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trevelyan -

If a site is covered with Google advertisements and is just looking for traffic I'm happy to have
them pay Roddy for the privilege of spamming me.



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roddy -

Very kind of you, sir!

However, this isn't a paid thing - it's about people (who may or may not pay for advertising in
another form) using the forums to attempt to attract customers or eyeballs. Actual paid
advertising is another issue.

The signature idea, incidentally, I don't like as value for money would then be associated with
the number of posts you made, which isn't a guarantee of quality posting.










wushijiao -



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Then everyone is exposed to lots of irrelevant text

Good point. Just wanted Roddy to get rich or die tryin'!










roddy -

Thanks for all the comments. What's I'm currently discussing with a couple of firms is having
designated 'commercial' members, who'd be clearly identified via username / avatar / signature
posting on a regular basis in their area of expertise. For example a Chinese school might have one
of their teachers post answers to the various 'how do I say / use X' questions. I can't see any
problem with this - we get the added value of the answers, school gets a bit more exposure.
Quality of posts would be monitored, and quantity would be controlled. Thoughts on that welcome.
It's nothing that couldn't have happened previously - I would never have objected to people doing
this - but now I'm going to firms saying something along the lines of 'You want to get your name
on the forums? Then you need to . . . .' and putting it on a more concrete basis.










tokyo_girl -

Every time I come back here the site is bigger and more active!
It's been a while since I have been ehre, and am probably not really qualified to comment
anymore....
but...
FWIW....
I see beneifts for the readership with this kind of commercial post.
The quality of the info should be good - if not presumably they will not be alowed to continue
posting. Furthermore, the fact that it is clearly identified as commercial means that people don't
need to have their scepticism antena so fine tuned. It also gives exposure to businesses that are
in all probablility legit.
So long as quality of posts is maintained and it's not obtrusive advertising, it sounds win-win to
me...
:-)










roddy -

Stick around and make it biggerer and more activerer

Good to see you still dropping in, thanks for your thoughts.










tokyo_girl -














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