I find this works...

[mheyworth]

yeah i don't like the idea of PMing people to advertise a site.

If I got PMed, I would completely ignore it anyway.

Mike.

 

[Hatori]

Yup.. Totally true. Such a devious act could not be sustained by any admins.

 

[~Diva~]

Every time I post something to my staff on advertising for my forum, I always advise them against PM advertising. I tell them that not only will people be more likely to ignore the PM or report it to the admin, it also ruins my board's reputation. And I don't PM advertise either. I've had people PM advertise on ME, and I usually ignore the PM.

 

[Sweetheart]

PM advertising is the worst. As an admin, I don't trust people that join a forum simply to pm advertise. That's dishonest. The only advertising I allow on my forum are links in the signature line. And I do have affiliate links on the portal page. But posting "30 second" commercials for other forums--a big no-no in my book.

 

[~Diva~]

One person joined my board, and all he did was PM advertise me the one time to talk about another advertising board. Now while I got another board to advertise on, I ignored the PM altogether. This person wasn't even kind enough to post one article before the PM. Go figure.

 

[Cauldron]

this is a bit different, but I am a member of my friends site and shes a member of mine and I recently asked her if I could PM one member of her site and invite them to come and join my forums.
my friend said this was ok and I pmed the person in question invited them but said that I had asked admin (my friend) before doing it, so she knew I wasn't taking advantage

 

[Tessa]

I wouldn't like it if someone joined my forum and asked to invite my members to their forum. That's just unethical.

 

[Clayton]

99% of admins won't allow people to PM advertise on their forum.

Especially if the sites have the same topic

 

[reuploaded]

If you spam, people will think you are a spammer, and that could easily turn them off the idea of your forum

 

[TheLadiesCafe]

I dont allow PM spamming on my site. I would never do this to another admin.

 

[Kino]

I think it's completely stupid to PM members on other forums to get more members on your forum.

 

[TheExoticFish.com]

Most forums don't like someone "spamming" their users advertising their forum, competition or not.

 

[Novelmark]

I would never allow this. People get really annoyed when people pm advertise

 

[TsurukoMaiko]

Not a good idea I think. Of course, picking a few members out of their forums and finding their emails and sending messages that way might work.

Albeit sneaky, though. XD

 

[X-Ception]

Personally the original idea while if the forum owners say yes i suspect it would simply look spammy to there users - i actually disallow it on my site where i allow them within the forums themselves.

 

[Kino]

Most forums don't like someone "spamming" their users advertising their forum, competition or not.

Doesn't mean you have to subtract a reputation point from me.