[wp-forums] Accounts registering just to post personal links

[S Bollinger]

No objections from me - we could lose that section and it wouldn't 
bother me. It's also abused by spammers saying "nice site", then adding 
their link. Gets old.
Sam

Mark / t31os wrote:
> I know we've had similar discussions before relating to personal links.
>
> However what i want to bring up today is the existance of accounts 
> that are being registered, posting personal links in the "Your 
> WordPress" forum, and having no further activity.
>
> My thinking was along these lines. The forums are provided to support 
> users, if they come to the forum, seek support, they are then entitled 
> to promote their blog/site appropriately in the "Your WordPress" 
> forum. If they register, post a link, and do nothing else then they 
> are there simply for the linkage/google-juice.
>
> Is there any objection to bozo'ing these users and removing their 
> threads?
>
> P.S. If we've discussed this specifically before, could someone dig up 
> the original discussion so i can avoid repeating a topic that's been 
> covered already. I had a quick look and couldn't find anything for 
> this specifically (i might have missed something). Again if we've 
> covered this before, just refresh my memory please.
>
> Mark
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