Have Your Say On Advertising Guidelines

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  1. daniel

    daniel C-Busser Moderator

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    I'd like to talk about what kind of advertising and discussion of third party products that users want to see in these forums. This is your one opportunity to have your say.

    Note: I am a moderator but I don't speak for the forum owner, so this is a feedback exercise only.

    C-Bus is a specialised field and to a certain extent it is useful for C-Bus advocates to have somewhere to communicate the capabilities of their products to each other to build the best solutions. But nobody wants to see the forums over-run with advertising.

    A few options to throw out there:

    1. Create a new "Third Party Solutions" forum. Posts there would be relatively unrestricted within reason but no spam and they must be related to C-Bus.

    2. You must flag your thread (in any forum) with [Ad] in the subject. You get one such thread per calendar year, and can add one post per month inside that thread. Thus you get 12 posts per year to cover all variations and versions of your products. You may respond to questions, also within this one thread.

    3. Continue as now, with advertising frowned on but allowed to a tiny extent at moderator's discretion.

    4. Ban and delete anything that hints of advertising.

    Thoughts? Other options?
     
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    ashleigh Moderator

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    I'd like these two:

    1. Create a new "Third Party Solutions" forum. Posts there would be relatively unrestricted within reason but no spam and they must be related to C-Bus.

    2. You must flag your thread (in any forum) with [Ad] in the subject. You get one such thread per calendar year, and can add one post per month inside that thread. Thus you get 12 posts per year to cover all variations and versions of your products. You may respond to questions, also within this one thread.
     
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    jboer

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    I think it is a great thing personally as it is always good to know what is out there.

    My personal choice would be option 1 but 2 would be ok too.
     
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    Agree, so long as people aren't spamming or bombing threads, or posing as customers/end users.
     
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    I vote for the "Thrid Party Solution" forum

    C-Bus is not soemthing that you will see advertised in mainstream media and thus supporting products are hard to come by. We are all here because of our interest in C-Bus so it makes sense to "advertise" related products here.

    Spam definately not, and bombing wit hte same info a no no as well. Once is enough and updates should there be any (such as new firmware, functionality or other mod to existing product)

    Mick
     
    znelbok, Nov 22, 2013
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    daniel C-Busser Moderator

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    Hi all,

    A new 'Third Party Solutions' forum has now been created, as part of a new section called 'C-Bus Integration'.

    http://www.cbusforums.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=65

    This forum is intended for high-level announcement and discussion of these third party systems from an end user's perspective. Please read the Forum Rules stickied at the top of that forum.

    There are two other forums in that section specific to the C-Bus and C-Gate protocols - those are more appropriate to be used by the developers and hackers of these third party-systems.

    Hopefully there is now a place for everything :) Let me know if the above isn't clear.
     
    daniel, Dec 10, 2013
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