How do you feel about having a section (or permission to post in particular sections) where active members (e.g. count(posts) > 500, or 1000, or 1500, ... ) may advertise their *own* products (especially if they are open source products)?
I think most of us are either freelancers, or small business owners and advertising is very important to us...
Members' products advertising
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Members' products advertising
Last edited by VladSun on Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Members' products advertising
Can you put a poll up? If enough members think it's a good idea, I don't think the mods will have a problem with making a section dedicated to project advertising. I'm not sure if we can limit it to members with > 500 (for example) posts. Maybe if we had a manual process where members have to ask permission?
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
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OK, I've put a poll up. I know that site admins of this forum tend to stay away from forum mods, so probably a PM-ed permission asking would be a better idea.
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Re: Members' products advertising
In fact open-source advertising is allowed (in form of press-releases in General Discussion forum).VladSun wrote:How do you feel about having a section (or permission to post in particular sections) where active members (e.g. count(posts) > 500, or 1000, or 1500, ... ) may advertise their *own* products (especially if they are open source products)?
Forum rules wrote: 14.3 [...] An open source business may post press releases in the General Discussion forum, and only that forum.
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Ah! OK, thanks 
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I also think it's interesting to see what the members here are doing when not writing in the forum. 
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Share their project or ask for critique... yes (must be written in PHP)
Advertise... no... (except open source stuff)
Advertise... no... (except open source stuff)