Commerical Announcements on LAVA

[mross]

QUOTE (ExpertQTP @ Jul 22 2008, 08:16 AM)

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Since I have never seen anything on LAVA quite this commercial, it makes me wonder what is the policy and general opinion about this sort of thing.

My initial resoponse is that I find it intrusive, but perhaps that is a harsh and reflexive reaction. I dislike it greatly that the author has chosen to be anonymous.

Without the anonymity, I might be OK with it, if there was a commercial forum to place things like this (maybe there is and I don't know of it). Or if the subject subject line clearly noted that the posting was commercial. Of course, I wouldn't subscribe to the commercial forum and would seldom look at it. And what are the odds that someone who has just joined LAVA and the first post is commercial would know about labeling subjects?

So it is a gray area for me. It is perhaps a good idea to supoort the money making between us. The Info-LAbVIEW policy that commercial posts be mercifully brief seems to work, however, this one cuts it too close.

We used to have a paid advert after every initial posting, that was really irritating. If I was trying to drum up business, but was instead engendering that reaction, I would not be achieving the desired result for the expense.

Anyway, this posting strays from the usual mutual support and freely given help that we consistently see here. At best it seems out of place and at worst a bad idea.

Mike

[crelf]

QUOTE (mross @ Jul 22 2008, 09:24 AM)

Since I have never seen anything on LAVA quite this commercial, it makes me wonder what is the policy and general opinion about this sort of thing... Anyway, this posting strays from the usual mutual support and freely given help that we consistently see here. At best it seems out of place and at worst a bad idea.

Personally, I encourage commerical announcements that the LAVA community might find interesting (examples of other commerical announcements include awesome tools like the VIPM, labviewmastery.com, the IVision Toolkit, blogs galore and many more), but I do agree that they need to go into the right sub-forum. We have a http://forums.lavag.org/Announcements-f25.html' target="_blank">sub-forum for announcements (I've moved the initial post over there).

You're right - newbies probably won't know to post their commerical announcements there, but that's what the admins are here for - to gently point them (and everyone else) in the right direction.

[JiMM]

Speaking of commerical announcements, why isn't your corporate logo a link? It was paid for right? :thumbup:

[crelf]

QUOTE (JiMM @ Jul 22 2008, 12:04 PM)

Speaking of commerical announcements, why isn't your corporate logo a link? It was paid for right?

Mike's working on it

[eaolson]

QUOTE (crelf @ Jul 22 2008, 09:50 AM)

Personally, I encourage commercial announcements that the LAVA community might find interesting...

Announcements about relevant commercial products are one thing. This was pretty obvious spam. This guy has been posting the http://www.google.com/search?q=%22For+real+time+concepts+on+quicktest+professional,+training+,+QTP+scripts+and+Certification+Material%22&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3a%6ffficial&hs=K0h&filter=0' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">same comment to dozens of different blogs.

[crelf]

QUOTE (eaolson @ Jul 22 2008, 03:12 PM)

Announcements about relevant commercial products are one thing. This was pretty obvious spam. This guy has been posting the http://www.google.com/search?q=%22For+real+time+concepts+on+quicktest+professional,+training+,+QTP+scripts+and+Certification+Material%22&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3a%6ffficial&hs=K0h&filter=0' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">same comment to dozens of different blogs.

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