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After reading through this thread, the natural first thought I had was: "Gad... am I one of those people that these guys are railing about?!?" Obviously, no one in a forum wants to be considered obnoxious (unless, of course, they really do want to be obnoxious), but there is often a fine line between advertising and annoyance that I think we're all walking here.
I would also point out that the forums, as described, are largely being used by authors in the proper way. I think some of the threads mentioned ("Are there readers here?", etc) go about advertising themselves in an admittedly sneaky way... on the other hand, as I've started threads essentially lampooning my own work to help promote it, I don't really react to threads that do a similar thing in a different way. (Gad... I really am one of those people, aren't I?)
Anyway, this is all my way of putting in my 2 cents' worth, to say that there really is no need to change the forums, or add a new forum... I think what we have works just fine. Yes, there will always be abusers... but they will abuse, no matter what you set up. You just have to be vigilant against the abuse, and know when to check out a thread, and when to ignore one.
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