I am not wrong..you boasted we made no mention of subsim or other sites, which is untrue. Atleast the ones I personaly know are there, there are probably more out there I don't know about. You also did not make it clear you were refering to file comments (instead of the forums, as I thought) since you seemed to be taking issues with either the ad in my sig or the fact that I am using it to host my mods. If you want to talk name calling and personal attacks, you called me a parasite..but I'll overlook that...since I've been called worse by little children on my school bus route.
Oddly enough, the proper defenition of a parasite is something that lives off of a host. The purpose of the silent hunter site is to provide a service to, not leech off of, the community. It is up to each file owner to decide to host with us, and they retain the rights to their files.
But let me first start by saying that comment policies are standard network wide rules, this means all gaming sites, not just silent hunter. No one is singeling out this community. These rules have worked with no detriment to the community in bridge commander since I took over in 2002, so over 7 years, and for bridge commander it's gamming site is far more important and relied upon for more heavily than here, since it is basicly the only host, so if they can handle it, I'm sure you can too.
File comments are not, however, forums. They are treated as threads, where the subject is the mod posted above, thus "hey visit my site" posts are generaly off topic spam. For instace, if FOTRS came over to subsim and started a thread about a new version of their mod, you wouldn't reply to that thread with an offtopic post about your website. You might ask them permission to host their mod, but generaly posting just to advertise would be rude..sorta like conyay west interrupting taylor swift about beyonce's video, or turning a certain german sub school release thread into a circus...in 2 forums..
Unlike a forum, where there is a general topic (modding), which would include the need for discussing some kind of mod hosting solution at some point, the topic of the comments at the filefront sites are determined by whatever poll, mod, picture of the day, news item, they are posted under. so if you are commenting under the FOTRS mod, you'd better be talking about the FOTRS mod, not your own site, or your own mod.
Now, there's always going to be special cases. For example, maybe FOTRS has decided to request beta testers, so one of the team comes over to my site and posts under their mod a link to their forum and asking for beta testers and bug reports (though TBH, a promenently featured news item would suit this better) or perhaps someone was getting a horrible connection with filefront to download their mod, and someone posted a link to Bts or subsim so they could try that download instead (hey..we want them to be able to get the file..) and the player leaves happy, which is the goal.
Plus, there are 2 other obvious reason not to allow comments to be used to advertise:
1) We have a dedicated page, linked on the left side of the main screen, to advertise links. Comment posts are seen by alot of people only so long as said mod is popular/hot/new. The links page is visited constantly, any time people want to know whats out there, it's all in one spot.
2) We have a discussion forum, also linked on the left side menu, which includes a forum for modding and one for clans, if you have a clan site, you should post there.
Now, I understand not everyone is going to like us. If you're going to be one of the ones that don't, fine. But there's really no need to publicly bad-mouth someone or some entity that's trying to help. It's childish at best. At worst, it hurts the growth of a community more than you think you're helping it.
I'm asking you one last time...knock it off. I coulda made a mission in the time and effort I spent on your crap. Which do you think I'd rather be doing?