just did my first post in this forum about a problem with xara, in my footer i had a link to a game of mine, somebody redirected this link to a 'spam' entry of this forum.

so i removed it, because, if this - although it is common web-practice to link to personal stuff in the footer - is the policy of this forum, i am fine with it

but now i just looked a bit around and there are plenty people linking to commercial pages in theire footers. i do not have a problem with that, as it is common web-practice and nobody forces you to click on that links.

the question that comes up is: why are others allowed, and i am not?