Hi Gumwah
this site has been going for over 11 years now. When Jay set it up, he basically only had 2 rules.
1. People needed to act, talk and treat each other decently.
2. Other sites won't promote us, so we won't promote them.
Promoting a magazine is not going to diminish our traffic. Promoting a site, whether it be subscription or not, that offers a chat (on WhatsApp) could diminish our traffic. No one at any stage thought you personally stood to benefit from this. I can assure you, if we thought that you would benefit from promoting it, every post referring to it would have been very quickly deleted. This has happened more than once in the past!
We are also very big on people crediting sources of information, as well as providing sources. If someone repeats, copies, quotes information from another site, we expect that site to be credited for being the source. We have had many instances in the past, where posts, or pieces of work, posted by our members, have been copied to rival sites. Very rarely was SCS credited with being the origin of that work! We won't play that game, and insist on credit, where credit is due.
We don't stop people mentioning other sites, but draw the line on them being promoted. The only reason your posts weren't deleted, is there were some discussion amongst the leadership group, as to whether they crossed the line or not. As it wasn't unanimous, in fact it was fairly evenly split, we decided a warning/explanation was at least warranted.
I hope this gives you a better understanding of where we are at.
All the best
Rowsus.