It was me. In your case, Pyrrho, I removed the links because we don't like to encourage traffic to other sites, but then I decided it wasn't fair to you, so I reposted them in my own post. I didn't think that would be a big deal because they were pretty much interchangeable.
The thing is: in general, I treat 30/30 pretty hard-and-fast because it shouldn't be hard to wait thirty days and contribute thirty posts before posting outside links if a member actually wants to become a part of the community. We don't ban anyone over it, except in circumstances such as the ones Cthu described. I reposted your links because they actually did contribute to the conversation.
It's not a perfect rule, but we're just people like everyone else. We enforce it the way we see fit, and rarely are there problems as a result. I'm sorry you encountered one of the problems, but I feel it was rectified fairly.
The thing is: in general, I treat 30/30 pretty hard-and-fast because it shouldn't be hard to wait thirty days and contribute thirty posts before posting outside links if a member actually wants to become a part of the community. We don't ban anyone over it, except in circumstances such as the ones Cthu described. I reposted your links because they actually did contribute to the conversation.
It's not a perfect rule, but we're just people like everyone else. We enforce it the way we see fit, and rarely are there problems as a result. I'm sorry you encountered one of the problems, but I feel it was rectified fairly.
