Sum up:
We chose not to have commercial ads within forums. There is a snowballing copycat effect. Same thing applies to charity ads for exactly the same reason. It poisons our signal to noise ratio.
We chose to offer space on the forum for group aircraft for exactly the same reasons. Publicity, snowballing to create copycats.
See? Absolutely consistent reasons.
Behind the secenes all mods have the prime commandment drummed into them.
Keep me and Danny out of court and maintain the signal to noise ratio.
PPRuNe is a very attractive venue for cheapskate advertisers because readers are here voluntarily in large numbers. However, because they are here of their own free will we won't have 'editorial' polluted. Other than the originator of this thread the only people pissing us off at the moment are those jumping on the bandwagon to promote commercial places and events.
As demonstrated BRL has some flexibility and leeway for what he considers the greater good. He also has the option to adopt one aviation based charity for regular publicity on the forum as our thanks for all the work he puts in. However, he will give short shrift to those who register and never contribute anything to PPRuNe other than to publicise a single venue or event.
Regards
Rob