Hi sir Jim and Philmusic Mods,
Lately, there has been a rampant trend of music stores posting in our forums. Not that it's a bad thing but I do think they should still abide by the rules of this forum.
This post by JBMusicph:
http://talk.philmusic.com/index.php?topic=251656.0clearly violates this rule in the Guitar Central forum:
"6. Do not post threads about items wanted or for sale/trade here.
- This forum is not a marketplace. Post them at the Classifieds forum instead.
First offense = thread will be moved to the proper forum
Second offense = thread will be deleted
Third offense, etc. = offending member will be a candidate for suspension or banning"
Also another is this post by mr.cLEEn of Lazer Music at an Epiphone thread:
I think posts like these should be in the classifieds and not on general guitar talk or bass talk since they are promoting their items and (in a way) selling them in the thread.
If I may suggest that we have a "Music Store" section (that can be a paid forum to fund the maintainance and bandwidth of this forum like in SOFT.sg and TDPRI) where music stores and their cronies can post about their latest offers, products, price updates, sales, etc.
I know that this will mean more work for our mods but then again, the purity of posts in the forums is in jeopardy. Soon most of these music stores will post prices and promos everywhere and our forums will just be one big classified ads for them.
Cheers!