Shut down doesn't have to equate to being banned. The thread was locked, or
shut down in the sense you can no longer post to it. We have different opinions about the usefulness of cross posting the same post on multiple forums, all of which are simple reposts from your blog, such is life. Reef Builders gets around 1/2 million unique views a month last I heard so they're doing something right.
Many forums do feel there is something wrong with it Brandon which is why both sites you suggest can go do it
don't. There is nothing wrong with making informative posts, just try to spice them up a bit is what I am mainly suggesting (change them even ever so slightly forum to forum, blog to forum, etc) so it's not the same thing forum after forum. Like you I post on a ton of forums daily. I love helping other reefers be successful. Heck, Kevin is a friend of mine, I'm glad your posting about his experience with the McC's (I'm in line for a pair in fact

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