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The ultimate parochialism
Yesterday I was bored and signed on to a forum where I am a member but had not been in a long time. One OP had a problem for which we have the solution in a tutorial. So I tried to link the tut in my answer. But the link was automatically destroyed by them inserting >>Spam<< into the middle of the link which made the link useless. Even when I wanted to spell out our forum name in plain text they replaced it by >>Spam<<.
I think this is the ultimate ignorance. I know some forums (including our own) are a bit touchy when it comes to using tutorials from other sources when there is an adequate tutorial on the same subject available. But this experience is too much.
I would think it would be to the advantage of all if the technical forums worked together and that a free exchange of knowledge would be to the benefit of all users. But it looks more like some build the wall of China around their patch - which is too bad.