USVI-On-Line

Hi everyone - I just want to make the point again that posting your URL or website as a post, i.e. making a new post that says "hey check out my website" - even if that website if great/cool/new/interesting - is not okay here. Please remember that this is a business and that we have dozens of paying advertisers/sponsors and they are what makes it viable for us to pay the hosting and make this our full time job. It is not your personal PR machine. I deleted a post early this week for exactly this reason. Believe me, we are lenient to lax about this most of the time - I hate to come off like a tough guy and I prefer to defer to the groups judgement - but everyone needs to be aware of it and to please respect that fact.

Thanks -

CariBert wrote:Sometimes you are way lax in these matters.

Thanks!

Maybe it's just me, but I think a "building" blog is a very effective way to expose a villa to potential customers/renters (so in a way, it works as an advertisement). Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy reading them! However, it doesn't seem quite fair to the paying advertisers on this forum. Again, maybe this is just me thinking too much I'm sorry if I offend anyone.

Anthony, I'm with Bert in thinking that you are very liberal sometimes with what you allow in self promotion. I have always been amazed at how well you balance the scales of fairness regarding this issue.That said, there's always going to be thoughtless and/or greedy folks out to get a free lunch. I, for one, appreciate all that you provide us with, especially the effort that you put in to keeping the posts spam free.

Since you posted this thread, there have been several suspicious posts. There's one now on the OT forum from someone who is trying to sell cell phones. I just think it's strange how it's picked up all of a sudden.