Quote from: theymos on Today at 12:55:52 AM

Several people seem to be concerned that the current policy will be too disruptive/constraining. How about I make this modification to loosen it a bit: you can direct people to mixers by name (even in something like a "top 10 mixers" topic), as long as:
- You don't directly post their URLs.
- It's not a paid ad, and you're not representing a mixer.

Would this be sufficient to address the concerns?

I think this approach makes more sense. The way the "rules" were written generated a lot of doubts, as it seemed that all it took was for someone to say "mixer" to be penalized. This way, it is a little more enlightening. There is talk but without having links (that's what sets everything up - I know), and without anyone receiving money (based on the forum).

Quote from: mikeywith on Today at 01:06:12 AM

It could be understood that I could still wear mixers' signatures as long as they don't contain a URL and my username isn't mixerABCD.

Yes you can. As long as it doesn't have any links. And in turn, whoever is paying him to do so contacted him outside the forum.

Quote from: yenerbatmaz on Today at 01:00:36 AM

Only if you pay people for all the future ad revenue lost owing to your bizarre decision to host and manage this forum in the worst place in the world you could have possibly picked to run a crypto operation...

You clearly don't know what you're talking about and have zero knowledge of website hosting services.

If for you the USA is bad when it comes to hosting, how good is Europe? Interestingly, SB was closed in Europe. And if you analyze carefully, you will discover that the biggest illegal content sites were closed in Europe.

Apart from the USA and Europe, where do you choose?
Russia, to be sanctioned for doing business in Russia, or for the Russian government to confiscate the website?
China, to be giving all the data to the government?
Latin America, to suffer from political instability and poor facilities conditions?

Don't talk about what you don't know. Investigate a little about website hosting, and you will discover that the best servers in the world are in the USA or Europe. If now, you complain about there being times when the forum is down, imagine if the forum was hosted outside the USA or Europe, it would always be down.