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I'm sorry you see it that way. Nobody wants to ban anything, except repeatedly bumping up a thread, that's the only thing that was mentioned. Input from authors is welcome here, I haven't seen anyone say differently.
My personal view is that authors and other interested parties (we also have publishers here) should always make it clear that they are pushing their own stuff. Most of them do, so that's fine. But creating a forum specifically for this purpose will make things much clearer. Lately I have found myself sometimes clicking on a thread thinking it's a discussion I could be interested in, only to find it's a promotional thread. I tend to feel cheated and annoyed by this. I might even be interested in promotional threads sometimes, but I have to know what it is before I click on it, otherwise it makes me angry.
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