Thanks for the reply. Just to clarify, I wasn’t the one that deleted your post (I don’t have that ability) - I just wanted to point out why it was probably deleted.

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that you intended to post a detailed message (I can relate to being burntout), but here is the actual text of your post (as a moderator at the Spot, I have access to the original post). “Hi Everybody, We have put up a few (LARGE, you are there and wish you had a larger credit card) photos and impressions Mrs. Audio Federation and I had of this years CEDIA. Thought y’all might be interested:”

Although it wasn’t an advertisement, it was a link to a home theater related business. Since the Home Theater Spot has paid sponsors, it isn’t fair to those companies to allow links like yours to remain. Although it may not have been your intent, it isn’t uncommon for people to try to circumvent the Terms of Use through similar posts. I’ve been a member there for several years and that rule has always been consistently enforced.

I apologize if my comments came across as an attack on you. That wasn’t my intent and I didn’t mean to imply that you had intentionally violated the Terms of Use.

Reading my original comment again, I realize that I was wrong to accuse you of taking a cheap shot with my first sentence. I should have walked away from the computer, waited a couple of minutes and reread my message before hitting the submit button. Please accept my apologies.

Well, first it wasn’t a one line sentence. It went on and on about ‘burnout rearing its purple little head’ and included the photo of the magnifying glass in front of the Sony SXRD 70″ Rear Projector screen [or maybe a different one - I remember actually posting comments about the picture but I was so burnout by then, finally getting done with the report including the Best Of page]. etc. etc. like all of our posts about our show reports on the forums do.

And it was not an advertisement, obviously. Advertisements are those flashy things all over your forum. Can’t miss ‘em.

And so it does come down to ‘taste’. It was your personal choice to delete me and the post - as it was to say it was a ‘one sentence intro’, just like it was the choice of the other forums to leave my posts up and let their members enjoy the pictures we took.

As far as ‘the friendliest forum around’ goes… well, I will say that most of the memers of your forum seem friendly enough.

You know, you could have posted “oops, sorry, it was your first post and we thought your post was spam.”.

Anyway, no hard feelings,
-Mike

“Please note that advertisements or solicitations of ANY kind are not allowed unless given express permission to do so by management of HomeTheaterSPot.Com, Inc. Members may post their personal equipment for sale but only in the Yard Sale SPoT, which is only available for the Paid Membership to post. Please see the rules and disclaimers in that area. Chain letters, pyramid schemes, Coupon Schemes, referrals to other Forums of a similar nature (to promote those forums) and other types of solicitations are inappropriate on HomeTheaterSPot.Com, Inc and this forum.”

Your post was a violation of that section of the Terms of Use and was deleted just like any other similar posts are. The Home Theater Spot is the friendliest HT forum around and your attempt to attack them for enforcing their Terms of Use is undeserved and uncalled for.