Apologies to all, but it seems there's been a bit of advertising going on in signatures and such.

While I'm not opposed to people having their own sites, (to each their own!), please understand how much time, effort and money I have put into building this site, advertising it and getting it running. This site has been running since 2003 and I have seriously invested hundreds, if not THOUSANDS of dollarsinto it, not to mention my time, creativity and sheer hard work.

It takes a lot to build up trust, to build up hard working members and to have a site that works well, that is friendly and where people can just have a great time, and that's what I like to think this place is.

I have an advertising area, Portkeys, where you can put a link to your site, but please, NO links in signatures and under no circumstances should there be recruiting via PM.
I trust right now that this does not happen, as I consider each and every one of you a friend, but I trust if it did, I would be told and the offender would be banned.

Like anyone, I don't want to see my hard work go to ruin, don't want to see my trusted members that I had to work HARD to find, be simply plucked from my midst.

Please understand. Thank you.