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Heaps of gear 17-Sep-2010 At 9:46:11 AM cruze

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On 17/09/2010 nmonteith wrote:
>It's a grey area - and im interested in what others think is spam and what
>isn't.

Perhaps the most relevant person to seek an answer from is the sponsor - Steve at RockHardware? If he is happy then we should be happy. If he is not happy then either a) negotiate terms for the moderation of "spam" with him; b) find another sponsor; or c) shut down the site.

At present I have no personal problems with clearly relevant advertising for sale of climbing related goods by individuals looking to make money, so long as I see that they are contributing to the success (or whatever) of this site. Their non-commercial contribution might be by way of posts on the forum, articles written about climbing techniques, advice to climbers travelling to areas that they are familiar with, great photos that they have recently taken etc etc. In that way their contribution(s) help to feed back to the sponsor's happiness which makes me happy.

It seems clear to me that there are a lot of people (who may be very nice individuals) that seek to gain substantially more from this site than they give.