I can see your point re: promoting my own site, etc, but lately it has been more of a tongue in cheek way of bringing attention to the issue of this forums moderation than a genuine attempt to develop my business.

Yes, I do want more people to my site, and yes I do want to offer advice but no, I'm not prepared to scour monster for information that is easier found elsewhere.

I'm not saying that I should be going, "come to my site, its much better", but I don't think that, "I have a useful article on that subject" is entirely unreasonable.

It is much easier for me to offer a link to a site found via a search engine than to navigate this site and return to my reply. That's an issue for your web designers though! ;)

"What you seem to be missing or avoiding is that you have been promoting your site within this forum". ²

I have neither missed nor avoided this issue and have discussed it openly.

"but Monster is not the No.1 recruitment web site globally for no reason" ³

I'm not even getting onto my issues with that! :)

OK. Fair enough, I did go against the rules by plugging my site, but I maintain that if an individual such as rich and myself can give time to offer advice to people then certainly you can (monster, that is) by offering more expert advice on this forum (even just on issues surrounding the site itself).

We have been trying for months to get a response of some sort from you with nothing. There have been a lot of issues raised in this forum that have only been dealt with by our experiences or guesses and not by quality information (do employers view this board, etc etc).

You said that you have to protect the flow of traffic to and from your site. Fair enough. But its not traffic. Its people. People looking for advice or information and almost certainly - a job. And if you are content to sit back and let everyone do their own thing on this forum, then so be it. But look what's happened! People who come here get directed away, because the information here is not deemed to be of much cop.

Ill quite happily continue posting here, but I'm not using monster information over externally available information, just because "its the rules". I will refer people to the top ranked sites in that particular subject area.

I will however stop referring every person I speak to, to my site.

Cant say fairer than that?

Regds

Scott

ps If YOUR site wants to make a contribution to MINE⁴ (www.jobseekersadvice.com - last URL drop - I promise!), for lets say, services rendered, then it will be gratefully received! :)"

NOTES:

1. I have removed the blokes name.  Seems only fair as he isn't here to defend himself.

2. Quote from previous thread(s).

3. Quote from previous thread(s).

4. Reference to a comment that if I wanted to promote my site through Monster that I could he could put me in contact with the relevant department / person.  I joked here that I have already made enough of a contribution to their site and the rest you can see. 

It was this last point that had me banned (apparently dropping my URL that one last time was a step too far!).

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