by Lovethola » 05 Jun 2020, 03:23
There are two issues when it comes to this sort of thing.
Firstly if users are getting something in return, they are not going to be fully truthful. If you are promoting a site wanting users to sign up and help you earn more, you are going to make it sound good, exaggerate a bit and fail to mention any negatives or selected negatives about the site. This causes alot of bad websites being portrayed as being good and misleading people and therefore wasting users time and devaluing this section.
Secondly, it is hard to define what is a good and detailed thread. Is it a truthful one, a long copy and paste ad or something short but informative. It will be hard for us to draw a consistent line and enforce something that is pretty vague.
We have a section dedicated for ads so it just seems logical to put them all in one forum and leave this section to normal discussions minus the ads. If you look at this forum at the moment, there is so many ads and it doesn't make this section high quality. Active yes but quality no. It is only recently that this has become an issue and after we allowed a few users to post, a truckload of other topics flooded in. The enforcing of an exisiting rule will not stop quality posts in this forum, it will help make them more visible. It stops them being hidden by topics promoting every new badly made PTC site on Buxhost that will not last more then a few months. We are not stopping users promoting, we are simply getting users to promote where they should and not where they shouldn't. The only different thing now is that you have to open a new topic in another section.
There are two issues when it comes to this sort of thing.
Firstly if users are getting something in return, they are not going to be fully truthful. If you are promoting a site wanting users to sign up and help you earn more, you are going to make it sound good, exaggerate a bit and fail to mention any negatives or selected negatives about the site. This causes alot of bad websites being portrayed as being good and misleading people and therefore wasting users time and devaluing this section.
Secondly, it is hard to define what is a good and detailed thread. Is it a truthful one, a long copy and paste ad or something short but informative. It will be hard for us to draw a consistent line and enforce something that is pretty vague.
We have a section dedicated for ads so it just seems logical to put them all in one forum and leave this section to normal discussions minus the ads. If you look at this forum at the moment, there is so many ads and it doesn't make this section high quality. Active yes but quality no. It is only recently that this has become an issue and after we allowed a few users to post, a truckload of other topics flooded in. The enforcing of an exisiting rule will not stop quality posts in this forum, it will help make them more visible. It stops them being hidden by topics promoting every new badly made PTC site on Buxhost that will not last more then a few months. We are not stopping users promoting, we are simply getting users to promote where they should and not where they shouldn't. The only different thing now is that you have to open a new topic in another section.
