StevieTerrier
Hope I'm not losin' the edge", but I'm certainly slowin' down at the moment to recover from the past few days constantly monitoring the 'Yorkshire training schools' thread. Making sure nobody went too far in their views about your company or its owner, e-mailing people inviting them to rephrase their own posts, editing/deleting them myself if necessary etc. Bound to slow anyone down.
"Corruption in PPRuNe Towers?"
A chance would be a fine thing! We could do with a few plain brown envelopes full of used £50's to help pay for the enormous bandwidth the site now uses.
Sadly, the true explanation is far more boring:
- Businesses who pay for advertising on PPRuNe may, within reason, mention their businesses in a post provided it is made absolutely clear the post is not from an independent source.
Applying that to the example you give: Roy Wood works for a company which pays for advertising, he made it clear who he was, he didn't use the post to set out all the services etc his employers offer (as you did recently ** ) and, most important of all, he didn't pretend to be just an independent 'satisfied customer'. (** I made an exception and didn't remove it for a few days. I thought that was only fair given the flak your company was getting from people.)
- Independent recommendations from satisfied customers are permitted on PPRuNe, provided they are relevant to the thread and in answer to a question asked.
Genuine recommendations are helpful to PPRuNe users who ask for advice; "recommendations" by people with a financial interest (or their friends) are not independent and may mislead.
It's not always possible to distinguish the genuine from the 'plugs'. Sometimes it's obvious the 'question' itself is part of the attempt to 'plug'. But Mods learn to spot the tell-tale signs.
Some 'plugs' inevitably get through. When in doubt, we delete. Sometimes we might be wrong and offend people who've posted genuinely. But we can only do our best to protect PPRuNe users from being 'conned'.
- Using business names as 'usernames' in order to obtain free advertising at PPRuNe's expense is not permitted.
That's so obvious that, on this forum at least, only one company has ever tried.
[Edit] I've just remembered, that should be two. How can I have forgotten a certain magazine publisher who took up so much of my time? Perhaps I am losin' the edge after all. 
- Advertising on PPRuNe does not protect advertisers from being criticised on the forums.
If anyone want examples of that, pick an airline which advertises with us, and hit the 'search' button!
I can understand why you chose your 'username' Stevie.
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