03-02-2012, 11:52 PM
Personally, I think the restrictions on posting links to other sites with forums is moronic. Most of the fishing related forums I'm on have no problem with linking to sites with forums or posts on other forums. It's like BFT thinks other forums are going to steal their readers. Instead of improving and promoting their own site to attract more readers, they want to hide the fact there are other forums out there when anyone with half a brain and access to Google could figure it out themselves in about 30 seconds.
If someone asks a question you know has been answered on a forum at another site, what do you do? Take credit for the other person's experience, or send the asker a PM saying "Here's a link where you can find the answer, but I can't post it in your thread because BFT's rules are stupid."? Some fishing product manufacturers have forums on their sites. Hobie Cat and KVD, for example. If someone asks about these manufacturers or products, can we not link to their sites either? The restriction serves no purpose other than to annoy current readers over what they can and can't post.
This is one of the reasons most of the state boards here are dead. There are active forums on other sites with less restrictive rules and more user-friendly forum software. If there were an active Idaho fishing forum on another site, I'd go there instead and BFT could go piss up a rope.
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If someone asks a question you know has been answered on a forum at another site, what do you do? Take credit for the other person's experience, or send the asker a PM saying "Here's a link where you can find the answer, but I can't post it in your thread because BFT's rules are stupid."? Some fishing product manufacturers have forums on their sites. Hobie Cat and KVD, for example. If someone asks about these manufacturers or products, can we not link to their sites either? The restriction serves no purpose other than to annoy current readers over what they can and can't post.
This is one of the reasons most of the state boards here are dead. There are active forums on other sites with less restrictive rules and more user-friendly forum software. If there were an active Idaho fishing forum on another site, I'd go there instead and BFT could go piss up a rope.
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