I'll see if I can shed some light here.

Firstly, the reason you have seen a lot of edited posts recently, is because there has been an abundance of posts providing links.

The Terms of Service everyone agrees to upon registering states:

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Intercot also does not allow promotion of other websites on our boards including advertisements, for sale / for rent posts, links or blatant promotion. Repeated/excessive posting of the same URL to the boards is also not permitted. Self-promotion of websites is not permitted. All web site and e-mail addresses are to be placed in your user profile and NOT in your signature file (should you choose to use one). Any of the listed violations may lead to your post being deleted entirely and/or your being suspended from use of the boards. <hr></blockquote>

There is no way for the Staff to Moderate off-site links. We'd have to access the posted site and everything clickable via that site -- and so on and so on. It would be never ending. INTERCOT prides itself on being a family Board. That could be jeopardized.

Another important issue to consider; The idea of a message board is to gather firsthand experiences. As well as ask immediate questions. These can not be answered by saying: "Click here".

It is rare that the information is not obtainable within INTERCOT. If that happens, and you can assist by finding it elsewhere then bring the information into the post that way. It is not necessary to name your source. You could simply say: I did a search and found this information. If you modify the text - it is not plagiarism.

INTERCOT would not be in existence if all we did was ship people elsewhere. There is a great and ever growing community here and we’d like to keep it that way.

Does this make sense? [img]smile.gif[/img]

Thank you for asking.