By default, BadBear's ad spam rule prohibited users from posting
any material promoting their services in other people's threads. All the exception did was allow small and non-distracting pool and exchange announcements. All other services are still banned from posting promotional messages to anyone else's ANN thread.
The rule is pretty specific about that. The
ARE NOT large, distracting with images, or markup codes (lots of bold and colors) and other traits of an advertisement. If a post is considered an advertisement will be determined on case by case basis.
clause applies only to those posts that match the exception
However, said rules only apply to those posts that...