I read the rules

[Tweaker01]

OK, i got a question. I came on to this site for the first time yesterday and i read the rules before ever posting n e thing. If you read your own rules you will see no rule opposing putting up a website. I posted up a link for www.ghostorb.com. this is an online table top style role playing opportunity that all gamers have been waiting for years to see come around, and by deleting my post you are raping all of your clients out of one of the most important peices of info to any gamer on here. Im not trying to come off like a jackass but i just dont understand y you deleted the post. And once again i tell everyone. GO HERE WWW.GHOSTORB.COM !!!!!!!!!
peace out.

 

[Jdvn1]

Well, advertisements are frowned upon, I think.

 

[Darkness]

As Piratecat already told you, please don't spam. Also, mind your manners. This is not a place for profanity. (e.g., "raping all of your clients") Thanks.

 

[Piratecat]

Off we go to the Meta forum. That's where posts about the boards themselves go.

Tweaker, we didn't delete your post but we did close it. That's because unpaid advertisements phrased as spam aren't something we permit, especially from brand new members. If you want to plug your website (and it does look interesting), you have a couple of options:

- Participate in threads here and become a member of the community, linking to the site in your sig.

- Start a thread in the software forum discussing it (not just plugging it.)

- Write a press release and put it in the Publisher's Forum.

Please feel free to respond here, or to drop me an email, if you have any more questions. Either way, you may want to dial down the hyperbole in your above post.

 

[FoolishFrost]

You know...

I lost all interest in GOING THERE as soon as I saw your post just now. I mean, really, what am supposed to think with the way that was written?

When attempting to gain members to your own boards, you might want to try the following steps:

A. Contact the board admin and find out if he minds a bit of head-hunting. More than likely, they don't since they head-hunted when their board first started. If he is not agreeable, then find another board and try again.
B. Find out what sections of the board have people you want to communicate with. A board on art would do well contacting those who frequent the art forums.
C. Write a polite request that you are looking for members, and what benifits you offer to members. Do not write it as an advertisment, as people tune those out faster than a 60s sitcom.
D. Thank everyone, and don't expect to many to convert, since people like the familiar, and you will not be numbered among them to begin with.

Other ways to have people visit your boards include: contests, open discussions with special guests, and even outright bribery (though the last does not work for very long or very well.)

I wish you luck on you website,

 

[BSF]

Let me get this straight. You are so sure that your site is something I "have been waiting for years to see come around" that you are willing to postt without telling me anything about it other than I should just go there. As well, when your thread is closed, you whine about it being deleted and accuse the moderators/Admins of "raping all of your clients out of one of the most important peices of info to any gamer on here."

Stop and think about this for a moment. You have already admitted that you know nothing about EN World. You are also claiming you know more about what I want, than other folks on here who have seen me post a couple of time over the past year and a half or so. Yet you can't put together something that would be a press release or will inform any potential customers of what you are trying to push.

Why should I believe you? What have you done to show me that you are at all a serious contender for my interest?

Let's take a comparison here. I will pick on Mr. Bowden above. Why? Because he posted in the thread.

He has been around for a little while. He has participated in threads and attracted a bit of my interest. He has posted in the publishers thread about his products. I can look at his .sig and get information. Sadly, I don't need all of his products. I don't run a D20 Modern game.

On the other hand, through his posts and announcements I have seen two products that I have some interest in. The Valley of Frozen Tears and Dryden are both interesting products. I have suggested Paladins & Priests, as well as Rangers & Druids to other people. I don't know if they bought them or not, but I have made suggestions.

I see one person who is serious about his product and is able to advertise it effectively. I see another person that pops up out of nowhere, screams about "the next best thing" and then doesn't even hang around to see what the community is like.

Huh. I wonder which person I take more seriously?

Do yourself a favor. Sit down and think about what you want to say. Put it together as a press release and submit it. Then come back here and join in the conversations about what EN Worlders want. Along the way, you will find ample opportunity to discuss your site and you might even find people on here with similar interests. Heck, you too might feel part of the sense of community that is here and you might have fun. You might even pick up some customers along the way.

 

[TragicShaman]

A Clarification and Apology

Hello to all you EnWorlders...

I unlike this Tweaker fellow have a deep interest the website in question and first even though I do not know this person I apologise for the spam that he laid down. Secondly I would like it understood that this person is in NOWAY affialiated with the website he was posting about, nor are we spamming boards for advertising. We have taken out ads in magazines such as dungeon and have a very well thought out advertsing campaign to deal with getting the word out, which does not include spamming boards such as EnWorld...
We have yet to start our advertising campaign on the web however when we do we will be contacting a certain amount of webmasters and site admins with press releases as well as trying to arranging some advertising exchanges and the such. Again please understand that this person has NO Affiliation with the website in question and it is not our way of doing business to randomly spam other peoples boards.
Anyways again I apologise and hope that this does not cause any further strife.

Thank you,
Tragic

 

[Darkness]

even though I do not know this person

You'd probably have an easy time finding him, though, as he apparently posts from the same IP address as you.

 

[hero4hire]

You'd probably have an easy time finding him, though, as he apparently posts from the same IP address as you.

confirming what many of us had suspected..

 

[Michael Morris]

You'd probably have an easy time finding him, though, as he apparently posts from the same IP address as you.

Cruel, saddistic. Damn, I've gotta get a devil smilie.