Our community ( http://www.thelordoftheboards.com ) has taken the time to open a website promotion segment of the board that can help new sites get large hits and increased traffic to them.
We felt because of how busy our forum has become over the past year, it might be best to put a minimum post count on the segment before a link were to be submitted. Some of us didn't feel this was the best way to go at first, but for now, this is something the administrator wanted to be put into place.
She has been fair and has left it open for us to revisit as time goes on.
Do you feel that we should review this again and have it completely open so anyone who wants to, may submit a link immediately upon registration?
I actually agree. If this were my site, I would definetly have a post count, not only to hopefully prevent spam, but also for the reasons that Snobo suggested as well.
I like the name of your board, by the way. It sounds catchy.
I'd be in favour of it. Otherwise you just get people signing up to advertise their site. It's generous of your admin to even allow people to advertise there at all.
Its always a good idea to have a post count down before advertising to the site. As its like they paying you for advertising there forum/site, dont feel presured to do it for free, after all you made the site, you went to all the trouble of making a great active community. So why not collect a few posts from those who want to use your hard work to advertise there site.
I agree. I really, really hate forced posts which just sound like people are posting for the sake of it. that's the problem with relying on post exchanges, for example.
Especially if you nofollow links in posts, there are no cons to making it available.
Five should be good, but mind you, not everybody's forums needs a promotion forum in it. My forums did not, and actually, this was the first forum where I did not have one.
We have been discussion the likes of this part of our forum and today after some banter back and fourth, we had decided that we will look for a Website Review Team to give an overview of the sites posted so that it does not become just a link dump as some call it.
For now the Admin has left the forum open for those who want to post their web sites even with the arguments presented concerning post counts and activity.
