Sneaky Swingers vs. Swingtown Forums
It seems that many lifestyle webmasters are trying to take advantage of the CBS Swingtown forum by posting ADs in their signatures. Take for example some members as well as the owner of the Swingers Board who have gone on to promote themselves on the Swingtown forums. However, they quickly found out that their posts are getting deleted. Most wonder why, some keep doing it and others even brag about being covert and changing their online identity to be able to post an AD to their favorite board as someone else. It doesn’t take long to find out that they are breaking the rules, a large white box above all posts clearly states: Please obey the rules of this community (no spam, ads, rudeness, profanity, adult content or irrelevant posts), but most of all, have fun. This makes for a fun time watching the swingers post ADs and then I’m sure, the non-swingers hit the ‘report a violation’ button…round and round we go. One post still alive at the time of this writting was from the people organizing Swingfest 2008, it was still there with a signature that clearly advertises a link to the Swingfest site…it may be interesting to see how much longer the post will remain up?
July 17th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
You might want to reword this post. You won’t find people on the Swingers Board proclaiming to be sneaky about promoting the site on the Swingtown forums. Yes, members of the site did list the URL in their posts initially, myself included, but once it was made clear that said posts would be removed, the general rule of thumb is if you post don’t include a URL. It would be rather stupid to do so otherwise, when you know that your post is going to get removed and in many cases ruin the entire flow of any thread going on there.
Get your news right or don’t post it. (and yes I know you are going to edit this before you post it, if you post it at all).
July 17th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
For those of you reading this, Julie is the owner and moderator of the Swingersboard. Explaining the process is fine but doesn’t change the fact that what you are claiming to be stupid did happen at the time of writing this article. Your comment is really not valid and I stand by what I wrote as the rules were blatantly broken.