Pages in topic: < [1 2] | Do we need a self-promotion forum? Thread poster: Sheila Wilson
| I check polls but... | Oct 26, 2016 |
writeaway wrote: Have a look at the daily "poll". There are a number of regulars who are there 365 days a year. No matter how innocuous the poll "question", they manage to find a way to brag about their achievements/earnings/workload and to market their services. Do not share your opinion, I hardly see selfpromotion there, unless the question of the poll implies it. | | | Hard to believe outsourcers use the forums to find vendors | Oct 26, 2016 |
Angie Garbarino wrote: I hardly see selfpromotion there, unless the question of the poll implies it. I agree, there's a fair amount of willy-waving, but it's hard to see this as self-promotion, it's more a case of character defects, at least in my case! | | | Samuel Murray Netherlands Local time: 19:42 Member (2006) English to Afrikaans + ...
Sheila Wilson wrote: I'm beginning to see a number of threads across various subject areas that simply give a link to something the poster has written. ... When I get a notification about a new thread, I expect to find a discussion on the subject, not a link to the poster's own material and nothing else. Would it be better to restrict such threads to a new "Self-promotion" forum rather than having them spread across Business Issues, Translation Theory and Practice, Money Matters, etc? Yes, I think there is room for such a forum. However, it is likely that you would still receive notifications about them, because they will likely only be moved to that forum after a few readers realise that the thread was posted in the wrong forum. I would suggest renaming "Translation news" to "Translation news and links", and then use that forum as the forum where posts that consist mainly of just a link to an outside site be moved to. | | | Tom in London United Kingdom Local time: 18:42 Member (2008) Italian to English Let's cut to the chase | Oct 26, 2016 |
I am the greatest translator in the world.
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Samuel Murray Netherlands Local time: 19:42 Member (2006) English to Afrikaans + ...
Tom in London wrote: I am the greatest translator in the world. And that is precisely why this proposed forum should not be called "self-promotion" but "links", because its purpose is to allow translators to post links, and not to promote themselves. | | |
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