This needs some sort of sticky love imo![]()
No wonder there was no reply, he got banned. What did he do? I didn't notice anything bad in any of his threads.
To give you guys some sort of public explanation, unfortunately Turbo91GT ignored a moderator request to refrain from publicising his own site in many of his posts. Although promoting your own forum/website is allowed to a limited extent - you are allowed to have a link in your signature for example - it is not acceptable to advertise other forums or attempt to boost your own site traffic through posting at GTP without specific authorisation. Normally, if someone is perceived to be doing this, they will be asked politely to stop. If they don't, they will probably receive an infraction (for advertising and/or ignoring a specific request by a moderator), and normally that is the end of it. Unfortunately in this case, a very clear instruction not to promote his own site was completely ignored, and the resulting infraction brought him an automatic ban.
To give you guys some sort of public explanation, unfortunately Turbo91GT ignored a moderator request to refrain from publicising his own site in many of his posts. Although promoting your own forum/website is allowed to a limited extent - you are allowed to have a link in your signature for example - it is not acceptable to advertise other forums or attempt to boost your own site traffic through posting at GTP without specific authorisation. Normally, if someone is perceived to be doing this, they will be asked politely to stop. If they don't, they will probably receive an infraction (for advertising and/or ignoring a specific request by a moderator), and normally that is the end of it. Unfortunately in this case, a very clear instruction not to promote his own site was completely ignored, and the resulting infraction brought him an automatic ban.
If this guy were to post partial list with a message saying the complete list was only availible on his website to direct traffic there then I could understand the action taken. In all fairness though, he provided the complete list to GTP members and I have to say it's very useful.
If this guy were to post partial list with a message saying the complete list was only availible on his website to direct traffic there then I could understand the action taken. In all fairness though, he provided the complete list to GTP members and I have to say it's very useful.
Normally, advertisers are given a straight ban. You are being given a chance to become a contributing member, but one more mention of your site will result in a ban.