Venting

[D Haynes]

I just wanted to vent my frustration at having a post removed from a thread because it had an image that showed the name of a "competing" forum.

I find this to be incredibly petty behaviour.

A forum member asked for advice and I tried to give him some. I honestly can't see what harm could possibly come from giving this information.

To make things worse (in my opinion) is that we're censored by a faceless account that you can't answer to or ask questions of.

I've been here for 10 years and although I'm no expert I feel I've given to this community but incidents like this make me want to leave.

 

[Echo Mod Team]

Hello,

Sorry to hear about your frustration.

For clarity, you shared a screenshot containing a list of multiple competing forums/communities, which has been against the rules for over 2 decades.​

Here's the official rule for that:

1.29 (»). Do not advertise, publicize, or promote external domain-related forums or communities on NamePros. This includes linking to pages that directly promote them. The only exception to this rule is local events and meetups that are in person (face to face).

Note: While you did not link to them, your screenshot did technically publicize and promote multiple domain related forums and communities that compete with namePros.

namePros has always encouraged members to share domain related blog and news articles.​

Here's the official rules regarding that:

11. News Sections and News Posts (»)
11.1. News Posts: When posting a third-party's article (i.e., an article you do not own), you should use a title relevant to the article's original title. You must either include portions of the story as a quote or create a summary of its topic that is at least a paragraph in length. Rule 1.27 applies, and an embedded "Source" link to the article is suggested at the bottom. The linked article must contain original writing (e.g., spun content is not allowed).

11.2. News Sections: Original content should lackadaisically follow the NamePros Blog Publishers guidelines, but the requirements are less strict, e.g., a “News” post may be only a few sentences in length.

11.3. News Sections: It must be newsworthy, relevant, valuable, or interesting to the majority of members.

Note: Theres a difference between sharing domain related A) blog/news articles of educational information, data, experiences. etc. versus B) publicizing competing forums/communities.

A) Helps the community grow stronger (Together)
B) Promotes leaving the community (Separation)

At the end of the day, the rule may be slightly influenced by the goal of retention and growth, which all communities strive to do, not just namePros.

Moderators don't make the rules, they simply enforce them fairly, without playing favorites, regardless of a members status.

Again, we apologize for the frustration that enforcing that particular rule may have caused.

For internal use ONLY: https://www.namepros.com/threads/pl...arning-domain-investment.1343575/post-9320064

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

I've been here for 10 years

We appreciate you and hope you stay for another 10+ years.

 

[JB Lions]

We appreciate you and hope you stay for another 10+ years.

You missed this part:

“but incidents like this make me want to leave.”

I just touched on this in another post today.

Intent vs application

A lot of forums have those rules because they don’t want competing forums spamming to drive traffic to their site,

This wasn’t the case here, it was just somebody answering a question. This is an instance where I think the best route is to do nothing, or you’ll end up getting what you’re trying to prevent with that rule. People leaving. If you left that post alone, you wouldn’t have threads like this, it would do no harm to this forum. If you have confidence in what you have here, you won’t be sweating other forums

 

[D Haynes]

Thanks for the replies it is appreciated.

I get there are rules but is there really any danger of users leaving this forum for clearly inferior ones (unless you drive them there)? Surely people are able to frequent more than one forum and my intention wasn't to spam this one about another.

Also...

Why isn't this profile conversable? Rules are enforced and it seems the only way I can react is by starting a thread like this. The anonymous enforcer should be reachable.

Anyway the long and short of it is I believe there was an over enforcement of rules and I didn't agree with it. Is what it is.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Why isn't this profile conversable?

That’s a design decision by XenForo, not us.

There are many ways to contact us if you ever want to discuss something, including starting a thread like this.

We are all very accessible.

 

[bmugford]

Hello,

Sorry to hear about your frustration.

For clarity, you shared a screenshot containing a list of multiple competing forums/communities, which has been against the rules for over 2 decades.​

Here's the official rule for that:

1.29 (»). Do not advertise, publicize, or promote external domain-related forums or communities on NamePros. This includes linking to pages that directly promote them. The only exception to this rule is local events and meetups that are in person (face to face).

Note: While you did not link to them, your screenshot did technically publicize and promote multiple domain related forums and communities that compete with namePros.

namePros has always encouraged members to share domain related blog and news articles.​

Here's the official rules regarding that:

11. News Sections and News Posts (»)
11.1. News Posts: When posting a third-party's article (i.e., an article you do not own), you should use a title relevant to the article's original title. You must either include portions of the story as a quote or create a summary of its topic that is at least a paragraph in length. Rule 1.27 applies, and an embedded "Source" link to the article is suggested at the bottom. The linked article must contain original writing (e.g., spun content is not allowed).

11.2. News Sections: Original content should lackadaisically follow the NamePros Blog Publishers guidelines, but the requirements are less strict, e.g., a “News” post may be only a few sentences in length.

11.3. News Sections: It must be newsworthy, relevant, valuable, or interesting to the majority of members.

Note: Theres a difference between sharing domain related A) blog/news articles of educational information, data, experiences. etc. versus B) publicizing competing forums/communities.

A) Helps the community grow stronger (Together)
B) Promotes leaving the community (Separation)

At the end of the day, the rule may be slightly influenced by the goal of retention and growth, which all communities strive to do, not just namePros.

Moderators don't make the rules, they simply enforce them fairly, without playing favorites, regardless of a members status.

Again, we apologize for the frustration that enforcing that particular rule may have caused.

For internal use ONLY: https://www.namepros.com/threads/pl...arning-domain-investment.1343575/post-9320064

This rule is a relic of the past IMO. It is antiquated in the world today.

Spamming is one thing. Legit discussion is another.

I agree with @JB Lions.

Brad