam is not allowed" - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/advertising-spam-is-not-allowed-718124
Advertising spam is not allowed, this includes mining pools, gambling services, exchanges, shops, etc. Mining pool ops should make a thread within the Mining section of Alt Currencies. Most OP's already link to pools available so advertising your pool is unnecessary and leads to too much spam. Exchanges, shops, gambling sites, etc, should make a thread in the Marketplace section of Alt Currencies.
Edit by mprep:
Edit by mprep:
You know what, time for a slight policy change:
After consulting and discussing with BadBear, I've decided that it's time to let people discuss a bit more freely about services. Although BadBear's earlier posts hinted that service posts are a "no go" on most cases, after contacting him a couple of days ago, I believe he has changed his thinking, possibly due to the community's opinion and suggestions (told you it would help
).
As per this shift, the following type of posts are now allowed in coin threads:
However, said rules only apply to those posts that ARE NOT large, distracting with images, or markup codes (lots of bold and colors) and other traits of an advertisement. If a post is considered an advertisement will be determined on case by case basis.
Post your suggestions and opinions regarding this rule and how it should be improved and it might get implemented.
After consulting and discussing with BadBear, I've decided that it's time to let people discuss a bit more freely about services. Although BadBear's earlier posts hinted that service posts are a "no go" on most cases, after contacting him a couple of days ago, I believe he has changed his thinking, possibly due to the community's opinion and suggestions (told you it would help
). As per this shift, the following type of posts are now allowed in coin threads:
- Posts about block explorers. ("Here is a new block explorer for this coin" type posts)
- If a service comes up in a disussion and directly related to the coin, it's allowed
- "We're up" messages for pools (if it's only once per thread)
- "This exchange added coin" type posts for exchanges (again, if it's only once per thread)
However, said rules only apply to those posts that ARE NOT large, distracting with images, or markup codes (lots of bold and colors) and other traits of an advertisement. If a post is considered an advertisement will be determined on case by case basis.
Post your suggestions and opinions regarding this rule and how it should be improved and it might get implemented.
I understand this affected your report accuracy (guess you reported each and every post), I personally wouldn't worry too much about it (though you're free to contact theymos about it)
theymos did talk about in the past about the accuracy percentage but from a quick search only found a post from hilariousandco about this:
I think theymos and other mods have stated 70% accuracy is still considered very good.
