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Advertising Questions and Answers:
What is the WebChat official advertising policy?
What is considered advertising?
Why can't I advertise?
How can I get people to my channel/web site/etc.?

What is the WebChat official advertising policy?
Good Question. The truth is I haven't been able to get a complete answer to this question yet.
The policy is to warn and then ban users who continue to advertise from the network. If that doesn't stop the problem we will warn and/or close the channel that is being advertised.

What is considered advertising?
Advertising is basically any message sent to a channel or user asking them to check out a web site or server or to join another channel on the network. Some channels may allow advertising on their channel in channel messages. This is NOT encouraged, however we tend to "look the other way" in these cases, rather than interfere in channel policy.
Sending private messages or notices to individual users or channels is another story. This inconveniences the users and is strictly forbidden.

Why can't I advertise?
This is the most common question advertisers ask when we warn or /kill them for advertising (spamming).
It's pretty simple actually. We have thousands of users on the network. If everyone who wanted to promote their new channel (room) or website started mass advertising to the other users, we would spend all our time closing their stupid private message windows, or trying to read past their unwanted advertising.

How can I get people to my channel/web site/etc.?
This is a valid question and deserves consideration. I will try to offer non-intrusive advertising suggestions here in the future, however I don't really have time to get into it now. The best advice I can offer is to make friends and ask them to join you in building your channel or web site. This takes time, but nobody said it would be easy. Try to use the "golden rule" when considering ways to promote your channel/site ... if you would not want someone else advertising to you in the way you are advertising to them chances are they don't want it either.