Posted by: lakeswimr
« on: January 31, 2013, 03:12:51 PM »I guess I read your 2nd post with a tone you didn't intend. I'm sorry.
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If I were new and stumbled on this place and saw those posts I would write this whole place off as rude and unfriendly.
My initial post was not the most welcoming. I apologize. However almost without fail when a new user comes and posts links repeatedly to their site, it is spam. If it's once, it can be a mistake, but having several initial posts that link people back to your site is what counts as spam here. The "so I can reach more of you" was a red flag for spam.
My snarkiness above was in response to the condescending "I am here to help you" and "I can reach more if you" wording. I bet if you reread that you can see how condescending that would come off? That also made me think your posts were spam.
Community members here do read blogs, and as I said elsewhere we refer each other to helpful blogs. And on twitter we certainly tweet links to blog posts that are helpful or interesting and worth pondering.
So I apologize for my rudeness, and I hope you get a sense of where I was coming from and also where we as a board are coming from.
We welcome new members. Ad we hope they contribute to the discussion and help broaden knowledge of dealing with food allergies. I do hope you stay now that you are aware of the terms of service (that we have all agreed to). This is an amazing community that has been together for more than a decade, some if us (and we already know we're not alone). We've got a lot to offer and a lot to explore together.
I started a blog and website in 2009 for people with severe peanut, soy or tree nut allergies. I hope you will all visit and get some use out of it. Its called Maya's Happy Place.
http://mayashappyplace.blogspot.com/
I know there's not much for us older folk with these allergies, so I also created a Facebook page, Adults With Food-Allergies and Eczema which you will find on my main page. I am also adding a ton of recipes I find all over the internet to my Pinterest page so add me on there as well. Lots of goodies for all of you!
I am so happy I found this message board so I can reach more of you! I can't wait to get to know all of you and know you are not alone!
So you're not sorry you violated our TOS you're just sorry about our (mis)perception of you? Wow.
Our commercial rules apply to all who have products, services and businesses related to the allergy community. Your site isn't a service? The information and support you claim to provide are services, FWIW. Also, you are soliciting views of your site from our members. That violates the TOS whether you perceive your site as "commercial" or not. Plus, regardless of the commercial (or not) nature of your site, it's still link spamming (not to mention rude) to post your link all over our forum.
Wow. I didn't realize I was so needy. You can stop patting my head now.
Yeah, we all hope we help each other here. HERE.
I started a blog and website in 2009 for people with severe peanut, soy or tree nut allergies. I hope you will all visit and get some use out of it. Its called Maya's Happy Place.
http://mayashappyplace.blogspot.com/
I know there's not much for us older folk with these allergies, so I also created a Facebook page, Adults With Food-Allergies and Eczema which you will find on my main page. I am also adding a ton of recipes I find all over the internet to my Pinterest page so add me on there as well. Lots of goodies for all of you!
I am so happy I found this message board so I can reach more of you! I can't wait to get to know all of you and know you are not alone!