[wp-forums] To what extent should we allow volunteers to place links to their site

[Mark R]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:19 PM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net> wrote:
> on 24/09/2009 16:47 Mark R said the following:
>
>> If there were to be an exception - because there always has to be one
>> - it would be a third party site or trusted forum volunteer's site
>> where a niche answer has been given in detail.
>
> How do you define "niche answer"?

My definition would be that the question is specialised in the first
place and you know of a site where it has been answered well. To copy
that solution to the forum (assuming that would be okay) might then
result in the questioner thinking the forum can support them with more
issues on that first problem. Better therefore to indicate a site with
the solution and where more help is available.

Codex I cannot talk about. My involvement there was minimal if that
much so I defer to those that spend time there.

For the forums generally though link usage has to tackled before it gets worse.
Seen this?  http://wpcodex.com/ You can guarantee that sites like that
will try and get their sigs / links everywhere possible and such a
decision has to look at the crap and police from there.