Promotion forums on forums not even for advertising

[FB92]

I find little to no meaning on this. This is where a roleplay forum, animal forum etc will have a forum where people can advertise. As far as I know they would go on that forum to roleplay, not talk about animals.

General forums are fine with a forum where people can advertise but again I find little to no meaning on other forums.

[Arariel]

I think I get what you're saying. I allow advertising on my forum, but I find it effective so I can go on their forum and advertise.

[GAF]

I see what you mean. but giving a place for members to advertise encourages members to come on the forum and post.

[samual james]

Through Advertising we can attract more people sometimes its one of the best way to attract new webmaster who willingly to post new things or share their thoughts about our niche

[dreamland]

I'm actually not okay with advertising sections in no forums unless it's obviously a promotion one. Why would an admin want other admins to post their own sites on them? To take your active members away from your site? Most of the times, people who manage other sites only spam your site with avatars with their links on them, signatures with their links on them, posts and threads with their links on them... so basically anything they add to your site is their links

[Jessi]

This seems annoying. I can see some benefit in it attracting people to advertise and maybe they'd stick around, but most people would just advertise and leave, which doesn't help the site any.

If you want to allow some advertising, just allow links to be placed in signatures. That way, people are required to actually participate in the desired topic area, but are still benefiting some.

[Choloboy]

All this will do is get members to join and advertise only. I used to do this, and most of the time they would come on and post something about there website on the advertising section.

[DarkGizmo]

This seems annoying. I can see some benefit in it attracting people to advertise and maybe they'd stick around, but most people would just advertise and leave, which doesn't help the site any.

If you want to allow some advertising, just allow links to be placed in signatures. That way, people are required to actually participate in the desired topic area, but are still benefiting some.

I agree 100% with this. It's NEVER a good idea, unless it's a promotion site of course. It makes no sense to allow others to steal your activity. They can take your ideas from your site, add them to theirs and be like "Oh hey! we got that on our site too and our sis better come join it instead!". Very foolish. You'd have to be extremely desperate for members to allow this on your site and even then, it'll do more harm then good.

[niks00789]

i wont say i agree completely on it,
if you are a new comer and want some activity then a free advertising is good way to gather some offtopic publicity

[Noble Genius]

I completely disagree. Users are contributing to your forum. They make friends in that forum. So, they'll want to tell everyone about that project via an advertising board. The whole idea of exchanging links is good. You'll have interconnected, competing forum. Let the best survive.