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>>>You'll see what I mean... http://therealmattslay.blogspot.com/2009/09/to-blog-or-to-forum-post-thats-question.html
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>>Both - make a blog and provide a link to it in the forums.
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>You mean post a link to the blog post (like I did above), with only a subject reference and a link, but not all the content? I'm affraid that people might think I am prostituting the forum if I just come here and post a link to my blog.
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>I would surely do that for the first few months (if acceptable), but, am I being too optimistic to think that eventually I could quit making the "I made a blog post" announcement, and hope that people would have me on their list of places to visit every now and then to read a few short topics? Not that I expect to be any great journalistic force, but one can hope.
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>Here's another point I just added to the blog post (after you read it):
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> Plus, after posting to forums and lists, if I need to tweak the info (corrections, add details, etc), it’s too late to edit or just too much work. And, any conversations (comments) about the topic are now spread out across all the different places and there’s no one place other readers can visit to take it all in. Plus, the formatting and image posting in a blog is much better.

I'm not Michel, but here's my take on this:

- post whatever you want in the forums, as long as it doesn't violate terms & conditions
- include a summary of your content, don't post bare links. I don't follow bare links, some people like TracyH do that a lot so I don't read many of their posts anymore
- use permalinks. It's really annoying to try to look up content, and find out the link is to the "current page" of some blog, when "current" was 6 months ago
- keep technical and non-technical content separate. You might also want to consider separating tech content e.g. VFP from .Net etc.

- avoid having any advertising on your site that uses a lot of CPU e.g. animated Flash. I believe some sites/advertisers do this on purpose to make your browser sluggish, so their ad remains in front of your eyeballs longer. Some single banner or spot ads can hog up more than a whole CPU core at GHz+ clock

Things that in my book earn you permanent ban with no recourse:

- if your site gets hacked and your pages start to serve up malware or attempted drive-by installations
- attempts to change browser settings such as changing or maximizing the window size, disabling user inputs such as right-clicks etc.