The Community Guidelines have been updated today.
No Post Shilling
Even in the off-topic boards, there needs to be some valuable takeaway from any topic that is created. Topics that exist only to drive up member post counts are frowned upon and will be closed. Those kind of topics don't add anything of value to the discussion and can actually hurt the community. For instance, for new members it can seem confusing to see nothing but a single non-Webroot-related topic filling up the recent posts list. It's ultimately left to moderator discretion to determine what falls into this category, but to give an example, it would be topics like random word association games. It's ok to create topics that are lengthy though, as long as there is some tangible topic of discussion that other community members could benefit from. Here is an example of an off-topic forum topic we don't mind being lengthy, and here is an example of one we did mind being lengthy and ultimately closed.
Thanks! :robothappy: