I have seen that this forum does not consider it inappropriate when some member makes a post or thread about a competing forum. I am a member of other popular forums and they do not allow mention of competing forums as it is free advertising for them.
What is the opinion of members about this? Is it fine allowing members here to promote or mention competing forums without paying this forum owner or taking his permission ?
Why is it hard to understand that this forum is about freedom? To be as free and independent as possible. Theymos doesn't care about competitors, he cares to have a censorship-free forum where everyone can express their ideas and opinions without fear and being moderated, that's why alt accounts on this forum are allowed. This is a very unique forum and I think that we should appreciate that.
There was an aggressive promotion of cryptotalk via signature campaigns on this forum, then cryptotalk was even paying 0.0003 BTC per post on their website but they failed to become a popular cryptocurrency forum, they gained tons of spammers and their forum is dead. There you have forum.bitcoin.com, their forum is dead too. Now there is altcoinstalks.com promoted but I believe they won't dive the Bitcointalk.org because they don't offer something that will be competitive to this forum. There you have bitcointalk.com and it's nowhere as popular as bitcointalk.org
Simply, there is no need to fear that promotion of another forum will dive bitcointalk.org