Other than Cloud Hosting Special Offers forums, marketplace ads are already limited to 1 thread per 7 days per forum.
Unless I do not understand your feedback.
I do agree with you in part, only because I'd love to see more discussion. I do think there are better ways to attract new members other than further restricting advertising in the marketplace though.Hosting ads should be limited to one forum at a time, per company. Perhaps at least a week apart.
I agree with art. Some people offer more than one thing so being able to advertise each product increases the chance of doing well.
another forum i use have like a percentage thingy...
in short, a user has to have x amount of posts a week/month before they can post there offers, on a ratio scale, something like 1 add / per 10 posts... anyway you could do something like this?
what this would do is either, keep the adds down, or get the topics and chatting up...
Just an idea!
Today's login - 7/9 new posts are ads
The ratio idea sounds like the way to go. There is no such thing as a free lunch. You likely would not want someone to "determine" what a "meaningful" post is, maybe just apply a minimum word count to each post in order to qualify as one.