What about the example someone gave of putting up the first chapter and having a link at the bottom to where you can buy the full novel? Jerky, yes, but is it against the rules?
That seems like pretty clear promotion of a commercial product to me.
No commercial promotion means no commercial promotion. No hawking your for-pay fiction. No requests for people to join fandom charity drives. Linking to your homepage would really depend on the actual text you use. I could see that either being 100% ok or a clear case of spam depending on how it was phrased.
Re: Fun with TOSs
That seems like pretty clear promotion of a commercial product to me.
No commercial promotion means no commercial promotion. No hawking your for-pay fiction. No requests for people to join fandom charity drives. Linking to your homepage would really depend on the actual text you use. I could see that either being 100% ok or a clear case of spam depending on how it was phrased.