We had a 'Promotion' forum not too long ago, specifically for members who wanted to advertise/promote their bands, but it didn't stop spammers from starting threads all over the boards and spamming the forums.
These people would make an account with no intention of joining the community on a regular basis, make one post, then never return. Consequently adding nothing other than more work for the moderators and defeating the point of having one in the first place.
We want MusicBanter to be centred around it's regular members only and encourage more of a community based forum, so we decided to scrap the 'Promotion' section and observe a zero tolerance policy with the exception of allowing regular members only, to self promote at the discretion of the moderators.
Having a Promotion forum encourages promotion and free advertising.
Since we got rid of it we've found there's been less work to do, as the one post spammers are easier to identify and deal with as they come along.
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