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Here is the deal, and it has been explained before but maybe not in one post.
If someone starts a thread like "where can I get X done" it is fine for people to list a place and mention their experience. This is not LS1Tech where doing even that will get you modded and/or banned.
It is not OK for someone to post about their own place or for someone to constantly hit the board with repeated recommendations for 'their friends place'. Business owners can pony up like our sponsors. Then they get to post about their shop, get mentioned in news letters, have banners & ads posted, etc. For anyone who is actually making money off our users we take the fairly simple stand - you have to pay to play. The upgraded server we just sprung for does not pay for itself.
It is not OK for someone to post spam, regardless of the content of said spam. It's one thing to post up a thread like "I just re-did my interior, look at these pics. I got my headliner and speaker grills were recovered by PlaceX in Sometown and they came out great." Simple, subtle, move along. Here there was nothing even interesting, not even some pics to back up the claims. It reads as pure in your face spam, in the damn lounge no less. IMO a giant **** you to the board. If this was the OP's first post he'd be perma-banned as a spammer and no one would blink.
It is not OK for someone to use PM to try to get around the rules to undercut our sponsors. We've had a number of users try that and in every case we caught them because eventually they hit a member who gets it and tells us.
So for us, it is a bit about context, a bit about personal interests, a bit about the degree, a bit about subtlety. We have to balance both member needs and what it takes to keep the lights on. There has been a bit of a learning curve on this in the past but that has been the line for a while now. Although this may be the 1st time it has been spelled out at once.
- NJFBOA Staff
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