If I Asked A Question For A Site Which Monitored Auctions . . . .

[Canary42]

. . . . and a response gave me the site which briefly appeared in another question just now which was hastily removed (presumably as spam), would the response be removed also ?

[Canary42]

Forget it - I see that both that person's questions have been removed now. They seemed genuine to me, but mods know better.

[fiction-factory]

I'm not clear what you are asking but I felt the two posts were artificial questions asked with the intetion of posting a link to the same auction site.

[fiction-factory]

I'm not a mod but I felt the first was spam as there was no reason to add the klink a sthe query had been answered so I flagge dit a spotential spam. The follow up question with the same link made it look even more like spam to me. Maybe the ED/mods knew more to confirm it- eg if the poster has posted similar spam elsewhere

[Canary42]

What I'm asking is when is such a reference spam or not spam - lots of people post Amazon references, but that's not regarded as spam for Amazon.

Ditto Daily Mail, Google, BBC, etc etc.

[dannyk13]

Canary, I think the difference is that AB posters do not have a vested interest in those sites.

[Old_Geezer]

I'm not sure, but if someone gets banned, doesn't all their contributions go ?

[Canary42]

I take your point Danny, it was a "new" poster so the mods were probably right.

So let's close this thread now.

Thanks for responses.