I have posted such URLs a number of times, usually for a review of
something dpreview has not covered, and not even a warning. Come to
think about it though, I have not noticed other review sites posted
by others, well, except for Luminous Landscape which gets posted a
lot. Of course it is quite a different kind of site even though he
does some reviews too. I have been lucky, I guess. And I don't post a
lot.
I know the D200 forum has been besieged by Canon trolls for three
months to the point that for a while that was all that was on the
first couple of pages. While some are left, many have disappeared,
but I have no idea whether they just got tired of it or their false
identities just got booted. Not quick at all, though, at least on
that forum. Some of them were there for weeks.
I guess our experience is a little different.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Mar 2, 2006, at 6:15 PM, Mark Dapoz wrote:
> He has staff (volunteers?) which police the forums/complaints and very
> quickly ban people who even remotely break the rules. Something as
> simple
> as posting a URL to a "competing" site will get you banned. The
> Olympus
> forum has just had a few long time posters banned for such
> activity. The
> forum software also automatically removes urls from your posting if
> Phil
> has deemed that site to be banned from his site. I agree with banning
> people who are problematical, but come on, posting a link to a
> commercial
> site which has a competing review shouldn't get you banned. It's
> obvious
> dpreview only wants you to see their reviews and their sponsors on
> their
> site.
> -mark
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