- advertising: yes (I'm assuming this is 'how to do advertising', not 'advertising for someone else's product)
- SEO: yes (same)
- people selling useless web app: this is just how you look at it; in many cases, it's people who want feedback on their experimental ideas. Which I think is fine.
- ppl pushing affiliate links: no, but they didn't used to be here, either
- tax optimisation: yes
- blog promotion: as long as they're blogs on the topics of the forum, yes
Many things on the list are described in a negative way, so it's only natural that they're undesirable. But I don't see them that often (like affiliate links - they're quite rare as far as I can tell) and I used to think that Youtube was useless, too.
- SEO: yes (same)
- people selling useless web app: this is just how you look at it; in many cases, it's people who want feedback on their experimental ideas. Which I think is fine.
- ppl pushing affiliate links: no, but they didn't used to be here, either
- tax optimisation: yes
- blog promotion: as long as they're blogs on the topics of the forum, yes
Many things on the list are described in a negative way, so it's only natural that they're undesirable. But I don't see them that often (like affiliate links - they're quite rare as far as I can tell) and I used to think that Youtube was useless, too.