Why do you advertise/“spam”/“self-promote” pages from your sites?
Node LinkNextFirst of all note that it is "ableism" as I tend to link to my sites/blogs/domain a lot due to a combination of hypomania and slow typing due to hand paralysis. A lot of people think of blindness or deafness as the only disabilities, but there are many more, including bipolar disorder, Schizophrenia, and even lacking or non-native knowledge of English and other languages. Some Haredi Jews locally block YouTube, due to a Jewish Law prohibition on men hearing female vocalists.
I believe "anti-self-promotion" is a moral fashion popularised by reddit that was not present on Slashdot, or Freecode / Freshmeat, (and still isn't) and which I'll do as much as I can to kill:
Chuck Norris was challenged to fight the world, and accepted. He bet on himself, won, and collected the bet money.
Moreover, some subreddits do not enforce it either, and it makes even much less sense on interactive, real-time, chats.
Also note that the pages on my sites usually do not require registration or login, whitelisting client-side JavaScript or web ads, and they are friendly to lynx, and wget/etc. users. This tweet by me reads:
Dear Mr. Fear, go to hell! You have both crippled my body ( reference ) and made anti-"self-promotion" a trend to stifle my online forum presence. Well, I disbelieve all your lies and am not afraid of being banned.
The verb "to spam" has several meanings and many people equivocate them in order to censor me.
Furthermore, like Ayn Rand in The Fountainhead I believe in karma, and that being nasty, dishonest, unkind, and not generous, to people can bite you further down the road (while being kind, honest, respectful, and generous, returns seven folds). buu almost got himself killed due to frequent online chat hostility and use of IRC force (kicks, devoices, or bans). In addition, a former boss of mine who used to walk in the middle of the roads (hubris) in Gush Dan, got badly injured in a car accident.
(Note that I generally don't need the fear of retaliation to try to be honest and noble to my fellow men. This is because I enjoy being noble. )