Squanto wrote:
Well, it's a holdover from the old boards. We didn't allow people to just join up to pimp their personal websites or blogs. Those posts were deleted, and users disabled for TOS violations. Had this been the old boards, you would never have seen these posts.
Chris Roy was given special consideration as he was working with one of the few sites that covered the Portland Pirates, which obviously related directly to the Sabres. I recall that he asked for and was given permission, but I think that is before my mod days, so I can't really say for sure.
When your only posts on a board are quotes and links back to your personal blogs, it's called blogspamming. It's done to increase your search engine rankings mostly, but in the webhosting world it's also a form of traffic theft. User searches for something, the link off this website comes up. User clicks on it, loads this page, using the bandwidth that XC pays for. Then user clicks link to go to the blog, which is monetized up the ass with ads, and that person gets paid for the traffic, not XC. It's generally frowned upon.
We're just hoping that Patrick will contribute more to this site that just trying to drive traffic to his website.
Ah, a very thorough answer, thanks squantaroni.
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