Well evidently then I have got the wrong end of the stick as they say. I am not Simon Williams by the way
- not that strong - he´s a GM by the way, who plays a style of chess a million miles away from mine. I dont think he'd be caught dead playing the QGD for instance.
Actually thinking about it you´re right in a way though, this whole subject of advertising I hadn´t even considered before Markovich suggested deleting the Dutch thread, which somewhat took me aback, since as far as I could see there were far more likely candidates for deletion than that! The issue there for me was that the thread had not been
started by the publisher/author. So probably had that not been in my head it would not even have occurred to me the other day that a thread which started off like that (with a link and publisher blurb) could be an advertisement. If the consensus is that this type of post is fine then so be it, I must have seen at least twenty posts like this before and probably it never occurred to me because the subject was not in my head.
I suppose the rules should be clarified a bit though - for example is it OK for a publisher (Everyman, Quality chess or whatever) to directly open a new thread in their own name about an upcoming book? If people agree its OK then theres nothing more to talk about. If not then all that needs to be confirmed is that the poster is a genuine poster and not representing a publisher, but if people are not that bothered either way (which seems to be the case) then anything goes! I myself like book threads, but would prefer if they were started by sombody who is genuinely interested in the book itself for one reason or another.