Yeah, that''''s true. A lot of places don''''t appreciate someone "promoting" another site on their boards. And yes, one can advertise and promote something that is free and not a product per se.

"Spamming" is a term some people often use for such posts/threads especially/or when someone makes multiple threads on the same issue/topic, etc. (Although it''''s not classic "spam" as in "unsolicited commercial email.")

What is often considered rude on most sites is when people who aren''''t at least actively visible as participants on a site just pop in to do what I call "drive by spam"....they post, Drop a link and then one never sees them again. Whether it''''s shilling for a product for sale or for another site, that behavior is usually not considered cool. Obviously, that''''s not what you did here. But in other places, yeah people can be more territorial and a lot less polite in their objections.

Anyway, a sticky post has come out of this here and that''''s a good place for people to put their own sites or other sites they just think are cool. So that''''s a good outcome IMO.


I forget about the "D" bug here. Drop, Delete, De etc.....
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ummmm... actually i think that the sticky should be for people to post their sites link....

not any site that they like...

Ah, you are correct: it's just for people to post links to their own sites. That's cool. Gives people a heads' up and people who are interested can check out the sites. And it won't be cluttered with other stuff.

This has gone a little off topic....
When I first came here I felt anything BUT welcome
My first attempt at skinning was pitiful and I got flamed by a bunch of idiots in the comments.
After 2 weeks I decided to click on the message board link to see what it did (before that point I had never interacted with human (or alien) lifeforms via any electronic devices except for outlook and telephones) (i had never been on a forum) I had NO idea why the people on the message board kept getting mad at me. Everything I did or said seemed to be wrong in their eyes. They were completely cruel and it seemed as if they felt new users were a burden. I admit I did a few stupid things but that does not excuse the inappropiate behavior exibited by everyone when a new user comes along... So back to my story... After a couple of weeks my uploads began to improve as I began to master Photoshop but I tried to simply avoid the message board. Yet I was drawn back to it... I wish there had been a stickey post stating what all the message board slang means. (troll, spam, flaming, , Mod, Admin, Noob, Newbie, WC, SD, SDC, DX, WB, IP, proggie, app, e-blast, OD) I mean how are people like me supposed to know what those mean? (okey some of them are pretty easy but it took me a month to figure out noob ) Of course I got totally flamed when I attempted to ask what they meant (particularly spam and troll) because you all just thought I was asking to be a pain in the @$$. I always meant well but everything always went wrong... On my "dream stickey thread" there should also be a thing explaining message board edicit.
Reccently I finally clued in when Jafo told me to "lurk" But I still dont agree with him that my comments wern't helpful as 80% of them were true. ( ) We are kinda of in a stalemate right now.
If I was an Admin I would create a "spamming and advertising" forum for talkitive users (such as myself ) to play in. That way the real message board would be virtually spam free!
Overall I dont think Wincustomize is very joiner friendly but once you stick around for a while it can be really cool

observe the scattered "s
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There should be:
General Discussion, Help Discussion, Skinning Discussion, Spaming Discussion, Latin4567 Discussion, Anti Latin4567 Discussion

BTW:
CHeck my long post to posts up
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Funny, but I''m confused on some of it. I like havin you here Latin.
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Yeah Latin... I want you at my forum http://forum.wstaylor.net ... please come over there and spice things up... I asked Kona to invite you...

O ya she did a while ago
forgot about that

Kona's a he Latin!

woah woah
now they're fighting over me

Kona's a he Latin!

huh?

O ya she did a while ago

Kona is a guy. At least according to this: http://koasati.net/pix/alpha.php?alpha=k
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Reccently I finally clued in when Jafo told me to "lurk" But I still dont agree with him that my comments wern't helpful as 80% of them were true.

The problem was that help from the totally inept is dangerous....and absolutely NOT wanted when there are actual experts amongst our members who really DO help people.

My request to 'lurk' was so you could come to realize that almost everyone has some greater knowledge/expertise in one field or another than your average 12 year old, who actually requires parental consent to even be a member here.

I Deleted your 'help'/s as it/they was/were wrong.

Put simply, you are not qualified to help on most of the topics you attempted to, so please refrain.

k jafo
by the way i just registered on that forum
i think i will be king of the post anything thread hehehe
BTW: My birthday was last thursday so now I am 13

wooohooo... Happy Birthday Latin...

Kona is a guy. At least according to this:

Had no idea
I feel so stupid

help from the totally inept is dangerous

now lets not point any fingers... Jafo

Wow I've always wanted to put peoples names in bold when I "diminish" them just like Jafo does!!!

K
For any of you who thought Kona was a hot chick
welll.... sorry to burst your bubble

Uhoh better go back into lurk mode before i end up like this:
Note:
the guy with the stick is jafo
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Please lurk.

I bet 20 bucks he can't. easy money!

I've already been though puberty once, do I really have to suffer the whole thing again here?

Please lurk.

yes,
as long as you promise to quit skinning forever and swear your alegience to me... MUAHAHHAHAHAHAAHHAAHA

bet 20 bucks he can't. easy money!

OW
you just hit an exposed nerve ending