Originally Posted by Zer0

I was just thinking about a possible way to deal with self-promotion and spamming on this forum.

Why not have an artist promotion section in the Artists Corner and have a clear rule stating that all promotion must be in this section? What this can possibly do then is isolate spamming and self-promotion to this section, making it more manageable, and keep the rest of the site free of spam and self-promotion threads. Also get rid of the 15-post rule as well so the spammers won't have to post pointless rubbish before they post their link in this section. Really nobody's going to read their crappy threads and click their links anyway but it will keep the spammers happy and us happy as well, some of the spammers might even stick around and contribute to the forum instead of disappearing or being banned.

It could however though increase the volume of spammers coming here to promote which may or may not cause problems, it's difficult to know really. What do the moderators think?