What happened to the advice that was just here that your posting looked like a ad for the straightdope chatroom?
what advice Richman? I don’t recall seeing anything to that affect. Was that in a thread here?
Someone said they were told that typing :/join #straightdope
" was seen as an ad for the straightdope chatroom.
You can be banned for advertising, apparently
Now that I think of it, that makes a lot of sense! That is probably the reason why. I guess just typing that in might have made me look like some kind of pornbot or spambot or something.
Aha! The mystery may be solved!