I notice there is no Advertisment board, can I advertise in the off-topic board or is it strictly prohibited?

It depends upon what you are trying to advertise I would imagine. There are many links to other websites & forums here. As long as they are suitable material for the broad age range of the Forum's members, use your common sense as to whether to Link to them. Inappropriate links will not be allowed to stand.

If you are referring to advertising to sell items or services I think you had better send a PM to Blue herself and when she returns from holiday she can advise you further.

Perhaps you could explain what it is you wish to advertise. Either here or in PM if you would prefer.

no I just wan't to advertise my forum

Well as long as you do not constantly advertise it (ie multiple topics to keep doing so - or keep reviving it when no-one else is active on it) then i would say feel free to. Others do as well.

Thankyou for checking first.

Sure, I wouldn't want to break a rule here.... as this is THE Star Wars Forum. I will just be making one topic in the Off-Topic's board. Thankyou for your trouble.

Plugging a forum in another forum is a serious no-no on most sites. It's considered very bad manners and some webmasters/administrators don't allow it because they think that advertising another forum in their forum is stealing members from their site.

Personally I don't take one-time plugs for another forum too seriously. I do however consider putting a link to another forum in your signature as extreemly rude. Another website, like your personal homepage or something is okay, but another forum is very bad netiquette.

So to make a long story short:
One time post to inform others of another forum that could be interesting is okay.
Posting more than once or even worse: linking another forum into your sig - is not okay.

Thanks for posting and asking! That's very good. I hope you will now remove that link from your sig Sven.

I was gone for a month, I'm back now. I will immidiately edit my signature, I do not want to cause any misunderstandings here and I did not mean to be rude.

Thanks for following Blue's suggestions Sven.

Welcome back. Were you on holiday? Hope everything is ok

Thanks Sven! Welcome back!

wow odd other websites are completely opposite of here

its okay to put in your sig but you will get crap from the administrator if you say anything about it in the public forums lol

good thing this was up though i was gonna link one on my sig...

Well, as I've pointed out earlier; this forum is not like other forums... and that's a good thing imo.

ok, so i can start a topic to advertise my site then? just checking cause this topic has confused me

Its summed up here:





Thanks for double-checking Lukes secret brother

What about if the forum has a completly different subject from this one (example a rock band forum). Is that case also forbidden in the signature?

Nope Jenny. Links to any forums in Signatures is not allowed. You can create a subject to show people if you think it will be of interest to them.

Oki doki, (not that I have an active forum, I was just curious )

Thanks for the answer!

So can I create a topic, for promote my forum? Is that ok? I don't want to feel the wrath of Blue *pictures Blue's wrath and shrugs*

Yup, no links in siggys though!!

can i please plug our forum, we are mostly aussies and couple from UK, we are a rapidly growing forum but would love to have the variety of international members to post there opinions, its a sport site but the off topic section is what most people talk in.

site has been up for about 2 months now and we have around 200 members and we're always online.

www.sports-box.net