General,
Where I am coming from:
This site is very nicely divided into categories:
There is the home page, and from there we can reach the following with one easy click:
- free picks
- chatroom
- bonuses & perks
- reviews
- forums
- livelines
- poker
An even more wonderful thing is that if we decide to go to the forum, the other links are still available so we don't have to go to the homepage to get to the other stuff.
The sportsbook ads (which are fully understandable and easily tolerated) and the other links (which are convenient) are there day in, day out taking up space whether we want it or not. So far so good, since one of these is necessary to pay the bills while the other is a convenience and therefore nice to have.
But to have space taken up in the body of the forums for the same purpose is duplication of effort at best, going overboard with promoting advertisers at an average level, and spamming at worst.
In any case I don't see the need for it unless one or more of the advertisers is pushing for it. I'm not sure what your exact rules are for threads whose purpose is to sell the services of an advertiser, but up until now it seems as though it was limited to cases when the advertiser was offering something special and substantial to the players and using the forum to tell us about it. Now I see two in a row that offer effectively nothing extra and are just taking up forum space as glorified ads.
That's where I'm coming from. And what kind of ego or attitude thing are you talking about!? Are you referring to mine, yours, or someone else's? Thanks.