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 ?
Says a user who has a link to his profile on another forum as his signature on this forum, what an irony.
Anyways, note that my mentioning altcoinstalks on this comment is for reference purposes only, not promoting them, altcoinstalks did censored and banned the mention of bitcointalk on their forum for several years, it was after that theymos banned mixers, and many users from bitcointalk started rushing to sign up on altcoinstalks because the campaign managers announced that they were moving mixer signatures to that forum. This was when the admin of altcoinstalks realized that possibly, bitcointalk is not in competition with his forum, so, he lifted the censorship and ban on links to bitcointalk, and also bitcointalk as a word.
Now, the question is, should bitcointalk do same? The Answer is No, allow them, bitcointalk is still and will remain the father of all cryptocurrency forums because, this is the only place where the spirit of Satoshi Nakamoto lives, and good fathers are known to lead their children by examples, and to me, banning the mention or promotion of other forums here won't be a good example bitcointalk is leading other forums with, and besides, this forum is not in competition with any other forum, atleast, until theymos says otherwise.