No.  I was tempbanned for joyously announcing I'd gotten a *contract* for a

book and then saying, "okay, when it comes out in three years, everybody buy
a few copies, okay?"  This, in your particular idiom, qualified as
"advertising".  But not "real" advertising, as you told me in private mail,
because "real" advertising would have justified a permanent ban.  I tried to
make the point that either it was advertising or not, and if it was, I ought
to be permanently banned, and if it wasn't, I shouldn't have been tempbanned
at all.  You insisted that there were unspecified degrees of advertisement
and that my "ad" wasn't bad enough to merit a permanent ban from the list.

I would submit that in dicey cases, it might be best to discuss this with
the admins first (case in point: two days ago I made an offer to the list -
won't discuss it here - that I've sent to the admins first for approval
before it gets divulged to the list at large).

Why are there no other pro writers on the list?  Why did the ones

we have leave, even though they still write fanworks for anime?

I disagree with this.  I haven't left myself; I've just been in lurker mode.
While I can certainly sympathize about the joys of having your name in
lights (or at least in print on a shelf), don't think that you're the only
one still here.  I may be the only one that has come out of lurking, but I
suspect there are others waiting in the wings as well.

mata ne,
-Rob
 
www.tokyoteleport.com
www.mitsukai.com
www.megamistudios.com


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