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Members' products advertising

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:20 pm
by VladSun
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...

Re: Members' products advertising

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:49 pm
by pickle
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?

Re: Members' products advertising

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:01 pm
by VladSun
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.

Re: Members' products advertising

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:16 pm
by Weirdan
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)?
In fact open-source advertising is allowed (in form of press-releases in General Discussion forum).
Forum rules wrote: 14.3 [...] An open source business may post press releases in the General Discussion forum, and only that forum.

Re: Members' products advertising

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:47 am
by VladSun
Ah! OK, thanks :)

Re: Members' products advertising

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:54 am
by papa
I also think it's interesting to see what the members here are doing when not writing in the forum. :)

Re: Members' products advertising

Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 7:01 pm
by josh
Share their project or ask for critique... yes (must be written in PHP)

Advertise... no... (except open source stuff)