Quote:1. Advertising via forum messages is strictly prohibited. If you need to advertise your products on our site, contact us via the feedback form and we will negotiate an advertising contract with you/your company.
Wow, rough crowd. Steimy and ddp, I refer you to a post from a fellow moderator:
Quote:If you have NOTHING nice to say OR helpfull to the person(s) asking, DO NOT REPLY.
C'mon guys, grow up! Seriously, I acknowledged in my post that I myself was unsure if posts selling items were allowed, so a simple, "pcguru83, these type of posts are not allowed" would have sufficed. It's really not necessary to insult the original poster. In addition, what I'm doing could hardly be construed as advertising. You would do this community a service by better wording the forum rules. The way the rules currently read makes it sound as if businesses which sell multiple products (as stated in the rules) are prohibited from "advertising" or attempting to sell their products.
I suppose I should have expected no less from a forum where the average age of most posters is 14 and common responses sound like "OmG uR sUCh a n00b! !@#$ Quite a shame since Afterdawn.com is such an awesome site. :-/
pcguru83, i'm probably old enough to be your father so don't piss me off as you will lose. you made the mistake of posting that post without reading the rules properly. it states clearly "you/your" so is as a single individual or as a company. it is advertising whether or not you think so. check in the dictionary for the meaning of advertisement
pcguru83
i was not trying to be mean. But after many years of helping people here it gets a bit old when everyone comes here and does not bother to even read the forum rules.
There are other forums out there that have a buy/sell/trade or auction section. Like teammodders.com or xtremesource.com
and of course the mentioned and well known Ebay.
These are great forums with very helpful people, the reason for that is because of the rules, and the fact that the moderators and senior members try to keep stressing them.
I have been on many other forums where they would actually have been very mean and insulting, and flamed you to no end for not following their rules.
