[wp-forums] Shall I tag for this

[Jan Dembowski]

drew wrote:
> My only point is that sometimes the information is available somewhere else
> in a more efficient form.
>
> It's fairly obvious if somebody is trying to link to something shady, so
> blanket-enforcing the "no-linking" rule could actually make solving the
> problem harder on all involved.
>
> Let's be moderators, not gatekeepers.
Well... Gatekeeper sorta. And I say that as I just cleared 7 hours of 
spam queue from last night...
> Is there a difference between me linking to one of my own videos vs
> somebody else's video? Somebody will always be promoted in any instance.

I think so and it's come up before.

If someone's posting replies that *always* sends members to their own 
video site, their helpful resource site, their favorite deli site (yep, 
I'm trying to keep it light on one small cup of coffee too. How'm I 
doing? ;) ) then that's not *just* helping. It's (possibly) self-promotion.

With a shoulder tap most members will keep it on the forums 'cause they 
want to help out and that's cool. You can have the Greatest Video/Code 
Self Help site in the World™ but always sending forum members there as 
your reply isn't really cool in my coffee laden opinion.

Once in a while is fine though. Yeah, that's subjective but we are 
moderators and not gatekeepers and the goal really is to help people.

*Drinks more coffee, inserts own shameless self-promotion*

Why not bring it up at today's #wordpress-sfd IRC meetup? ;)

The http://webchat.freenode.net/ is a great way to join that channel at 
1700 UTC today. I only have 30 minutes today but the conversation can 
continue without me if I'm not there and I'll write it up in the update 
tonight.

If that doesn't work (more self-promotion, wait for it!) then there is 
always the option to create a make/support post on the topic.

http://make.wordpress.org/support/

Thanks,

Jan Dembowski

P.S. Today's meetup is 1700 UTC which is 10 AM US Pacific and 1PM EST. 
Next week DST puts it all back in sync.