Related to

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/86717/defining-the-limits-of-self-promotion

The top two answers to this question were deleted:

http://serverfault.com/questions/100099/there-is-any-monitoring-hosted-solution/100122

The accepted answer's account has 19 of 20 answers deleted, all for promoting the same product, his product from his company. This user was subsequently suspended. **While I don't disagree with this suspension based on the data**, I think in the above specific question those answers are correct:

1. they answer the question

2. they disclose affiliation with the product

I have thus undeleted those particular answers only.

My beef with self-promotional folks isn't the promotion itself -- [this is covered by the faq][1] -- **but that *all* they seem to do on Server Fault is promote their stuff.**

If they had a more balanced mixture of genuine participation, and some REASONABLE, ON-TOPIC, DISCLOSED promotion, then I would not be opposed to it.

I have unsuspended the user in question because he has a number of valid questions at least and I strongly encouraged him to answer this post on meta.

Is there some way we can better educate folks about this before suspending them?

[1]: http://serverfault.com/faq#promotion