Do you even realize that you confirmed everything I said, Spinward Scout? LoL
If we were half as draconian as you're implying, you'd be banned right now for trolling.
You've made personal attacks on me, FT, and Spinward Scout. I'm not even bothering with the infraction system.
To be quite specific, and for others edification...
Links to Other Sites
Links to other game-related sites have ALWAYS been "link to specific content only" on COTI, save for some very specific exceptions - namely Mongoose and SJG, and for a while, Avenger.
Links to a certain other site were EXPLICITLY banned
in total by Hunter - at the time, the board owner, and still an admin - because the posts of links to it by its own moderators/administrators specifically were of a "this is to replace COTI" mode. Several users ignored that ban, and got infracted and their sigfiles edited by mod staff. A few argued it in thread after being infracted for it. At present, deep links to that site for specific useful content won't be infracted.
But general links to other Traveller forums (aside from SJG and Mongoose) are not acceptable. By general links as I understand the policy means anything broader than a specific thread.
The reason for the SJG and Mongoose exception is that they are current licensees.
Note that, in product announcements, we're generally pretty lax about links to developer's homepages - the ones I've edited out (about 7 total posts) have been because the link was malformed and didn't go where it was supposed to. I've held up 10 or so announcements due to misaimed purchase links. (In one case, the link was missing a digit, and wound up going to a different game line unrelated to traveller.) I bounced one because it was for non-traveller product. Another got relocated from the news threads to the Lone Star, since it wasn't actually announcing anything (all the mentioned product was previously announced by the publisher), but was of interest to the membership.
Arguing with Mods
Arguing with mods about board rules calls in the thread where the offense occurred is an automatic infraction. You want to complain? There are two ways to do so...
1) PM the mod in question and/or Andrew Boulton.
2) Post in the
Citizens' Information Centre with a link to the thread where the issue occurred.
I've reversed a few infractions myself, as have Dan (Far Trader) and Andrew. Don stays out of that except in the T5 areas.