Self promoting question

[brad]

What is "self promoting?"

In this thread < http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,116888.0.html >, a question was raised asking for our help (opinion) on what a "good" open source project is to us.

I gave a brief definition. Since I had blogged on a similar topic -- and provided the link to help with his research.

Mod note: link removed for second time. This forum is not for the promoting of ones ideologies, commercial interests, or opinions. On topic replies and posts are welcome though.

I do not make any money on my blog, my license for sharing is as liberal as I can choose (CC at 2.5) and I allow republishing (in other words, there are few restrictions on my writings.) The article I linked to wasn't about Joomla!, in fact, I think if you read it, Brad, you'd probably like it -- it's not far off from what I understand your perspectives to be.

But this link was removed based on "self promotion". Is it acceptable to say email me for related articles?

I could have copied and pasted the article in since it was "on topic" - why can't I link to it? And, how is this self promotion? I had understood self promotion to restrict commercial impositions on community members. I have no commercial interest.

Thanks in advance for helping me understand this better.

[brad]

The rules state:

# Any posts deemed to be self promotion, advertising, or spam can and will be removed. NO SPAM - NO ADVERTISING eg. Posting and making excessive, inappropriate and unnecessary references to your products and websites is self promotion.

But this link was removed based on "self promotion". Is it acceptable to say email me for related articles?

Yes.