It has been brought to my attention that there have been someone/a few people who have created zombie accounts (perhaps even by a bot) that are using our forums to spam advertisements.

If you are caught doing this, the account will be deleted and the host it was created from and/or used from banned. This will not be tolerated. These forums are for discussions, not aggravation with ads.

If we want to put ads on the website, we'll run some damned banner ads or something really annoying. However, we do not want to annoy our visitors, so we do not put any ads on our site. If you have an ad and want to place it on this website, well then that's just tough. It won't be on here, so just live with it.

Read the rules. Learn the rules. Obey the rules.

You are required to agree to the rules upon creation of your account, and the consequences for not abiding by them are clearly stated.