Quote - how are merchants unable to "properly show their products"? The short list: - No talking about your own product in the forums. If you do, your message is labeled "commercial" and moved to the Product Showcase Forum.

• No posting images mentioning your own product. If you do, your message is labeled "commercial" and moved to the Product Gallery Forum.
• No banner ads for your products unless they are exclusive here... which means you lose the opportunity to sell elsewhere. --John

Well Im not a merchant. But I gotta say if the above is accurate., well, stupid on all three counts. Would it not be smart to run banner ads on other comunity or general multimedia sites. Just as they advertise for other sites as well? It would only bring more members who would eventually if not directly go to the RMP.

Actually as to point 1 I think I can see where they are coming from . In a Adobe Premiere forum I belong to, there's sometimes a new member posting some blatant spam rather than going through proper sales channels. On the other hand Why would I want to go to a merchant forum where essentially each merchant is saying buy me, buy me, and oh yeah. Buty me.. I don't come for the commercials. Sprinkled here and there okay fine.

As to point 2 well if the picture or text that comes with says this is my new... available at the thre of course it should go into an adcertising forum.

Ultimately Point 2 and Point 1 then are basically the same thing. If its blatant then yeah commercial. But if its subtle and in tume with the way most discussion posts go. then I would say not