Off-site Links - Please Read

[themule69]

Great points everyone and yes, I am completely ok with links to the USDA/FDA website for safety purposes and perhaps a few others.

I am not trying to limit the posting of those few extremely helpful links but I AM trying to eliminate the posting of links that are not absolutely necessary, do nothing to promote or help the forum or it's members and are only there to promote a personal or commercial website while not paying for the right to do so.

We are trying to be as consistent as we possibly can about this but there are a lot of members and only a handful of staff. Obviously some will most likely get through from time to time but we will do our best to find them and keep the the forum clean and orderly.

Thanks Jeff

Happy smoken.

David

 

[s2k9k]

Thank You Jeff! That clears up a lot for us and will make our job much easier!

 

[pineywoods]

Some of you may think this is a new policy but it is not we used to delete links. Then we started allowing links to answer a question a member may have posted but then of course it got way out of hand and some people started posting links in many of their posts with no real reason behind it. Still others had no idea about the rule. The site got too busy and too much new content for the staff we had at the time so it didn't get enforced the way Jeff had asked. Now that we have more staff it should be a little easier however we may still not catch every link. If you see one that doesn't belong you can hit the flag icon at the bottom of that post and that will notify us to look at it.

We have never that I know of deleted any reputable Food Safety links

 

[s2k9k]

Thank You Piney! That explains it very well!

 

[kathrynn]

Thanks Jeff!

Kat

 

[fwismoker]

Links to sponsors websites are allowed correct?    I just noticed that i had one deleted from a while back that was to a sponsors website... just need clarification.

 

[daveomak]

Links to sponsors websites are allowed correct?    I just noticed that i had one deleted from a while back that was to a sponsors website... just need clarification.

I saw that, and it surprised me.....   If sponsor links are being deleted, I have many to delete....

 

[s2k9k]

Links to sponsors websites are allowed correct?    I just noticed that i had one deleted from a while back that was to a sponsors website... just need clarification.

What sponsor was it? And what post was it?

Sponsor links are fine, that's what they pay for. I don't know why it was deleted.

 

[fwismoker]

What sponsor was it? And what post was it?

Sponsor links are fine, that's what they pay for. I don't know why it was deleted.

It was a smoke daddy page. http://www.pelletprogrill.com/customer.html    I had it in this post, showing pics of the different pellet grills. http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/142122/wsm-or-a-pellet-grill#post_1009940

 

[bama bbq]

Great points everyone and yes, I am completely ok with links to the USDA/FDA website for safety purposes and perhaps a few others.

I am not trying to limit the posting of those few extremely helpful links but I AM trying to eliminate the posting of links that are not absolutely necessary, do nothing to promote or help the forum or it's members and are only there to promote a personal or commercial website while not paying for the right to do so.

We are trying to be as consistent as we possibly can about this but there are a lot of members and only a handful of staff. Obviously some will most likely get through from time to time but we will do our best to find them and keep the the forum clean and orderly.

While common sense ain't that common these days, this sounds like a good common sense position to me.

 

[s2k9k]

It probably got deleted because the web site in the link says "pelletprogrills" not "smokedaddy", I just looked and the "pelletprogrills" site is a direct link from the "smokedaddy site". Weird that the site name in the address changes.
I will go add the link back to your post!

 

[s2k9k]

It was a smoke daddy page. http://www.pelletprogrill.com/customer.html
   I had it in this post, showing pics of the different pellet grills. http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/142122/wsm-or-a-pellet-grill#post_1009940

I put the link back in. Thank You for pointing this out, I informed the rest of the Mod staff about it.

I am the one who deleted it because I thought it was a completely different website, I know better now, Thanks!

 

[s2k9k]

I think this needs a bump!

 

[s2k9k]

I guess this needs another bump!

 

[smokinhusker]

And I put the TOS in the Carousel!

 

[davidhef88]

Bump. I see a lot of new faces posting links. They are still not allowed, correct?

 

[boboso]

Yes, Thanks Jeff.

 

[boboso]

Just a dumb rookie question, what does bump mean, or do?

 

[davidhef88]

Just a dumb rookie question, what does bump mean, or do?

Just bumping it back to the top of recent posts by posting a comment.

 

[boboso]

Ahh. Gotcha. Thanks, Davidhef88.