Voltrovia wrote:More to the point, the convention/rule you mention, as far as I understand it, a) only applies to players who are promoting other games (i.e. adspamming), not advertisements (for which NS have actually been paid to display) and b) only applies to websites/internet-based games.
Yes, this is the case. The site runs plenty of (paid) ads for other games, including Democracy, and this is fine. But we don't allow people to go around creating threads or posting links to advertise their game. We tell them to buy an ad.