Nothing is banned on here, not even pictures of me naked, so be warned
Seriously though, we don't have anything banned per se, and we don't mind links to other forums, not least the mention of other forums. We're certainly not as strict as the OcUK Forums attitude that I used to be familiar with.
We allo links to other forums, we allow mention of other forums. The only thing we ask is that it's on topic and not linking for linking's sake.
If someone were to just randomly start linking to other photography forums for no reason, then that's not really fair, as it is at risk of us losing business.
However, if someone asked a question on here about, say, the image sharpness of a certain lens, which no one had ever heard about, yet there was a link on another photography forum talking all about it, with a full in depth review. If someone were to link to that particular thread on that other forum, that would be fine, as although it's a risk of taking our business away, it's beneficial to the member.
Same with mentions, and discussing, that we don't mind.
However, a thread literally to discuss other photography forums. While the intentions, I have no doubt, are completely honourable, as are the replies, if you look at it from our point of view, it's not really fair for us to carry that.
Imagine if you went into Tesco, and set up a swapshop in the corner where else people could shop, wouldn't they rightly be upset about it?.
I think this is almost the same (bar we dont make money..) and that we don't have 2 billion profits every 3 seconds...lol
Surely you can understand our reasoning?
Regards.