Human wrote:Doesnt Seraph forbid solitication on the board?
We remove solicitation if it is
- commercial OR repeated (multiple postings for the same thing)
AND
- doesn't add value to the site.
The second rule is only there as a backup for when the first rule is violated. So rather than just banning all commercial solicitation we give it a pass if it comes with some content or freebie that people are enjoying.
These rules apply to all sections of the site, though obviously different moderators will apply them with different degrees of leniency. For me personally it has to be a fairly blatant violation to get deleted.
For non-commercial single postings however, I have no interest whatsoever to enforce a particular notion of what a webtease is. This site is a hosting platform, not an editorial blog. We aim to provide authors with decent tools to make and publish teases. Whatever they want to put in there is none of my business as long as they don't break the law.
For those of you who were concerned about the quality of our front page - if you are truly worried that people will no longer be able to find the good teases then there is a really simple way to help: Editorialize. You could start a blog website linking to good teases or a forum thread listing your favorites. We don't want to make judgements over content, but
you are perfectly free to do so.
That said, we do consider it part of our duties to provide tools for sorting and finding teases, so if this type of tease becomes commonplace we'd add a tag and a filtering mechanism for it. Note that it'll take a few months to really get a sense if this is going to be big enough of a phenomenon to warrant its own category.